It had been a long, difficult day for the both of us and she had arrived home just before I walked into my apartment. My phone rang almost the moment I put my wallet down. After seeing Dianna’s name, I felt the first smile in hours cross my face, “Are you stalking me?” I snarked good naturedly after connecting the call.
“You wish,” Di said with a happy sigh. “It’s good to hear your voice after the day I’ve had. What are you doing? Can you come by?”
I walked into the kitchen as she was speaking and opened the fridge to see a whole lot of nothing that appealed to me. “I will if we can eat from that Chinese place down the road from you. I just got home and I’m starving.”
“Perfect, I’m in no mood to screw around with making anything,” Di replied.
“How about just screwing around then?” I teased.
“Like I said Dare, ‘You wish’”, she laughed. Only she calls me Dare. I’m Darren to everyone else. “I’ll see you soon “