Forever & an Engine by C. J. Fallowfield Read Free Book Online

about
swimming practice?’
    ‘What about
it?’
    ‘Gabe you
can’t miss it again, you’ve missed the last two weeks. Don’t think I didn’t
notice you and Doug skipped last weeks session on Sunday to spend it with Lexi
and I.’
    ‘I’m not
missing it this time, we’ve been given the day off as we did so well on Friday,
so you’re stuck with me for the whole day. I’d like to get some lengths in here
though if that’s ok?’
    ‘Of course
it is, I don’t want to get in your way.’
    ‘You’re
never in my way. Come on, we can go and settle in for the first film and then
we can order the food. Do you want any wine?’
    ‘No thank
you,’ I looked at him puzzled, I’d not expected him to encourage me drinking. ‘I
had enough to drink last night. Do you have any coke?’
    ‘Diet coke,’
he nodded.
    ‘I’ll have
juice then, I hate that diet shit,’ I grinned and he just shook his head in
despair.
    We went
down to the kitchen and he grabbed a glass bottle of diet coke from the fridge
and poured me a tall glass of apple juice and gave me a small bar of galaxy and
laughed as I smiled at him.
    ‘Mia it’s
for you to eat, not for me to eat out of you this time. Here can you manage the
drinks and head down, I’ll be there in a minute.’
    ‘Ok, but
while we’re on the topic of eating we need to have serious words.’
    ‘About
what?’
    ‘This,’ I
said pointing to my neck.
    ‘What about
it?’
    ‘What about
it?! I hate them. Please don’t do it again, they’re common and tacky.’
    ‘It’s an
expression of love,’ he shrugged.
    ‘Gabe
Austin, love has nothing to do with it. It’s an expression of territorial
marking and I’m not your possession. Don’t do it again please.’ I
smacked his bottom really hard as I walked past and he jumped and cursed.
    ‘Damn it
Mia that hurts .’
    I giggled,
how could he be so big and tough and find a slap on the bottom painful? I
skipped down to the cinema and climbed into the double chair on the front row
and discovered that the arms of the chairs lifted up and there were recesses to
stand your drinks in. I had a bite of the galaxy as I waited for him.
    ‘Ok baby, we’re
good to go. I’ve loaded them and have the remote, so which do you want to want
to watch first?’ he asked as he sat down next to me and put his arm around me.
    ‘Well I
vote for Alan, we could do with a laugh,’ I said as snuggled into his side.
    ‘Alan it
is.’ Using just the remote he dimmed the lights and turned on the screen and
selected Alan Partridge from the menu. He put the remote in the arm rest and
played with the chair buttons so the foot rest section came right up and he
lowered us back slightly until I nodded that I was good. I jumped as the music
came on, it was full surround sound and he looked at me and smiled when he saw my
wide eyes and how excited I was. I grabbed his face and kissed him and ate more
chocolate as it started. The 90 minute film actually took us nearly two hours
as we were laughing so much. I was crying and hyperventilating and Gabe kept
having to press the pause button to let me get some control back.
    ‘O god
Gabe, I haven’t laughed like that for so long. Thank you.’ I threw my arms
around his neck and kissed him.
    ‘You’re so
easily pleased Mia,’ he grinned as he kissed me back. We lay kissing for a
while and as I clutched his hair he pulled back gasping and turned up the
lights. ‘You’re trying to seduce me again aren’t you?’
    ‘Honestly
what other guy would complain if his girlfriend wanted sex?’
    ‘I love
that you want sex all the time, but I told you that it was off the table and you’re
trying to break me.’
    ‘So, even
if I was I also just love kissing you even with no sex involved. We kissed for
ages in the taxi last night and I really enjoyed it.’
    ‘You
remember that?’ he asked astonished.
    ‘Of course
I do.’
    ‘Jesus, I
thought you were really pissed.’
    ‘I was.’
    ‘So how can
you remember that and