Jacob
Oddly enough, I wasn’t nervous as I headed up to Alastair’s front door. I was hopeful that things were headed in the right direction. I couldn’t help but smile and blush as I thought about Alastair showing up, unexpectedly, at my workplace just to ask me out. The rest of the day had felt like I had been up on a cloud. My jaw hurt from all the smiling, and I hadn’t been able to save one cookie. The flowers were now in my kitchen and while I knew Naomi had probably made the arrangement, it was still beautiful. It didn’t matter who knew about us. I wanted everyone to know. I knocked on the door and I could hear Alastair moving around on the other side. It was just after six, and it had taken everything in me not to rush over to his place the second, I left work. The door flung open, an
