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trembling
with excitement and anxiety, “Sorry, I didn’t see you behind
me.”
    Mrs. Thompson looked up from
her pork. “Just an accident. Why don’t you clean up before dinner,
Alex?”
    Alex turned to smile nervously
at Mrs. Thompson. “Yeah, I’ll do that. Excuse me.” Then she
squeezed herself between Jay – who didn’t seem to notice that she
needed some room and wouldn’t move an inch – and the bench and
walked to the door.
    After watching her leaving the
room, Jay said, “I think she’s upset with me.”
    “Oh?” Mrs. Thompson looked at
him with raised brows.
    She liked
doing that, Jayden thought, raising her eyebrows like a judge at
her suspects in court, questioning their innocence. Well damn, she was one after all.
    “I better go and see how she’s
doing since I’m the culprit.” Jay grinned gingerly and left the
kitchen.
    Mrs. Thompson smiled and went
about preparing their dinner, humming to herself.
    Peter came down the stairs just
then and saw Jay heading toward the bathroom along the corridor.
The blonde man swore under his breath and frowned darkly as he
marched towards his intended destination.
    Peter came into the kitchen and
said, “What was that all about?”
    Mrs. Thompson looked up at her
son. “What?”
    Peter shook his head and
changed the subject. “Renovation not going too well.”
    “Why?” Mrs. Thompson asked.
    “They found mould in the
bedroom. We have to take down all the walls. Tracy’s not happy.” He
sighed.
    “Of course she’s not happy,”
Mrs. Thompson replied. “They’re pulling down her house.”
    Peter watched his mum returning
to her work. He thought Tracy, his fiancée, was not very happy at
all. They had started doing this house renovation thing for three
months now and there seemed to be no progress at all. The bills
just kept coming in and piling up but no proper work had been done
as yet. What a headache this all was. And to top it all off he
missed Tracy dearly, even thought it had only been three weeks
since he had last seen her back in Sydney. He was counting down the
days when he’d be able to see her again, which was in two weeks
time. Then there was the fact that he didn’t really want to bother
his parents for too long, crashing in their house while his own was
being renovated. He knew they needed space – even though this house
was very big and can accommodate an army – and he and Tracy
themselves wanted their own space. It was so much better that
way.
     
     
    ***
     
     
    JAYDEN WANDERED ALONG the
hallway, cursing himself severely. Jeez he was such a jerk. What
the hell was wrong with him? Why was he showing so much interest
towards Alex? And why did he have to stand so close to her just
then?
    No wait. Pause right there, hot
shoot!
    Oh yeah, he knew why. That was
because she smelt great, like spring or something. He wasn’t able
to help himself because he had wanted to smell her again after she
had squeezed past him through the entrance door into the hallway.
It wasn’t a strong, perfumery smell like most of the women he knew
wore back in New York, but rather a subtle scent – just a hint of
lovely floral that had pricked his interest. Just a hint that had
made him wanted to inhale more.
    He reached the bathroom door,
put one hand on the knob, and knocked lightly a couple of times
with the other. When he heard no reply, he opened the door slightly
and popped his head in.
    He saw her busy cleaning
herself with some Kleenex. She had her jersey off, which was lying
on the floor. She was wearing only her white singlet and her skinny
jeans.
    Looking from behind he thought
she looked slim. He had thought that she looked too thin back at
the hospital, he realised otherwise she looked just right for her
height.
    He cleared his throat.
    He received no response. He
knew she probably didn’t hear him because she was too busy frowning
at her stained singlet. Jay had no doubt that she didn’t like the
look of that dark beer stain on the very