The Game of A Life Time

Chapter 50- Skyfall

"With school starting soon, I will be working Fridays and weekends as long with after class stuff in the evening."

Belle decided she wanted to become a teacher for elementary kids. She got half her degree then her mom got sick and stopped going to class.

She will be drowning in debt soon enough and this job pays fairly well. Her rate will be around twenty an hour and is paid every week. From weekends to evening shifts she would accumulate about twelve hundred a week. Rent for the both of us is twelve hundred and we are splitting it down the middle with other things like groceries.

Plus if she works on holidays, she gets double the amount of pay. Things will be looking up for her, I am still on the fence of jobs.

Selling pills, weed, or any illegal substance is fast cash, but this is a new start. I want to be good, work for my money the right way. Nevertheless, I will keep doing side work, but it won't be my main income. I need to find something quick.

***

I get out of the shower in time for dinner. Belle made spaghetti, her go to meal when she is lazy to cook anything. Don't get me wrong I love spaghetti and I also cook from time to time, but Belle has this thing about people being in her kitchen.

We invested in the couch and chairs we found at Sears, they came in today and I took the time to set them up for her while she was gone. Belle was impressed with my work.

"Dinner is way overdue, I am starving." She brings two plates over to the couch, "you couldn't have put on a shirt?"

"It's humid out," is my excuse.

She sits down and eats her spaghetti in silence. I pretend I don't see the glances she takes over my naked chest, she has an attraction toward me.

Belle has had one since Grass Valley, I saw it when we met at the coffee shop. Of course, I didn't play into it, I had Sarah. She is my girlfriend, was my girlfriend. Even if we aren't together anymore, I still feel the connection there.

There always will be a connection whether I like it or not.

"I got to get going before the bar closes the tabs" there is a pickup tonight at seven and I can't miss it.

She breaks away from the couch, "I thought you were done with that?"

"I am slowly breaking off until I get better income." She sits the plate ont he counter, "I would prefer if you worked on cars like last time."

Picking up a shirt from my room, "me too. But until then, I need to do this."

"Just be careful, okay?" Her words are sincere, "no more fighting with people over petty things."

Before I walk out through the door, she stops me with her arms holding me in. I look down an inch to meet her eyes, she seems conflicted.

They trail down my face to my lips, she wants to kiss me.

I shouldn't let it happen, crawl away from this and run. I can't do it, she looks desperate as if this is all she has worked for.

Desire wins, I pull her in to initiate the kiss. Her lips mold against mine, I feel the tension drop from her shoulders once we make contact.

A simple kiss.

She pulls back, "you should go."

"I'll be back soon."

SARAH POV

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

This is where we start our new lives. The house is average, three bedroom, three bathrooms,a basement, an office space, and a deck that leads to a patch of small woods behind the house. More than what I would think my dad would want, but less than my mother. It would have been a compromise.