Give and Go

Chapter 29 A Fresh Start

Two weeks later Kit was wondering what was going on around her. The girls in the club seemed especially giggly and Justin seemed to be up to something. He kept slipping into his office.

It was a typical Friday night at the club, other than the odd behavior of those around her.

Then closing time came and Kit noticed that some of the regulars weren't leaving.

"Is it time to tell her?" Jasper asked, "I'm dying here!!"

"Come on Kit!" Justin said, leading her to his office.

When Justin opened the office door, Kit gasped. The office was completely changed. She had just cleaned it Tuesday night. In the days since, Justin had completely removed all the furniture and the entire room was transformed.

Gone was the giant sectional. There was a tasteful, leather sofa. It had been arranged on the same side of the large room as the bar, sound system and television. There was also a large cherry wood armoire on that side of the room and an oval coffee table. That side of the room had been arranged to look like a cozy living room.

Justin came up behind her, putting his arms around her. "That sofa makes into a bed." Then he walked to the armoire and opened it. "The bedding is in these drawers." He opened an empty drawer, "this drawer is mine. This one is yours. I still think it's a good idea to be prepared to stay here if the weather gets ugly or something, but you will be the only woman to ever see that bed. I swear."

Kit felt her throat catch. Tears threatened. He knew. When she didn't want to stay here, he understood.

She turned, trying to not cry and ruin the moment when she spotted the desks. Two. Smaller than the original desk had been. Sitting side by side. Both made of cherry wood, both had cherry wood shelves behind them,

On the wall above one shelf was a photo of Kit and Justin at the Christmas party. Blown up so it covered the entire area above the shelves.

Kit looked around the room. On the wall above the new sofa was the picture of Kit with the unicorn. It had been painted onto a canvas and was huge!

"I hope you're OK with that." Justin said. "I fell in love with that picture. I ordered that the very next day. They got it done about a week ago."

"Why are there two desk?" Kit asked.

"One is yours. This is half your office now. You can change it however you want!" Justin said, then added, "well. I'd kinda like it if you let me keep the pictures."

He looked at Kit to find large tears streaming down her face.

"Yep! I knew that was coming!" He laughed and handed her a tissue. "It's happy tears right? Please say you're happy!"

Kit threw herself into Justin's arms. "You're the most wonderful man on the planet. I was being so dumb and I knew I was being dumb, but you did all this anyway. It's wonderful. Thank you so much!"

"You weren't being dumb Kit." Justin said, kissing her tears. "And I needed to change things. That office was a bachelor pad. I need a place for us. That's what this is. It's our place. You can come here anytime you want now."

"You are amazing." Kit said.

"Well that was just step one of me being amazing!" Justin grinned, "now for step two! Oh! Don't worry about curfew. I called your mom!"

"And told her what? " Kit asked, mystified.

"That you were having your first ever girls' slumber party!" Justin said, just as they got back to the club and Kit found her four favorite regular customers and five female servers eating pizza with Jasper.