A Kiss to Build a Dream On | Evander & Daisy | August 25, 2016
Daisy had never anticipated that a breakup could be so expensive. She was starting to think Taney was right, that the fact that the breakup happened before they got married was a small blessing. She couldn’t imagine also having to pay for a divorce attorney. Since the split, a lot of money had been funneled into living in a hotel, buying a house, pints of ice cream, and that speeding ticket she got that one day when she was crying and driving down the highway. That had not exactly been her finest moment. She had sold most of her furniture from her old apartment after she moved in with Axel, having assumed that she would never need it again. Now she found herself furnishing her new house practically from scratch as she desperately tried to make it feel like home.
Luckily she was able to get a rush delivery on the most essential pieces, so she had a place to sleep and a couch to sit on. The house still felt quite bare even with all her boxes piled everywhere. Ordinarily, she would have waited until she had unpacked and furnished the place to have guests, but she doubted that Evander would mind that it was mostly empty since she had fully stocked the fridge. He was probably hungrier than he even realized considering he hadn’t properly fed himself since rehearsals began. She texted him her new Beverly Hills address and busied herself with setting out all the food so they could cook. She had picked up steak with a bunch of different sides after realizing that it took six hours to cook pot roast and they did not have time for that.
While she waited for Evander she tried to quiet the butterflies that fluttered in her stomach. They were taking things slowly, step by step, and that she didn’t mind because it had felt like a huge weight lifted off her shoulders to know he felt the same way about her. But the anticipation before each time that she saw him made her giddy and excited like a teenage girl with a huge crush. She wasn’t one hundred percent healed and whole again but she was working on getting there. She didn’t believe in needing someone else to fix her, but she wouldn’t want to give herself over to another person again without being all taped and put back together. So despite the part of her that so wanted so desperately to just kiss him when he finally arrived, she told herself to be good and instead reached out for a hug.
“Look, I did it!” she exclaimed when she pulled back to look up at his handsome face, her arms still wrapped around his waist. “I bought a house!” She took a good look at him, trying to assess if he was practically starving himself, before finally letting him go and practically skipping back to the kitchen, her mood immediately improved now that he was here. “Come, I’ll show you the kitchen and we can stick that champagne in my fancy new fridge. And while food is cooking I’ll give you the grand tour! Plus you have to tell me all about the first week of rehearsals.”
