Glimmer (Glimmer and Glow 1) - Page 92

Just like a lot of things felt with Dylan.

“There’s an east-facing balcony. This area is known for our sunsets over the lake, but if you can see over the tree line, the sunrises are nice, too. The view is good up here.”

“You sound like you watch the sunrise there a lot,” Alice said, stepping through a door on the fourth floor when Dylan opened it.

“Not a lot, but I’ve told you I’m not the best of sleepers.”

Alice didn’t respond, because they were on an even narrower staircase now, going from the third to the fourth floor, the wooden steps squeaking loudly beneath their bare feet. She opened the door at the top of the stairs and they walked into the inky-black, warm night. The light from the opened doors allowed her to navigate across a long twelve-foot-deep terrace.

“A swing,” she exclaimed, ignoring several Adirondack chairs and making a beeline for a large wooden porch swing suspended from the eaves. She plopped down on the swing, careful not to spill her coffee. She caught Dylan’s small smile as he came to sit next to her.

“Little girls always love a swing,” he said, pushing with his feet so that they swayed gently.

“This big girl does, anyway,” Alice said, grinning. The ropes squeaked in the hooks above them, the sound cozy and somehow relaxing as it resounded into the darkness of predawn. “It’s old,” she observed, running her fingertips along the worn wood.

“Yeah. I’ve been meaning to have it repainted,” Dylan said, his arm going around her. Alice snuggled up next to him, her cheek pressing against his T-shirt-covered chest. She still felt a little sleepy, but also very content.

“White,” Alice said quietly, the sound of the squeaking swing lulling her.

“Hmmm?” Dylan asked, his hand cupping her shoulder. Alice noticed distractedly that although his query sounded casual, he’d halted taking a sip of his coffee mid-motion.

“You should paint the porch swing white,” Alice clarified. “And put pots of flowers along there,” she said, waving her coffee cup along the white posts of the balcony. She took a sip of her coffee. “That’s how it should be.”

“I see,” Dylan said before he lifted his coffee cup to his lips. Even though he sounded very sober, Alice was sure he was humoring her dozy flight of fancy.

“The sky is starting to lighten a little,” Alice murmured a moment later, her gaze on the tree line. The birds had started their predawn chatter. “I think I’ll call Maggie later today.”

One long finger reached and caressed her neck. “What made you think of Maggie?”

“I don’t know,” she mumbled, turning her face into his T-shirt and inhaling the delicious scent of clean cotton and Dylan. “I guess it’s because this has been the longest I haven’t talked to her since I moved into her place a few years ago.”

“You guys talk regularly?”

“Yeah. We talked at school, of course, in Maggie’s lab. But we usually had dinner together at her house, and we’d watch TV and stuff.” She kissed his chest before taking another sip of coffee. “I miss Doby,” she reflected after a moment.

“Doby, the flea-ridden dog who hates the vet?”

She looked up into his face, beaming. “You remember I told you that?”

He shrugged. “Apparently,” he said with a small smile. Their gazes held. “Maggie sounds like she’s family to you,” he said, stroking the shell of her ear.

Alice thought

about that for a moment.

“She is, I guess. She’s been very good to me. If it weren’t for her, I don’t think I could have gotten through graduate school. You’d think she won a spot as a Camp Durand counselor herself, as proud as she’s been about me getting in here.”

“She’s almost like a mother.”

Alice blinked. “Maybe. Sort of. Certainly more of a mother than I’ve ever had,” she laughed shortly. “What about you?” she asked tentatively after a moment, taking a sip of coffee and straightening.

“You better not be thinking I’m like a mother figure.”

She laughed at that. As if. “No, I mean … do you ever see your mom? You never talk about family.”

“That’s because I don’t have any.”

“None? You don’t have brothers or sisters?”

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