Leah stormed into her small, one bedroom apartment and immediately kicked off her shoes. They hit the ground with a sickening wet sound and splashed water droplets around her feet, adding to the puddles that were rapidly forming on the linoleum floor around her. Leah was shivering slightly and all she wanted to do right now was take a hot shower and collapse into her warm bed.
Lets just say, her day wasn't exactly going as planned...
Leah sighed and stripped off her dripping wet pants as she slowly made her way across her apartment towards the bathroom. Not only had her motorcycle broken down before she even got out of the parking lot of the old dance studio that she taught at, it was also then that the heavens had decided to open up into an absolute downpour of frigid autumn rain. On her way home she'd almost gotten mowed down by a car, and slipped on her way up the stairs into her apartment building. She was definitely going to have quite a nasty bruise on her thigh tomorrow.
The rest of the day hadn't gone extremely well either. One of her - more problematic - students had chosen today to spend the entire class period whining about what she was teaching them that day. Normally, Leah is a pretty patient person, but holy hell, she was simply done by the end of the day when of course, Chase decided to take that time to get under her skin.
She sighed and continued through the kitchen, dropping the sopping wet articles of clothing on the way as she slipped them off. The fact that his teasing really hit the mark today had nothing to do with it.
She absolutely adores her coworker and friend, but goddamn, can he drive her up the fucking wall sometimes. Recently, he and her other friends had been finding entertainment over teasing her about her current romantic status. Leah knew that she wasn't the most subtle when it came to dealing with feelings, and her friends often ended up at the tail end of her rants. She turned the knob of the shower and stepped underneath the cold stream of water and groaned as it started to slowly heat up.
Leah knows that Chase only teases her for fun, and he means no harm, but damn can he grind on her nerves sometimes. He'd hit the tender spot of her love life today, and apparently enjoyed watching her squirm as he prodded her with questions and observations. Sometimes she thinks that he knows her too well for his own good, as well as her sanity's.
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Kitchen Nights
RomanceLeah is a grown woman, and she is definitely NOT pining over her incredibly attractive neighbor. Nope. Not a bit. She also definitely does NOT find herself staying up late to see said neighbor. Nope. Not at all. Said neighbor is also definite...
