Not too much longer now, maybe a couple of hours.” The way his accent slid over his words was curiously intoxicating to me. His eyes were warm and a deep, dark brown and were currently turned in my direction to sparkle at me. I loved to do this for him, and he adoringly let me, sighing and complaining the whole while that he was just going to shave it off one day.
His hair was a dark, dark brown, and he liked to have it lightly styled into chunky but orderly pieces. He wasn’t overly tall for a guy, but he was taller than me, even when I wore heels, and that was enough. No, in a more natural, proportioned, athletic way. He was originally from a small town in Queensland, Australia, and a lifetime spent in the water at that exotic locale had left him tanned and muscular, but not in a beefy kind of way. I know, it’s not the manliest way to describe a guy, but in my head, it was the adjective I used most often and it fit him to a tee. The reason for my transfer was sitting beside me, driving us away in his beat-up Honda. I had landed a pretty nice scholarship, though, and that had definitely helped to sway my parents. What had shocked them even more, if that were possible, was the fact that I was transferring nearly twenty-five hundred miles away to Washington-more specifically, the University of Washington in Seattle. Therefore, it had been a terrible family tragedy when, a few months ago, during my second year there, I’d made plans to transfer out in the fall. It was never discussed among our little foursome, but it was a known-from-birth fact, that my sister and I would be attending and graduating from Ohio University. I had been born and raised there, along with every other member of my family. My boyfriend and I were driving away from Athens, Ohio. I’m assuming that’s if you’re superhuman and never need a pit stop, of course. According to MapQuest, it was roughly thirty-seven hours and eleven minutes long. Still, by anyone’s standards, the drive was absurdly long. That really wasn’t saying a whole lot, since I had never driven more than sixty miles away from my hometown. It was the longest drive I had ever been on.
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