Total pages in book: 92
Estimated words: 85255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 426(@200wpm)___ 341(@250wpm)___ 284(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 85255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 426(@200wpm)___ 341(@250wpm)___ 284(@300wpm)
“Yeah, it’s his favorite movie.”
“Did you by any chance tell him you love huge houses and expensive cars?” Kayla jokes and we both burst into a fit of giggles.
Day three post-Cooper and I haven’t received a package yet. I wonder how he is doing all this. If he is sending them daily or if he did all this before he left. To be honest, I don’t even want to know. It feels magical and I don’t want to lose that feeling.
Kayla and I decide to go down to the restaurant in the resort for dinner. When we’re done eating and ready to get the bill, the waiter brings me out a Crème brûlée. Before he walks too far away, I call him back over.
“Excuse me. I didn’t order this.”
“Yes, I know. It was supposed to be delivered to your room this evening, but since you’re dining with us, I thought you might like it now.”
It hits me that I told Cooper this was my favorite dessert.
“By any chance is there a note to go with it?”
“Yes, ma’am. I was supposed to attach it to the receipt. I can go get it now.”
A few minutes later he comes back with the note and hands it to me.
I wish I were there with you sharing this dessert. I bet it tastes delicious but not half as delicious as you. –Coop
Kayla slowly shakes her head after I hand her the note to read. “Geez Liz, this guy clearly has it bad for you. Maybe one of these will include his number.”
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but in the back of my mind I’ve been thinking the same thing.
The last two days of our trip pass by quickly. The day after I got the dessert, a huge blanket for the beach is delivered to our room with a note that says To keep the sand away. No phone number.
The last day of our trip I wonder if there’ll be a gift. We’re checking out at ten to head home and say bye to our families before we head to Las Vegas, so it would have to be delivered before we leave. At ten, nothing has arrived yet, so we go to the front desk to check-out and that’s when the woman asks which one of us is Liz.
“Um, I am.”
“This is for you.”
I grab the box and pray there’ll be a number inside. Removing the top, I find a beautiful white gold necklace and charm. I look closer at the charm and it’s a pair of boxing gloves. I lift them up to look for a note and find it, only there isn’t a phone number.
To always remember me xo – Coop
“Boxing gloves?” Kayla asks. “Another question?”
“It must be. He said he likes mixed-martial-arts.”
I hand it to Kayla and ask her to put it on me. Once it’s on, I grab the boxing gloves, bring them up to my lips, and think to myself, I will never forget you, Coop. I don’t even think that’s possible.
Five
Liz
For the third day in a row I’m bent over the toilet throwing up everything in my stomach while Kayla holds my hair back and earns her best friend title.
“Ugh! Do you think it was something we ate at the Chinese restaurant last night?”
“Liz, if it were food poisoning, you wouldn’t be throwing up for days. I really think you need to go see a doctor. It could be the flu.”
I know she’s right. It’s time to make a doctor’s appointment. I stop throwing up long enough to go to my room to find my insurance card and locate a doctor in our area.
Our apartment is so cute and bigger than we expected. Kayla’s parents went all out renting us a three-bedroom apartment walking distance from campus. We both have our own room and the third bedroom is used as an office to do our schoolwork. It has a computer desk and a super cute futon that can turn into a bed if we have somebody stay over.
It has been over a month since we’ve left Miami and I’m not going to lie, Cooper has been on my mind. But it doesn’t matter because only knowing his first name means I have no way of finding him, and since he doesn’t know my last name, he isn’t going to be locating me any time soon either. As much as I wish things had ended differently, there’s no point in regretting something I can’t change. All I can do at this point is just chalk it up to an awesome experience and move forward.
Kayla made me dish out the details and said I’m lucky I was with a guy who actually knew what he was doing. Orgasming the first couple times she had sex didn’t happen for her and she was in shock at how many times he got me there. Any guy who comes after Cooper will definitely have a lot to live up to.