There’s Pumpkin About You

by Athena Carstairs

“With any guys you dated, did you never get that feeling? That intense need to hide all the things that made you insecure so that he’d see only the best in you?” “No? I was just myself.” He looked at the ground as he softly chuckled to himself. His hands slipped from my shoulders. “Then you’ve never been in love.”

“Not true,” he argues. “Oh, really? Tell me one thing so far that has worked in your favor. You’re still behind on the harvest and the paperwork and you have an incomplete barn. What the hell could you have gained?” “I gained you, idiot.”

. I don’t feel that I have to try really hard to please him because he just easily accepts all the parts of myself and I, him.

A smirk stretches my lips as I lean down towards her, letting my nose kiss hers. “Sweetheart?” “Yes?” she whispers. I move my lips to her ear, “I need you to come home with me.”

I want to be the kind of person that Wren needs, however that might look to her. If she needs space, it’ll probably kill me but I’ll move to the next goddamn town if that’s what it takes. If she needs a hug, I’ll never let go unless I need to use the bathroom. If she needs a pep talk, I’ll ask someone to teach me how. Whatever she needs, I will be.

“I brought us right where we need to be.” In one swift move, his t-shirt is gone. “I was taught that you always eat at the table.”