It was bliss. Sure, any couple had their misgivings and difficulties but that was completely expected. But the better part was that they came back from it, made up and well, whoever invented make-up sex was a genius because it’s probably the best kind. Sometimes she liked to think they fought just to have the brilliant make-up sex. But that didn’t mean that’s all it was. No, because over the two years that they had been together since their very rocky start, Harper loved Hawthorne even more each day that went by. She probably fell for him officially not even after their first month together, of their first month in meeting, since her mom died and the whole thing with Sly. She just didn’t actually say it until she knew for sure, or rather until Hawthorne said it.
They got their own place together, once the lease on her apartment she had shared with her late roommate Stephanie was up. Two years later and she was a well known teacher at the elementary school she taught at. She adored the kids. They were sweet, crazy and probably every reason to not have her own kids but then again, Harper wasn’t the kind to be afraid that easily—especially after all that she and Hawthorne went through in the beginning of their budding relationship—and also not one of those who only thought her own kids/potential kids were cute. She loved all kids. She always did. Even if she often had to take some aspirin to quell her headaches at the end of the day, it was all worth it. She found a boyfriend who gave her plenty of head rubs. That was always her number one requirement, among other silly things.
That day, she had come home from yet another grueling day of the third grade. She wasn’t teaching kindergarten anymore but third grade. She was happy to. Plus third grade and fifth grade were always her favorite years aside from kindergarten in elementary school. While they didn’t have openings in fifth grade, they did in third grade and she got her qualifications for it. Except that day, she didn’t come home to a headache, thankfully. But she was busy in preparing dinner for the day. What sold her on their new home was the kitchen. What could she say? She was a woman who loved to cook and based the entire decision of whether or not she wanted to live in a place because of the kitchen. It’s why she was willing to pay an arm and a leg—then—for the apartment she had lived in with Stephanie and it was why she wanted this place.