Impulsive (Reach out to Me) by Christine McGreggor Page A

she and Hayes have made me feel unwelcome. After she settles down from that she’ll probably be worried about my budget.” Kara chuckled. “I’m so glad I’ll have this to show her! When she stops worrying, she’ll be happy, I’m sure.”
     
                  “You two certainly do know each other well,” Thomas said, amused by her concise explanation of a conversation that hadn’t even taken place yet.
     
                  Kara shrugged and kissed him once more before she gathered her papers.
     
                  “I’ll see you tomorrow at work,” she said before giving in to the urge and kissing him once more.
     
                  “Bright and early?” he joked. He always got to the office ten minutes before her on the days they arrived separately.
     
                  “9:05 is bright and early enough,” Kara answered before mussing his hair up and jogging for the door. “Bye!”
     
                  “Bye,” he called after her.
     
                  He started to fix his hair and then gave a mental shrug. It was fine the way it was. He wasn’t going anywhere and he liked remembering how her fingers felt when they moved through it. What he liked even more was the uninterrupted chance to do his homework for the week and get started on his preparations for his big project at work. He was a lot later on it than he wanted to be.

Chapter Twelve
     
                  “Michelle?” Kara called out as she walked into the house.
     
                  She didn’t get an answer, but a quick look around told her that her friend was out in the garden.
     
                  “Hi Kara,” Michelle said when she walked up. “I didn’t expect you to be home tonight.”
     
                  Kara smiled. “All play and no work,” she said, letting the sentence trail off. “Want some help with that?”
     
                  Michelle was on her knees weeding the vegetable bed. She looked really adorable in her gardening clothes and her big hat.
     
                  “Sure,” she said agreeably. “Grab some gloves and get to work.”
     
                  Kara did as Michelle said and they pulled weeds in companionable silence for a while.
     
                  “Michelle,” she said when they were near the end of the row. “I’m going to rent an apartment and move out before you and Hayes get married.”
     
                  “What?” Michelle dropped the weed she’d just pulled and looked at her friend in shock. “Oh Kara you don’t have to do that! I know Hayes still has his apartment until the end of the month, but we basically already live together and we don’t have a problem with you being here! Have we done something to make you feel unwanted?”
     
                  “No,” Kara hurried to say. Michelle seemed a little more distressed than she’d imagined. “Not at all. You and Hayes have always made me feel like part of the family. Please don’t think this is anything either of you did.”
     
                  “Well, okay,” Michelle said after taking a moment to calm down. “If you’re sure it isn’t that you feel like you’re in the way I won’t try to stop you.” She looked like she was trying to think of the best way to phrase the next question.
     
                  “You’re worried about how I’m going to afford it?” Kara asked.
     
                  Michelle blushed and nodded as she lightly bit her lower lip and gave a shrug as she said, “Kara, you’re my best friend and I love you, but you are not always the most level headed person when it comes to money.”
     
                  “Believe me, I know,” she said with a grimace as she recalled the amazement on Thomas’s face when she’d shown him her monthly expenditures. “That’s why