Chapter 41 - Charlie
Unsteady - X Ambassadors?
Two months since that night
“W ell, I would call that a success, Mel. I think it's pretty clear that we're making Ride em’ Cowgirl a monthly staple,” I say, wiping the sweat off my brow.
The warmer weather and the extra people in the bar tonight has got me sweating like a fat kid in a candy store, and for the first time in a while I feel okay.
“He's going to roll out of his hospital bed when he hears what you've done,” she says, laughing at me.
We both live in this place where Porter is just away on a business trip or a long weekend. Well, more like I live in that place and she entertains it for the most part. I am not a businesswoman and neither is Mel but between us, we're making it work.
I've taken over the paperwork side of things and she helps with the stock and ordering. I'm forever grateful for her help because I accidentally ordered one hundred gin bottles from the supplier and she wasn't having any of it. Calling the guy and telling him he wasn't going to try that shit and if she had to march down to his office and waterboard him with the gin herself he was going to take the return.
I'm surrounded by him here and I love it. His apartment, his office, the cellar . They’re all reminders of us and I know I made the right decision by coming back.
Coming home.
Continuing the life we barely started together so there's something for him to return to.