Day Three

After that unexpected revelation, it was a bit awkward between us. I could tell Kaylee wanted to talk about it, but it was hard with her Dad joining us. I was still sore from yesterday, but I wasn’t about to let that stop me from hitting the slopes. I found that I was falling a lot less. Usually, the only thing that got me now was if I hit a patch of powdered snow when I wasn’t expecting it. Each run, I got more confident. Seeing Kaylee and her Dad effortlessly gliding along made me jealous and a little guilty I was slowing them down, but there wasn’t anything I could do about that. It was a gulf of experience that wasn’t going to change.

We finally got our chance when her dad went to go meet her mom for lunch. Kaylee said she wanted to do a few more before grabbing something to eat. I knew she was using it as an excuse to talk to me privately.

“About last night,” she started in a soft voice. We had been plodding along when she suddenly stopped.

“Don’t worry about it. We say and do crazy things in the moment. Besides, we weren’t dating then.” I took a sip of the coffee I’d been lugging around the past five minutes. Thing was still too hot to drink.

“I still feel bad.”

“And I’m telling you not to. Anyways, it was certainly… interesting.” That was a piss-poor use of the word. Maybe if I put ‘morbidly’ it would be more accurate.

She tilted her head, staring at me. “How so?”

I was a bit embarrassed at her inquisitive stare. “You seemed… different.”

Thinking for a moment, she shook her head. “That’s about the usual.”

“Really?” She nodded. “That wasn’t the Kaylee I know. You are usually more…” Her eyebrow quirked as she waited for me to continue. I sputtered a bit as my brain finally caught up with what I was saying.

“Usually more… what?”

“Passionate?” I said, knowing my face was as red as hers was last night. “I don’t know. You didn’t seem too into it.”

Her stare only fanned my embarrassment and I found it hard to continue looking at her. “Want to watch another tonight?” She looked as embarrassed asking me as I was saying yes.