Going Home

Part 131

That evening Josh was ready to leave and was waiting for Grace. He generally had to wait for her, not his favourite thing to do at the best of times, but tonight he was nervous about having his parents at the dinner and it was making him more impatient that usual. Finally having had enough of waiting he called out “Grace come on, what could possibly be taking so long?”

But as he finished the sentence, he reached the end of his pacing route and turning, saw Grace standing in the door way. She looked amazing and for a minute he had to remember how to breathe. Her hair was swept up and she was wearing a short black dress that showed off her lovely curves and her gorgeous legs, lengthened by the very high black high heels on her feet. The only jewelry she had on was a watch on her left wrist and the diamond pendant he had given her that morning. Pulling him self together and without taking his eyes off her he slowly moved towards her. “Forget I said anything.”

“So does that mean it was worth the wait?” Grace teased with a smile.

 “Well worth the wait.” Josh said inspecting her from head to foot. “You look gorgeous.”

Her smile widening Grace performed an inspection of her own as he approached. She took in his black pants and white shirt with the sleeves rolled up “thank you so do you” she said.

Giving her a half smile, on reaching her Josh slid his hands over her hips and locked his fingers together at her back. Bending down he kissed her. As her arms went around his neck Josh broke the contact with her mouth and pulling her tighter against his body, held her.

As she hugged him back Grace could feel the tension in his body and guessing he was worried about tonight she whispered “it’ll be fine Josh.”

Pulling back, Josh looked down at her marveling at how she always knew what he was thinking. He said “yeah?”

“Absolutely” Grace said without hesitation. “Margaret and Robert have met most of my family now and they get on well with Mum and Dad so stop worrying.”

Josh considered this for a minute then nodded “okay, lets go.”