Chapter 10

Waking up single wasn't really an experience I can say I had enjoyed. Granted, Nicole and I had only been going out for about a month, but it had been a nice month for me. I'd gotten to know her more both as a person and as a girlfriend. It had come as a surprise that things were over, but at least it hadn't been too bad. She was a nice girl, so I'm sure she had made it a point of doing her best to let me down easy. One thing I did try to think about as my day started though; that despite how things ended I did still want to have her as a friend. There was also the obvious fact that I would miss the physical aspects of it. I don't know what guy wouldn't, in that situation.

The first real thing I did though was to take the dog out for his walk. I'd gotten dressed in a pair of gym shorts and a simple t-shirt to do it, it was one of the race t-shirts from a 5k I'd done as part of our cross country season from the previous year. Once I had the dog back in I decided going for a run was a good idea. I didn't take any music with me this time; I just wanted some time to be able to pound the pavement and to think. Options: I actually had a few, or so I thought as I ran. The first, I could take some time off from the dating scene to make sure my feelings were sorted out after my time with Nicole. The second, I could see if something would happen with Tonya. The third, I could take a friend of mine up on her offer to do a double-date with her boyfriend and a girl she knew.

Each of those had advantages, I thought. If I took time off I might be in a better state of mind for the next girl that I tried to go out with. The question with that was whether I was truly in a bad place or not. Sure, I was hurting a little bit, but it wasn't like I was in love with Nicole or anything like that. The experience had been a good thing, though. A month's time and I'd grown in that short time. I'd learned that I could actually spend time with a girl in a relationship and not make a fool out of myself. Granted I was still at heart an awkward feeling 16 year old but that didn't mean I had to make it obvious.

As the run went I just let my thoughts go, using the distraction of my thoughts to start pushing the pace up a little. A quick glance at my watch showed I'd been running for about 15 minutes now and had covered roughly 2 miles so far. I'd run the area enough to have set routes I could go depending on the distance. Today's workout was looking like it would only be a 4 mile workout maybe. I hadn't been running as much lately and it was showing in my conditioning now. I'd still been able to hit the first two miles at a decent pace but I was probably going to need to ease back to finish the next 2 miles without stopping. That worked, since this wasn't a time I needed to work on pace really. Running during the summer was more about keeping mileage and the endurance up so that come fall cross country workouts I would still have a good base to work up from.

The workout ended up taking about 35 minutes and from there it was a little walk to cool down before heading inside for a much needed shower. Once out of the shower there was a definite craving that I deserved indulging in before heading into work. It'd been enough of a frustration the night before that a large shake was going to go well. In my opinion, Jakes Over the Top was the only place in the area that you would go to when you were really wanting a good shake. They had a lot of different flavors and the berries for anything that had it were always fresh, the shakes always thick, and even the 'mini' size they had was a size large anywhere else.

After putting the dog in the kennel I went out to the car and then the three miles it took to get down to Jakes. It had been a relatively new addition moving in last year to Kaysville. There were two other Jakes in the area, one further north in Ogden up by Weber State University, the other down in Salt Lake by the University of Utah. The burgers there were edible at best, but that wasn't the main reason people went there, and certainly not the reason that I went there.

It was a few minutes after I'd sat down with my root beer float and I was sitting down at a two person table when I felt hands reach around and cover my eyes. "Guess who?" The voice was a definitely female voice, and a familiar one at that. My first guess was given further proof by the relatively small size of the hands covering my eyes.

Reaching a hand out to grip one of hers and pull it off I answered before I would have been able to see her. "That would be the lovely and petite Tenille." My correct guess was confirmed when she pulled her hand from me and stepped around to show herself fully, a grin on her face.

"Don't go anywhere for a minute, I'm going to order a shake myself and then come back so we can talk for a bit." Suiting actions to words I watched as she walked away and over to the register to order. As Tenille walked I took the liberty of enjoying the view fully. She may have been short and petite but what was there was all proportionate. Thin at the waist with hips that flared out to show her curves. The shorts she wore were a snug fit which only helped to show that she had the type of ass that showed it well.