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At Home

(A continuation of In the Bathroom, In Australia, In LA, and Back Down Under)

Monday morning and Robert was up early getting ready. Kym moans, she can’t believe he’s awake, she doesn’t know what time it is or what time her body thinks it is. “Hey baby,” Robert says seeing she’s awake and kisses her on the head. “I don’t understand how you’re so awake?” Robert just laughs. “We have a busy day today. I’ll be back here just before 11. We’re meeting with the landlord at 11 at the studio space to see if it works for you. Then we can do lunch.“ “You said it was just a few blocks, can I walk there?” “Yea, here.” Robert grabs a paper and pen and draws out a little sketch of the 3 blocks. They agree to meet there at 11. He kisses her then he’s off to work.

Kym sees Robert pull up; she had just gotten there and introduced herself to the owner. They all walk in. Kym can picture where she would put the front desk, where the main studio space would be, the locker room, she even sees the little cafe area up front. She’s so excited. “So what do you think?” Robert asks. By the smile on her face he can see she wants it. The owner has the contract. He hands it to Robert who hands it to Kym. “Here baby, you read through everything.” It was going to be her space and her business and he wanted her to know she made the decisions. “Robert?” He walks up next to her. “Uhm, this monthly rent, is this ok?” It was a lot higher than her space in Sydney. But this wasn’t some outskirts area. This was West Hollywood in California. “Yes. I’ve already worked that out. It’s a fair price for this area and this size space.” Kym still looked a little worried, but knew this was motivation to be successful. Kym signs and hands the contract to the owner who hands her the keys. She’s so excited she jumps into Robert’s arms. “Thank you for this,” she says. “Now I know you just went through this in Australia, but figure out what work you’ll need and we’ll get bids from some contractors. I know you don’t want to spend your time remodeling and you’d rather be teaching so I hope we can get the work done quickly.” Kym smiles, he is absolutely the sweetest. She buries her face against him hugging him tightly. “Ok baby, let’s get some lunch.”

Kym was so busy all week walking through the studio, trying to create a vision so she could get contractor bids. She loved falling into Robert’s arms every night to sleep. Today was Friday and Robert was having a work party for being named 2nd on top cybersecurity firms so he invited employees and customers. It was nice for Kym to dress up and have a fun night.

“Who’s the leggy blond standing by the stage,” the one programmer says walking up to his friend. “I don’t know. When I got here she was taking to Rick, but she’s been standing alone for 5 or so minutes.” “I don’t recognize her, maybe a client?” “She looks lonely why don’t you go talk to her,” he eggs on his friend. The young programmer acts like a stud and walks up over to Kym.

“Hi?” “Oh hi,” Kym says turning and smiling. She’s balancing a wine glass on her left hand holding the stem with her right. The kids was a bit caught off guard by her accent. “This is a nice reception don’t you think?” “Oh yes very lovely,” Kym answers. They both just smile at each other for a few seconds. “I’m sorry, I don’t recognize you, are you here with someone?” Kym thought he was thinking maybe she was crashing the party so quickly answers, “Oh yes, Robert.” “Robert?” he asks, there were a few that worked for the company, most went by Rob or Bob except the CEO. “Uhm Herjavec,” Kym says. She shifts her wine glass and he sees the diamond on her finger. He’s trying to compose himself. “Oh great. You know he’s going to give a speech here in a few minutes.” “Yes. This will be the first time I’ve seen him speak so I’m looking forward to it.” The kid is lost for words and just sort of nods. Fortunately the awkwardness is broken when the top Herjavec execs walk out on stage and Kym’s attention turns to Robert. The kids slinks off to his friend who’s laughing quietly at him. “That’s Herjavec’s fiancée and you should see the rock on her finger.” “Better luck next time,” he laughs patting his shoulder.

Robert makes a great speech thanking everyone for their hardwork and encourages them to continue until they are number 1. Kym just smiles at him. He jumps down off the front of the stage and immediately engulfs her in his arms. He gives her a sweet kiss. “Did you like my speech?” “Yes,” she wraps her arms around his neck after setting her glass down on the stage. “You are very motivational. It makes me want to do my best, like with the dance studio.” “I know you will be great.” They share a few more kisses before Robert puts his arm around her waist and brings her around to meet with everyone.

Kym called her friends and let them know she was in town. She didn’t go into too many details. They agreed to meet Saturday and she had them meet outside her studio. Emma arrives and is so happy to see Kym they catch up. Then Whitney arrives with Cheryl driving. Finally Sharna shows up 5 minutes late, her standard. “So why did you want to meet here?” Sharna asks. “Ok first things first.” Kym reaches into her front pocket and slips back on her engagement ring. Everyone’s eyes go wide. “Robert!?” Emma yells. “Yes!” Kym answers. Emma and Cheryl scream and hug her. “Whoa, hang on who the Hell is Robert!?” Sharna says. She and Whitney were out of the loop on Kym’s love life as Kym really hadn’t spoken much to them since she left in January. “The guy she met at Noah’s bachelor party,” Cheryl adds. Sharna is still trying to process everything. “Wait, that guy you danced with then you, you know……?” Whitney asks. Kym nods. “Yes he came to see me in Australia and we’ve been dating ever since.” Everyone goes crazy and they’re yelling and crying and hugging and asking her a million more questions. After that excitement she digs around in her purse and pulls out her keys. She turns and smiles back at them then unlocks the doors. “He also got me a studio space here.” Again everyone is ecstatic for her. “Kymmie, you owe me big time for making you help out that night.” “Oh believe me Emma I know. Ok so I am going to need to hire some dancers to teach classes and I wanted to open it up to you guys first.” All the ladies are impressed and Kym shows them around and explains her plans for the work that will get done. They spend the rest of the afternoon catching up.

That next week Kym’s things began arriving including a few pieces of furniture. Robert has a huge condo, but it still felt tight with adding her stuff and it wasn’t even everything since she still had things in Australia. Robert comes home Thursday and even trying to put his suit away he notices how much stuff Kym has. “Hey Kymmie, how are you doing?” he asks walking over to her and putting his arms around her waist holding her close. “Oh good. The contractors started on the studio and right now it’s a mess but I can’t wait for it to be done.“ “That’s great. I can’t wait to see it. Kym what do you think about this place? With your things everything feels small.” “I know I’m sorry maybe we can sell some of the furniture.” “No Kym what I meant is, maybe we should look to buy a house. And I know we never talked about this, but do you want kids?” Kym was still trying to adjust to moving halfway around the world to be with Robert now he was talking about houses and kids. “Well yes I would like kids someday.” “Ok well let’s look for houses with 4 or 5 bedrooms.” Kym smiles she’s envisioning her future; living in LA, in a big house, teaching dance, raising kids and being married to the love of her life. This was it, she was home. “That sounds perfect,” Kym says kissing him.

The End.

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