Chapter 8

Next day it was back to training as normal but the office was closed so I got to relax again for a few days, we have a couple of games away and then the office reopens so I am looking forward to being away with the boys before the normal routine starts again.

On our return from our trip I headed home to find a message from Kirsty saying that she has her visa and is hoping to have moved by the end of March. I decided to take this opportunity to call her and ask her what she thought I should do about my feelings for Sidney. We agreed that I should discuss with him how I was feeling. I had previously spoke to Mario in a not so obvious way and asked if employees were aloud to have relationships with each other – they are!

I am just about to head for a relaxing swim when I hear the door bell ring, as I head to the door I think that it looks like Sidney through the glass, oh my god, it is Sidney and I am standing in my swimming costume – agh!!

“Hi Sidney, what are you doing here?”

“That is not much of a welcome. I thought since we were both off tomorrow that we could watch a movie and have a nice bottle of wine before it is back to the grind on Tuesday”. Sidney says smiling while extending his arm to give me the wine.

I invited him in and told him I would go and get changed, he told me to go for my swim and if I didn’t mind he would prepare tea – sounds perfect I thought as I walked off.

While I am swimming I wondered if I should make tonight the night and tell Sidney how I am feeling, I think it is best if I just wait and see how the night goes.

I headed for a quick shower and put on some nice but casual clothes and headed back to the kitchen. Sidney had made a gorgeous meal of a warm chicken Caesar salad, with some curly fries (?) and a fruit salad with custard for dessert, after all he was still a young lad, he will have strange combinations.

“You look lovely” he tells me as I approach him in the kitchen.

We headed out to the conservatory with our meals and chatted for a while as we sat and watched the snow fall. We decided to head back into the house and watch a film. On our way through the kitchen we topped up the wine glasses and got some munchies including some ice cream, we were having a fat night, I think we deserve it after a couple of tough games of the road.

As we sat and watched the movie Sidney sat with his arm around me as we had done on Christmas day, my stomach was in knots and my heart was beating so much faster than it should be, I decided that once the film had finished I would tell him how I felt.