A WEEK WITHOUT ZACH: NIGHT 1

CHAPTER 3:

A WEEK WITHOUT ZACH

Night One

It took Sage only a few minutes to settle into her new home, as she hadn't really brought anything but clothes per the agreement she had made with both Zach and Eliza. 

Eliza hadn't wanted her to change anything and Zach didn't want to spend any money moving furniture if it was just going in storage, so they sold it...everything except the bare minimum that they needed to survive. 

"This place isn't too bad" she said to herself  as she scanned the room that would be her bed room. "I mean it could be worse, although I will have to ask Eliza about changing some of the bedrooms around to make room for our children but all in all not bad. Not good but not bad"

Sage went about busying herself with unpacking her luggage and putting away her clothes, of those she had few of too unless they were workout clothes. Between work and working out both Zach and Sage did very little socializing and even less in the presence of someone that would criticize their fashion choices.

"This is going to be a long week." she said shaking her head.

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Night 1

Sage didn't sleep that night, at all she spent most of her night reading some of the older copies of the books that Eliza's parents had presumably collected over the years. 

Between that and looking at all of the pictures on the wall Sage concluded that Eliza's parents were a lot more well off than the size of their home made them out to be. 

Sage pulled out her phone and called Zach, It has to be at least 10 there so he should be home. she thought as she dialed his number.

"Hey baby I was just about to call you" Zach said after only one ring.

"You answered the phone fast." Sage said.

"Well I told you that I was about to call you, you called while I was dialing your number." He laughed. "Wait what are you doing awake isn't it like 3 am there?"

"Well my body is used to it being 10 at this time and I can't possibly sleep in Eliza's parents bed."

"did they not change the sheets?"

"oh no they changed the whole mattress but it still doesn't feel like ours yet. well not until we..."

"Well I see your libido is still up and running as well." 

"You know how I am" she laughed. 

"did you find a good gym there?" 

"I found one but I didn't go to it. I just did a jog around our neighborhood and called it a day. I'll count today as one of my cheat days." she said bowing her head as if he could actually see her.

"don't start slacking, you don't want to play catch up while trying to fit in with the new team do you?" 

"no, but I am so lonely I miss you"

"I miss you to baby, but we only have 7 more days and 6 more nights"

"yeah, Only." she mumbled.

"hush, and go get in that bed."

"but-"

"just get in the bed, I'm going to sing you to sleep."

"I love you Smoochy" Sage said with a childish grin on her face. He always found a way to be such a romantic it was one of the things that drew them together.

"I love you too babs. Are you in the bed?" he asked.

"Yep"

"comfy"

"as comfy as I can be"

"good." he said as he started to sing the chorus of Freeing Myself by Dynasty Darling which happened to be Sage's favorite song even though it was more than a few years old, Lulling her into dreams of her own Dynasty.