Content ~ Writing Wednesday

I'm back with Chapter 2!
I've got a new emotion, a new setting, and new-ish characters.
Check out Chapter 1 here if you want to stay in the loop.

This week the emotion that the random generator picked was Content.

Enjoy.

Chapter 2

His smile was soft and genuine. Gwen blushed a little as she found herself staring at it again. She glanced away, turning her gaze to the passenger window. The sun was covered, and the buildings were decaying. She sighed at the depressing view, breathing in the smell of stale coffee. She glanced at the half-full paper cup siting in the cup holder and then her eyes somehow found their way up to him again, and his smile. It was small and gentle; it was pure and sincere. She didn’t feel butterflies in her stomach. She didn’t feel her heart race, or skip a beat. She didn’t feel the way young women claim love is supposed to feel.

She felt… nice.

His hand, she now noticed, was hovering over her lap. She laced her fingers around his and gently stroked his hand with her thumb. Her own small, soft smile grew a little as glanced at their intertwined hands.

“Did you enjoy the service, baby?” He asked.

“I did.”

“Did you like it there?”

“I did. The people seemed really nice there. What was that one girl’s name again? You said you’ve been friends with her since you started at Pitt.”

“Ellen?”

“Yeah, she seemed nice. She was very sweet.”

“Yeah, she’s pretty cool.”

Gwen turned her gaze back to his warm smile. He glanced back at her, and she could tell that there was a slight disquiet behind his blue eyes.

“Yes.” She replied to the question that he was too timid to ask.

“You want to continue coming here? You’re Ok to leave your old church?”

“Yeah. At least for a little while. I like it there. It just seems really nice.”