Excerpt: My Musician

Two weeks later Anja was walking through town when she got the insane urge to go to the skate park. Jesse had said they would be in town within a couple days and she hadn't heard from him yet. She was halfway across the street on her way to the coffee shop in town when she made the decision to go back there and spun around, running into a tourist who just happened to be walking a little too close. He swore at her in German and she gave it to him right back in his own tongue… which made him pause and blink in shock. She smiled sweetly and continued on her way before he could respond. She quickly wove her way through all the tourists and locals until she found herself on the beginning of the path leading off into the quieter part of town… and the skate park.
Anja hit the path through the park at a jog, speeding up to a run before she could see the half pipe and scaring all the little creatures in her path. As she turned the corner she wondered if she was hallucinating, because there he was… a little scruffy around the edges and wearing his cowboy hat down over his eyes… but she swore that Jesse was leaning back on the rail. Her heart stopped beating for a moment, but as she slowed the figure looked up and the face under the cowboy hat was revealed. Anja squealed and sped up again, jumping two rails instead of going around them, and launching herself at him.
His arms caught her and she smiled… it was Jesse alright, he still smelled the same. Anja breathed in his scent and found it intoxicating as ever. She looked up into his green eyes… eyes should could stare at forever… and was surprised as he lifted her up and pulled her tight against him. His fingers brushed against her skin as her shirt hitched up under his hold on her. Too excited to stop and think about what she was doing, Anja found that she wanted very badly to touch his face. She caught his face in her hands, feeling the scratchy stubble under her palms, and kissed him.