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*Tyler’s POV*
“Owens!” Javi yells once he notices me walking over to him and Kate.
“Storm par“ I retort. My attention immediately turns to the entire reason I’m here. “Sapulpa, still not telling me when you’re coming back?” For the last few days, I’ve been bugging her to tell me when she’s coming back because she has to come back right? The tension between us has grown even more since El Reno while we were both recovering and I can’t stand to watch her leave.
She shrugs her shoulder and takes a step closer to me. “I don’t know. this could be it.”
I’m momentarily worried that she’s not joking with me. “Can’t tell if you’re joking or not.”
Kate stepped even closer to me and drawled in a low tone, "Well, maybe if you feel you should chase it." The brief moment following that, before she stepped back to hug Javi and walked into the airport, had me reeling.
"Alright, time's up," said the airport employee, barely registering.
I felt a pat on my shoulder as Javi half scolded me, "Yo, come on dude. Seriously?" It was as if he was trying to get me to understand what Kate was trying to tell me.
"Can we get a tow truck to departures?" asked airport security over the radio.
"OK, OK, OK, I'm gonna move," I muttered. I got back in my truck and all of a sudden it hit me. I had to go after this woman. Looking over to my right, I saw her just inside the airport. Just as security approached my truck, I deployed the auger straight into the concrete. (Try towing that, security.)
I quickly got out of my truck and ran around the back end of it. I caught sight of Javi nodding his head approvingly as I ran into the airport. I didn't have to go far because she was still looking at the departure board with her back turned towards me.
As I caught up to her, she turned to me, not looking surprised one bit, with that wonderful smirk on her face. The PA chimed, "Due to increasing winds from a nearby storm, please expect delays."
It was the perfect sign. She didn't even know if her flight was delayed, and she ran off with me. I took her luggage and we made it out to my truck before they had a chance to impound it.
I ran in there intending to kiss her, but this gave me even more time to take my chance and get her to stay.