She wasn’t quite sure why she was doing the dishes. They didn’t really need done

She wasn’t quite sure why she was doing the dishes. They didn’t really need done that badly – it was just a few cups. But she had the sudden urge upon walking past the sink to take care of them.In fact, she had a lot of feelings coming over her recently.

First had been at work: she had been given a pile of paperwork to file away like always, but somehow struggled with finding the right folder to drop it in. The folders were in alphabetical order, she thought, why is this so difficult? It was like her train of thought kept getting interrupted as she paged through the folders. She eventually found the correct one and was delighted with herself, giggling happily at a job well done. She had never been that happy about work before.

Second? She was typing her thesis for school at home when her boyfriend had passed by the door shirtless. This wasn’t exactly an uncommon sight, but somehow it pulled at her hard than she had expected. She could barely concentrate on her paper after that, and not until they fucked later did she feel relief. It had probably just been a while, she told herself.

Third: general forgetfulness. She had never been this ditzy before – in fact, she prided herself on keeping an orderly booklet full of appointments and tasks to accomplish each week. Now, the booklet was full of little drawings, doodles around the page’s edges, and anything thatwasn’t related to her schedule. She had gotten a cute pink cover for it, though!

Sighing, she continued to scrub. Maybe a vacation was in order. Her boyfriend stepped into the kitchen, giving her a squeeze, “hey babe, you didn’t have to do those.” She giggled at him, “no, it’s alright. I just needed something to occu…” she paused, searching for the word, “um, well, something to keep me busy. I’m been pretty, you know… out of it, lately. Maybe I’m sick.” She hugged him back, “You wouldn’t happen to, like, know anything about that?”

He smiled, embracing her, “No, babe, I haven’t the faintest idea.”