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Authors: Kay Cassidy
A too-chipper waitress girl came to take our orders, fawning a bit much over Ryan for my taste. I slowly turned my charm bracelet around my wrist to calm my nerves. I’d stressed out in a major way deciding what to wear, but a quick call to SJ had reeled me back in. I wasn’t Fake Blondie’s caliber, but my
fun-feminine-sporty
look had been holding Ryan’s attention so far. I just had to keep the faith.
Waitress McSmiley took away our menus, and the moment arrived. With no entrée options to impede our views, there was nothing to shield us from looking at each other. To keep us from engaging in more than idle chitchat. The time had come to act like two people on a real date.
Why don’t they make coloring menus for kids our age?
The silence stretched on for hours—okay, more like a few seconds, but it seemed like three lifetimes—before Ryan broke the ice. “Sorry about the Lexy comment.”
Not my first choice of topic. “She’s your sister,” I said, folding my napkin neatly onto my lap.
“Yeah, but she’s been tough on you.”
True, but I wasn’t letting her rain on my date parade.
“What’s your plan for the summer?” I asked, steering the conversation to safer ground.
“I work at the car wash and the Tri-Eight Cinemas. So mostly that and working out before football starts.”
“You work at the movie theater? Do you really get to see all the movies for free?”
“Mostly.” He grabbed some sugar packets and started building a mini house of sugar with them. “I didn’t see the Sandler flick, since I knew we were going.”
How sweet was that? “I’ve only seen one movie since we moved here.”
Ryan smiled. “Orlando Bloom.”
Typical.
“You know, just because most girls are in love with him doesn’t mean that’s the one movie I would’ve seen.”
“You came with your mom and got there after the previews started. You were wearing a red shirt that said
EAT-SLEEP-CHEER
.”
I blinked.
No. Way.
“She doesn’t like to sit through the previews.” My face felt like fire. “I didn’t see you that day. How did you see me?”
“I always notice cute new girls. But back to Orlando. What were you saying about the movie you saw?” He laughed at my deepening blush. “That’s okay. As long as you know we can’t all be Orlando Bloom.”
Ryan thought my embarrassment was about being a Bloom groupie, caught red-handed. But I couldn’t have cared less about that. I was just trying to hold it together after the bomb he’d dropped. Ryan Steele had noticed me all the way back then.
And he’d remembered.
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