Faking It With My Best Friend: A Sweet Small-Town Friends-to-Lovers Romantic Comedy (Second Chance Café Book 2) by Kate O'Keeffe

Author:Kate O'Keeffe [O'Keeffe, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Lime Books
Published: 2023-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Ryn

Could this night get any better? Joe, the festival, hanging out with his interesting friends.

Sure, that was an awkward conversation to have with Gabe about Ivy, made all the worse by the fact Natalie, his date, turned up at the end of it, but at least I’ve done my duty for Ivy. Even if Gabe regards her as a no-fly zone.

Pity for Ivy.

As for me, tonight is all about Joe, and I’ve been having a great time with him. And what’s more, I’ve successfully pushed the fact that Gabe kept those mementos from the night we kissed from my mind.

Mostly, anyway.

There’ll be time to work that one out another day.

Joe and I have been wandering around the stalls and the animal pens together, snacking on treats, and riding the rides. He won me a plush toy that is the funniest looking cross between an ogre and a hippo that strangely works, he’s bought me drinks and snacks and told me anything I’ve asked him about what it’s like working for Leonardo Finch, being in Hollywood, and all about his acting aspirations. Seriously, if he has even a dash of talent to add to his good looks, I bet we’ll see his name in lights before too long.

He’s introduced me to a bunch of people working on the movie, too. There’s Hayley, the makeup artist I met when I visited the set, who’s continued to encourage me to give makeup artistry a shot—which is something I have a growing interest in doing. Someday. Maybe.

Then there’s a guy named Duncan, who works as a sound engineer on the movie, a couple of other guys, Clay and Geoff, who work with Duncan, and a really gorgeous woman about five or so years older than me named Jenny, whose style I would kill to have, and who has been so super nice I feel like I’ve made a new BFF tonight.

Remember when I mentioned that nothing ever happens in Hunter’s Creek? Tonight, it feels like Hunter’s Creek is the epicenter of the entire universe, with new people and a world of possibilities at my door.

“Tell me, Ryn, we all know you have terrible taste in men, but what do you do for a living?” Jenny asks me as she, Ivy, Joe, and I feed a handful of maize to a pen of goats as Joe’s friends look on.

“Thanks a lot,” Joe rebuffs and Ivy laughs.

“It’s true,” Jenny says.

“Jenny’s only telling it like it is, dude,” Geoff says as he slaps Joe on the back. “You need to set your sights higher than this guy. Maybe go for a more normal looking man with unattractively thinning hair and a nose that’s too big for his face.”

I regard Geoff with his thinning hair and, some might say, large nose, and smile. “Thanks for the offer, but I think I’ll stick with this guy.”

“Yeah, you will,” Joe replies with a laugh. “Ugh. My hand is all slimy from animal slobber.” He makes a face and I laugh, the baby goat he was feeding looking up at him hopefully.

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