Fishing With RayAnne by Ava Finch

Author:Ava Finch [Finch, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503947689
Amazon: 1503947688
Barnesnoble: 1503947688
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Published: 2015-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

NINE

In the catering tent, Hal sidles into the breakfast line next to RayAnne with his tray. Neither has had coffee yet. She barely makes eye contact. “Did you get Norah off?”

He looks at her curiously. “Um, I dropped her off. At the airport.”

“Right, that’s what I meant.” Idiot.

Hal nods to where Big Rick has a number of the crew hanging on his every word. “So, your dad is Big Rick from Bi—”

RayAnne finishes, “Big Rick’s Bass Bonanza. Yup.”

“I watched his show when I was a kid.”

“You and dozens. It got canceled during the first season.”

“What happened?”

“What happened?” RayAnne frowns over the array of breakfast offerings. How is she supposed to lose weight when the caterers flaunt mac-and-cheese waffles and artisanal maple sausages? She settles for a feta and spinach egg-white omelet, taking the moment to stall in the face of Hal’s question. “Actually?” She decides to tell it straight up. “Actually, sponsors happened.”

“Oh? Oh.”

She inhales and it all comes out, seemingly in one breath: “I don’t remember every detail, just the plot—my dad, married, of course, to my mother—got involved with the wife of the CEO of TroutLocker. Apparently only one of his affairs. Anyway, Mrs. TroutLocker left her husband and pulled a Fatal Attraction and followed my mom and us around for a few weeks. There was a restraining order and all that. So, my dad got fired because of the scandal, and it made all the newspapers, and my mom went understandably nuts for a while. Dad sued TroutLocker and won, so naturally no underwriter would touch him after that. You know, the usual stuff.” Why was she telling him all this?

Hal’s mouth opens, as if wondering the same thing, then he recovers, grabbing a cream cheese pastry to offer her. She shakes her head, making her fat-cheeked fat-face.

“Ah, sorry.” He drops the pastry onto his own plate. “That must have been pretty rough.”

“Well, it was no trip to the so-dee fountain.”

“Pardon?”

“Sorry, it’s this scene in—”

“In Little Big Man.” Hal grins. “One of my favorite scenes, Jack playing with the elephant spigot while Mrs. Pendrake is in the storeroom getting . . . you know. But yeah, I see what you mean. Ouch.”

He has favorite scenes from her favorite film? Now she’s staring at him like she had that first day in the parking lot. The moment is interrupted when Amy walks up, dressed as if for an eighties disco instead of the backwoods. She reaches between them to grab a fork. They both turn to watch as she slowly sashays past Big Rick’s table to her own, where a fork is clearly visible. RayAnne and Hal exchange looks. He nods in the direction of an empty table and she follows.

Over breakfast Hal brings her up to speed on all the goings-on she’s been avoiding since Big Rick’s arrival. As she’d suspected, her father has indeed ingratiated himself to the crew, always there to tote some case or coil some cable. Hal reports he’s even shown Randall a

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