Hey, Good Looking by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2299-7
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2006-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

10

It was seven-fifteen when Darby, in her bare feet, trotted across the lawn to the back alley to pick up the pizza from the delivery man. She paid the driver, accepted the pie, turned around, and bumped into Ben, who had a wad of money in his hand. “You can buy it the next time,” she said. “Just so you know, Willie gets the crust. Don’t you, boy? Dogs can’t eat anything that has tomatoes in it. At least that’s what Russ said. He was really up on dog stuff.” The retriever sniffed and barked.

The next time.It sounded good to his ears. Ben shoved the bills back into his pocket. “I think it’s going to rain again,” he said, just to have something to say.

“This is Baton Rouge. It rains almost every day when it’s this hot. Did you forget?” Darby chided with a smile.

“Sometimes I do forget, and other times I remember everything. Every little thing. I guess I block stuff out I don’t like remembering. Let’s eat. I’m starved.”

They were on the front porch, where Darby had set up a little folding table with paper plates, napkins, and a jar of hot peppers. A small bucket held ice and bottles of the family beer. She opened the box, and said, “Dig in.”

Darby eyed Ben over her slice of pizza. He looked handsome, and he smelled wonderful.

They ate in comfortable silence until the entire pie was gone. Willie had a pile of crusts on his plate.

Darby uncapped a bottle of beer. “The aunts should be in Rayne by now. I wish I knew what the three of them are up to.”

Ben didn’t want to talk about the aunts or Eric McAllister. He wanted to talk aboutthem. “Would you like to have dinner with me on Friday night? A date,” he mumbled.

Darby felt herself blushing and wondered if her girlhood crush could possibly still be this strong. “You mean like I get gussied up, you ring my doorbell, and off we go?”

“Yeah. Yeah, I can ring your doorbell. I guess you have to get dressed up to go to Armand’s.”

“Armand’s! I hate Armand’s. How about Chinese? I love good Chinese. That way we can wear shorts, I don’t have to wear makeup. Makeup runs in this humidity.”

“Oh. That’s certainly reason enough to do Chinese. Dodo said you loved Armand’s.”

“Dodo loves Armand’s. It’s a date then. What time?”

“Seven.”

“Oh, look, it’s starting to rain. I love sitting out here on the porch. What I really love is watching a good storm. How about you?”

“I might like it if you were with me. I don’t think I ever sat around and watched a storm.”

Darby tilted her head for a better look at the man sitting next to her on the swing. “You’re an odd duck, Ben Gunn. I suspect you were so busy running from your memories you just haven’t taken the time to enjoy the little things in life. Am I wrong?”

“I have a lot of regrets, if that’s what you mean. But I’m not sure I’d do anything different if I had to do it over again.

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