Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg

Author:Elizabeth Berg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Monica Gets a Man

MONICA CALLS THE ORDER IN: “Grilled coffee roll, drown it in cow paste. And two chicks and hanger steak on the hoof, whole-wheat shingles.”

“Got it!” Roberto says, in a cheerful, birdy tone that, frankly, Monica resents. She herself has been depressed for a while now, ever since she and Polly came back from New Orleans. In her heart is a black tick-tocking, a sense that time is passing and she has got to get going on finding someone else. Tiny has been in twice with that woman Iris, and the last three times he came in alone and sat at the counter, where Janelle waited on him.

Monica doesn’t tell anyone how she feels. It doesn’t show, either. Dimpled smiles for everyone, a cheerful refilling of coffee endless times for endless customers, Thanks a bunch! written on every check, a little bouquet of three daisies drawn beside it. She comes to work on time; she stays for as long as she’s needed; if someone tells a joke, she says, Ha-ha-ha. Tiny says hello to her when he comes in, but that’s it. Well, hello, Monica, in that way that used to zip up her spine and make her think he cared for her, or was interested in her, but she guesses now that she was wrong. Maybe he and Iris have a thing going on, even though anyone can see that Monica is a much better match for him.

“You might have to start all over again in the boyfriend department,” Polly said. “But that could be a good thing.”

Maybe Polly was right. The fortune-teller Monica saw in New Orleans said the love of Monica’s life would have a name starting with P. Monica doesn’t have any more faith in fortune-tellers now than she did before the reading. But here’s the thing: the day after she and Polly came back from their trip, Polly met a man at the Henhouse who kept an apartment in Paris. Just like her fortune-teller said she would. Astonishing that such a person would come into the Henhouse, but such a person did. He was a movie person, out on a cross-country trip, exploring the back roads in search of a location. Needed to be a really small town in the Midwest, which of course is exactly what Mason is. In the end, he decided not to pick Mason for the movie, but didn’t he just pick Polly for someone to spend the evening with, and they got along like a house afire. Polly came into work the next day dreamy as an old-fashioned high school girl wearing bobby sox and a ribbon around her ponytail. The guy—his name was Larry Bristol—had asked Polly to finish his road trip with him. Oh, he’d take care of separate accommodations at night, she shouldn’t worry about that, but he thought she’d be an awful lot of fun to have on the drive back out to L.A. And then he’d buy her an airline ticket home, if she wanted to go back home.

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