Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean

Author:Stuart McLean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Published: 2010-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

All things considered, the salon staff were very nice to Dave. They guided him to a quiet corner and a soft chair. They brought him a coffee. And he sat and he waited, and after the coloring was finished, he and Morley walked home together.

“I told him I wanted something natural,” said Morley as they walked along.

“It is natural,” said Dave, pointing at the bright red leaves on the maple tree in the park.

They sat on a park bench, and Dave, overcome with love and relief, finally asked the question he had been afraid to ask before he knew the answer.

“Are you still happy with me?” he asked. “Is everything okay?”

Morley, with her licorice red streaks, looked at him and said, “I would tell you if it wasn’t.”

And so it was that six weeks later, Morley called the salon and booked an appointment with Lawrence. Before she went, she phoned Lawrence himself.

“I feel a little embarrassed about this,” she said. And she told him everything.

She told him about the day he brought her tea instead of coffee, and about the time he used the apricot shampoo. And about Mathieu.

Lawrence was a little chilly the first time she had another appointment with him, but she didn’t let him get away with it. “We have to try something different,” she said. “And it has to be your idea.”

“I was thinking,” he said, “that we could start with apricot shampoo.”

That’s when she knew they were going to be all right.

And she isn’t wrong. They will be all right, although it will take longer than she thinks. Lawrence will suggest things, and they will try them, but not many of the things will work. Morley was never meant to have dreadlocks. Or to be blond.

But it won’t be what they are doing that counts—just that they are trying new things and that they are working on them together.

As for Dave, Dave will realize that sometimes a little uncertainty is not such a bad thing in a relationship, that courting shouldn’t end with marriage. He will keep bringing Morley stuff—root-beer-flavored jelly beans and sponge toffee. And on her birthday, instead of going out to one of the neighborhood restaurants they favor, Dave will cook for Morley this year, just the way he did when they were dating—a cheddar-cheese hot dog in the toaster oven and s’mores over the gas flame of the stove.

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