That's Not My Suitcase by Laina Turner

Author:Laina Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Vacation, Beach, Suitcase
Published: 2015-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

After a nap and a long shower, I was wide awake and starving. I got to the restaurant a few minutes early and as I walked up so did Tom. I felt a little bit bad about not telling Steve I was having dinner with Tom. Which was silly. It’s not like we were in a relationship and I hadn’t talked to him at all today. I just couldn’t remember the last time I had dinner with two men in two days who weren’t related to me. The thought made me smile. I was being quite the player these days.

“Good timing,” he said to me with a big smile, and then turned to the hostess. “Reservation for Butler, please.”

The hostess looked at her book for the reservation and then grabbed two menus while asking us to follow her.

Tom motioned for me to go first, being quite the gentleman. He looked very handsome in dark blue jeans with a white T-shirt and black vest. It wasn’t until I looked down at his feet that I burst out laughing.

“Hey! It’s vacation. No making fun of my footwear.”

He had on flip flops with his outfit which of course just didn’t exactly go, but he was right, it was vacation and anything goes on vacation. It was exactly why I was sitting here with him in the first place. Back home having dinner with a man ten years my junior who I had just met probably wouldn’t be something I would do, but here it seemed perfectly normal.

We sat down and after a few minutes ordered. With that task out of the way, we were faced with the challenge of needing to engage in small talk. But I shouldn’t have worried for a moment. Tom was quite chatty and pretty interesting. He had a funny way of telling things.

I had just started telling him my luggage story when our food came.

“Not having your own clothes? That blows. Especially for a woman,” he teased.

“And what’s that supposed to mean?”

“Because men don’t need fancy shoes and we don’t mind wearing the same pair of jeans every day. You women are a lot more picky.”

I nodded. “True, I do like my own things.”

“See. Like me, I just need one pair of flip flops, not a whole suitcase of flip flops.”

“Maybe because you just don’t have any fashion sense.”

“Ouch! That hurt!” he said, looking offended.

“Hey, you asked,” I said, taking another bite of delicious food.

After a great meal, we were relaxing with our after dinner cup of coffee and I found I really was enjoying myself. It did feel weird being out with a man and going through those moments of what to say, what not to say, being cautious and not wanting to appear silly or stupid. Though with Tom it was easier than it had been with Steve, because there was no attraction there, at least on my end and I doubted he was attracted to me. But I was flattered just the same. Male

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