To Be With You by Opal Mellon

Author:Opal Mellon [Mellon, Opal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The beachfront cafe Ben took Nicole to was undeniably posh, and Nicole looked around the clean, teal colored room with its hardwood floor and delicate iron wrought tables. The waitress, a pretty blonde with pale skin set the menu down and Nicole ordered a tofu grill.

Their food came, he ate, she picked at hers, and he droned on about something that didn’t interest her. Nicole looked past Ben out to the ocean and wondered how you could be on a date with one man, and be thinking about another. She knew she should be interested in what Ben was saying, but she kept seeing a pair of disappointed blue eyes in her mind whenever she blinked.

Ben’s eyes were blue, but they weren’t vibrant. They were that generic blue, a little bit of gray, and a little bit of yellow around the middle. But it seemed like everyone wanted to think his or her eyes were special and unique. Just like a person with blue eyes would take care to describe the color of the middle, the outer, and the inside ring, a person with dark eyes would be sure to tell you that their eyes were more of a chocolate, or doe eyed, or amber, and also point out a different colored ring.

“So then I graduated.”

Crap. Nicole didn’t know what to say and she could tell by the way Ben looked at her over his glass with expectant eyes that he’d said something of note, something that warranted response. The recurring question, pretend to have heard and take a lob shot at a response? Or just tell them you zoned out?

“Wow.” Nicole chose the former.

“I know.” Ben set his glass down. “Some people don’t realize how hard it is to just finish up and leave, especially with pressure from your parents to get a different major.”

“I haven’t finished, myself,” Nicole said.

“Well there’s time.” Ben puffed out his chest and stretched, then leaned back in the chair. “You’re still young.”

“I’m not planning on finishing college. I like writing.” Nicole studied his face. Not a very handsome face, nothing really wrong with it either. Big forehead, perma-smirk. Nothing like Sean, with his watchful, hesitant eyes, and slow smile. A smile given to her easier than anyone else. Ben was pale, too. His skin was a bit yellow almost. His lips were thin, dark pink. His nose was a bit too thin, too long.

“What would you like to do next?” he asked, waving down a waiter for the check with clumsy hands. Hands that didn’t seem to be completely controlled, almost like the nerves only went to the second to last knuckle. She hated clumsy hands.

“Um.” She looked around the restaurant for a clock, even though she didn’t have anything to do. She rummaged in her purse, but no luck finding her phone. “What time is it?”

“Why? Somewhere you need to go?”

“Yes,” she said. “My aunt is expecting me.”

He took his card from the check holder. She bet that if she looked inside, she’d see a tip that wasn’t huge but made him feel like a high roller.

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