Christmas Hero by Di Jones

Author:Di Jones [Jones, Di]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Write from the Heart Publications
Published: 2019-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Andy

As soon as they finished work the next day, they made their way to the Christmas Festival, which was taking place in the town square for the twelve days prior to Christmas. Andy had loved the festival as a kid, and now he was getting to share it with Elizabeth.

As they reached the edge of the square, Andy took in the activity before him, memories from his childhood flooding his mind. His stomach rumbled, and his mouth watered at the array of food trucks in front of them. “Here’s the plan,” he began. “Notice how I went light at lunch?”

“I did. I thought maybe you were putting me on a diet,” Elizabeth commented.

“You don’t need to lose any weight. You’re perfect as you are.” He glanced down the length of her body, and wished, not for the first time, that he could take her in his arms, crush her to him, and kiss her deeply. This wasn’t the right time…although he knew it would come. “No. I was pacing you. Me..us..we needed pacing. Because this is the true test of our fortitude, our stamina, our stomachs.” He couldn’t get the thought of kissing her out of his mind, but he gestured around the square. There were food booths from the restaurants in town, and anyone local with a specialty had a stall. “You hungry, princess?”

“Yes, and there’s an amazing selection here. Mrs. Bowers and her pies. She makes both meat pies and desert pies. In fact the best pumpkin pie you could find. Katie Lincoln crafts cookies almost too pretty to eat. And there’s Bob Schmidt over there manning his smoker. He makes the best barbecue beef brisket in ten counties.”

They walked around the square, checking out the foodstuffs and looking at the stalls. Every now and then Betty stopped to chat to someone, and each time she introduced him he noticed the questioning looks. Was he her boyfriend, or just a friend? If it was up to him it would be the former but despite the fact he knew she enjoyed his company he wasn’t sure of her feelings for him. Yes, she liked him, but was there more there?

“What do you want to eat?” she asked.

“I think that smoked brisket looked pretty good.”

They walked back to the stall, placed their orders, and found a bench where they could sit and eat. The meat was hot, smoky and spicy and melted in his mouth: the best thing he’d eaten for ages. He turned to Elizabeth to see if she was enjoying it as much as he was, and saw she had a run of barbecue sauce tricking down her chin. “Hold still,” he told her, taking his serviette and dabbing it on her face.

“I’m so messy. Thank you.” Their faces were so close together and again he wanted to kiss her, but she looked away and he wondered if she was embarrassed.

She bundled up her food wrappers, took his and got up to put them into a garbage can. “Let’s look around a bit more.

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