Over Joyed by Jeannette Winters

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

Chapter 5

Well, she’d done it. Somehow, Joyelle had asked him out twice and both times he’d said yes. Maybe the outing to make a unicorn didn’t really count, but she’d asked, and he had agreed. Pizza and beer was exactly what he called it: a date.

But when she’d said it, she had expected Ace to decline. Now she was rushing around her apartment like a madwoman on a cleaning frenzy. It was foolish. She should’ve agreed to go out to dinner with him. At least she could’ve spent this time with primping and making herself look attractive. How pretty was she going to look with bags under her eyes?

There was still time, even though not much, to make herself presentable. That was, until her cell phone rang. She answered it once she saw the caller ID.

“Hello, Grandma. Is everything okay?” Joyelle was worried, because she didn’t normally call after dinner. Grandma went to bed early because she was an early riser.

“Yes, Joyelle. I was calling to see if you found the photo yet?”

“No, Grandma. I’ll look again tomorrow.” Joyelle had no idea why her grandma was so fixated on one picture. If it was that important to her, then why hadn’t Joyelle seen it before now?

“Didn’t Horace come by to help this morning?”

“He came by, but we were both too busy to look.”

“But he promised,” she said, sounding disappointed.

“Yes, he did, and he will be helping me tomorrow morning to look.” Joyelle wasn’t really sure if that was a definite plan, but she needed to tell her grandma something.

“I really thought you two would’ve found it today.”

“If you want, I can look again after dinner,” Joyelle offered.

“No. Wait for him.”

Once again, her grandma was putting off the photo till Ace was available. If she thought they were going to get together, grandma obviously wasn’t thinking straight. She and Ace weren’t a match. If anything, they were the opposite of one. The only thing they shared was their dedication to their businesses.

“Grandma, I need to get ready for dinner.”

“Oh. Going out?” she asked.

“No, I’m having pizza tonight. But it should be delivered anytime now.”

“Well, we can talk until it arrives,” she added.

“But I want to change first.” Joyelle didn’t want Ace showing up with her dressed exactly as she was when he’d left earlier. He’d called it a date, so she should do something to acknowledge that.

“It’s pizza. You can eat that in your pajamas.”

“Not tonight,” she sighed.

“Joyelle, what are you not telling me? Are you having dinner with someone else?”

“Yes, Grandma.”

“Is it Horace?”

With a long exhale she replied, “Yes, Grandma. And I need to go change.”

Her grandma’s voice now was filled with excitement. “Go put on the pretty pink dress I bought you for your birthday.”

Since she hadn’t had time to shave her legs, there was no way a dress was coming out of her closet. Heck, with how quickly the time was flying by, Joyelle doubted she’d have time to change at all.

“Grandma, if I don’t get off the phone, I won’t even have time to brush my hair.

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