Save The Date: A Baymoor Adventure by D. A. Young

Save The Date: A Baymoor Adventure by D. A. Young

Author:D. A. Young [Young, D. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: D. A. Young
Published: 2023-02-26T22:00:00+00:00


February

“The big day is just about here, Uncle Guy. Are you ready?” Aiden asked.

“Huh?” Joanna stopped eating her breakfast burrito and swiveled her head between them. “What’s going on?”

“I’m talking about him proposing to Mom.” Aiden finished the last of his orange juice, stuffed his burrito wrapper inside the empty bottle and aimed for a trash can ten feet ahead of them.

“Buckets!” he proclaimed.

It sailed in effortlessly. Guy cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted, “Oh snap! And the crowd goes wild! Aiden! Aiden!”

“Pause on the bromance, please!” Joanna exclaimed, interrupting his chanting. She jumped in front of her brother and uncle, walking backwards. “I still can’t believe you’re proposing to Mommy on Valentine’s Day! It’s just so cliché! This is when everyone expects you to do it. Do not be that dude, Uncle Guy. I’m begging you.”

“Don’t pay her any mind. You got this, champ,” Aiden argued.

Sensing his approval rating taking a skydive with his niece, Guy humored Joanna. “You got any better ideas, punkin’? Because the man who makes our meals stares at me daily as if he’s debating whether today is the day he poisons my food or not.”

He wasn’t being dramatic either. Every encounter with Raymond, who was the human equivalent of an ingrown toenail in Guy’s opinion, was starting to feel like a high noon scene from a western movie the longer Fern went ringless.

“Tomorrow would be a good day to pop that question, just in case you was feeling productive,” the chef had jeered, implying that Guy was anything but.

He had retaliated with, “Aren’t elders supposed to lead by example? You first, Chef.”

Guy wasn’t proud of stooping to his level and dragging Ms. Chandra into anything but damn, he also wasn’t expecting to have a knot jerked in his tail this bright and early by that cranky rottweiler. Raymond’s evil sneer had spoken volumes. Luckily, the children’s presence had prevented him from cutting up further. For their benefit, the sourpuss had managed to pull his face into a…smile? Guy wasn’t sure he was using the proper description for what Raymond’s face did when he fixed it like that. Aiden shot him a ‘sucks to be you’ look.

“It’s cool. Mr. Ray’s bark is actually worse than his bite,” he downplayed for his uncle’s benefit.

“Forgive me if call horse pucky on that one, Aiden,” Guy retorted affectionately. “I’m all ears here, JoJo.”

“Glad we’re off your thing.” She spun back around, leading the way, waving her burrito like a baton. “Okay, dream with me here, please. I’m thinking fireworks, skywriting, a marching band, step show, peacocks, a unicorn driven carriage down Main Street, and finally, a ginormous glitter-filled balloon drops on Town Square when Mommy says yes! Or, you wait until late spring and hire some mer-people to perform a synchronized swimming routine in Cinnamon Farms pond. You should dress up as Jack Sparrow—”

“Aaand you’re done,” Guy interrupted, laughing.

He tugged on one of her curls. She exploded into a fit of giggles and batted his hand away.



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