When Pigs and Parrots Fly by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781433679346
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-16T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Dr. Faire? Josh is here.”

“Send him in.”

Sarah started to run her hands down her smock to smooth out any creases, but she froze.

Even if she looked a mess, it didn’t matter. Nothing could be done. She was at work, and if she looked like a mess, then she looked like a mess.

Yesterday, how she looked wouldn’t have made any difference, but today it did.

She’d lain awake most of the night, thoughts rolling around and warring in her head. She’d thought Josh was going to kiss her. If she hadn’t had a near-panic attack, he just might have.

Last night, she realized that she’d had the man of her dreams in front of her all along. She’d been judging every man she’d ever dated against the paradigm of her brother’s best friend, and every one of them had come up short. That was so wrong on so many levels.

Last night, when she’d made the offer to be Josh’s quasi-date, she’d thought nothing of it except for a chance to fill an empty evening. She didn’t know how they’d come so close together, but when she thought Josh was going to kiss her, all her teenaged dreams merged into her adult ones, and she realized she’d never truly outgrown how she felt about him when she was a little girl.

When she’d played with her dolls, she’d taken a felt pen and colored the boy doll’s hair the same color as Josh’s, and of course, he’d always been the husband. When she got older, but not much more mature, she’d embroidered hearts with his initials onto her clothes in hidden spots no one could see, but she knew they were there. She’d cut pictures of bridal gowns out of magazines and taped them over photos of herself, then taped pictures of Josh beside her. Until she left for college, her ultimate dream had been to go out on an exclusive date with Josh.

Now the thought of that very same thing becoming a reality suddenly terrified her. Yet, if she were to think rationally, this was exactly what she needed. She would either decide that the teenage crush she’d never really outgrown was exactly that—a crush—or she would decide if she’d truly loved him all along and never really gotten over it. Then the gloves would come off, and the battle would truly begin.

The hinge squeaked as the door opened. Grinning, Josh entered the work area of her clinic, carrying a bag from Bert’s Barbecue, Rufus at his side.

“I brought lunch. I hope you’re hungry. They had a two-for-one deal on Bert’s house special.”

She raised one hand without entering the small staff room. “Last night when you said you could come here for lunch, I really wasn’t thinking. We can’t eat in here. My staff room is very small, too tight for two adults and two dogs.”

One eyebrow quirked. “Maybe, but I’m starved, and I’ve got to get back to my store soon because I’m a person short again. I don’t mind squeezing together. I don’t have time to go someplace else to eat.

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