EFFIE
He"d somehow managed to pull off the perfect date, which was impressive, given that she wouldn"t have been able to put it together herself. But the aquarium followed by ice cream out in the sunshine by the estuary hit the spot. It was both charming, and romantic, with enough informality to put her at ease and stop her from overthinking too much.
Plus, she really did love the penguins.
She crunched on the last of her ice cream cone, glad she"d gotten the waffle one instead of the plain wafer. She"d hesitated, wondering if it made her greedy to do that, but decided she didn"t care.
Lucky for her, Wendell ordered the same.
"You never told me what you did at the nursing home," he said.
She frowned. Hadn"t she? Oh, that was right, all she"d said was that she wasn"t a nurse. "You hav
