“Did anyone see me? I said to Parrish as I hurriedly hopped into his car after I made him park a few blocks away from his company because I didn’t want anyone to see me leaving work with him.
“I doubt,” he said, “Because suddenly everyone is interested in seeing who you get off work with.”
I smacked him playfully, “A lot of busybodies you have as employees sir.”
“I don’t care about that.” he said.
“Well you should and I don’t want anybody to find out that we’re, well you know – fucking.”
Parrish chuckled as we got down from the car together and he walked over to take my hand in his as we walked into yet another fancy restaurant with bright golden chandeliers, waking those damn butterflies that I wanted to stay dormant but I stepped dead in my tracks just at the door of the restaurant
