She could tell I noticed the phone in her hand. She held it up. “My old live-in friend. The one I told you about when we first met. The one I left because he wouldn’t commit to marriage and a family. He has had a change of heart. After hearing I was going with you for the summer, he started calling.”
I tilted my head and raised an eyebrow with an inquisitive look.
“I told him we could discuss it on my return.” Then with a big smile, she said, “I am not leaving this place for a while.”
I laughed. “What would you say to us finding a place for an early dinner. Then some shopping for groceries.”
“I would say it’s still too early for dinner. How about a coffee and a snack and bring home food for dinner here?”
“Sounds like a plan, Carol. Let’s go.”
The following day I awoke to the smell o
