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When he paused, he noticed the smile playing at the corners of her
lips.
“And?” she asked.
“And it still took me three hours to get so much as a name and
phone number from her.”
She laughed. “And let me guess. You called the next day, right?
And asked her out?”
“How would you know that?”
“You seem like the type.”
“Spoken like someone who’s been hit on more than a few times.”
She shrugged, leaving it open to interpretation. “Then what?”
“Why do you want to hear this?”
“I don’t know,” she admitted. “But I do.”
He studied her. “Fair enough,” he finally said. “So anyway—as
you already magically knew—I asked her out to lunch and we
spent the rest of the afternoon talking. That weekend, I told her
that the two of us would get married one day.”
“You’re kidding.”
“I know it sounds crazy. Believe me, she thought it was crazy, too.
But I just… knew. She was smart and kind and we had a lot in
common and we wanted the same things in life. She laughed a lot
and she made me laugh, too… honestly, of the two of us, I was the
lucky one.”
Rollers continued to ride the ocean breeze, pushing over her
ankles. “She probably thought she was lucky, too.”
“That’s only because I was able to fool her.”