Just In Time For Love (Stanton Falls #1) by Kaci Hart Read Free Book Online Page A

saying as I
was waiting for you to respond.  I was asking how you guys have been and
you sort of zoned out on me.  Aaron was saying it was your inability to
pay attention.  I didn’t know whether he was serious or not but you were
off in your own world for a good fifteen seconds there.”

 
    Nick looked at Aaron
with a look that only the two of them knew what it meant “I’m going to get you
back.”  

 
    “Pay him absolutely no
mind.  He’s an idiot even though he thinks he is a comedian.   I was just thinking how great it is to see
you.  You’re back from school now I presume.”

 
    “Yes but how did you
know I was at school.”

 
    “When you went missing a
while back, I was just interested to see what had happened to you.”

 
    It seemed as if Aaron
wanted to make things even more awkward for Nick.  

 
    “You should have seen
him.   After the third time you weren’t here he was getting the
details.”

 
    Nick jumped in again,
desperately hoping to shut his friend up.

 
    “Thank you for the play
by play Aaron.  Why don’t you get us a table while I talk to her for a
minute?”

 
    Before he could speak
up, Donna looked at her watch and exclaimed.

 
    “Oh my!  I’m
supposed to be somewhere right now.   Listen, it was great seeing you again, but I really have to head off for
work.”

 
    She started off towards
her car, leaving a stunned Nick and chuckling Aaron standing outside the diner.
 She looked back while opening her card door to sit down.

 
    “I’ll see you boys
around.  I really gotta go.  Bye.”

 
    She closed the door to
her car just as Nick was shouting back to her.

 
    “Can I ...”

 
    She was already starting
the car when he finished his sentence under his breath

 
    “…maybe take you to
dinner one day?”

 
    Nick watched as her
small green beetle drove off down the road and turned the corner.  He’d
have to catch up with her some other time.  At least he knew where she
probably got her coffee in the mornings.  

 
    “Sure, but I don’t think
my wife would approve.  Or unless you want to bring her too.”

 
    “Man, what in the world
are you talking about?”

 
    Aaron snickered as he
responded.  He was having the time of his life at his friend's expense.

 
    “You asked if you could
take me to dinner.  I assumed you were talking to me because there was no
one else here.  Donna had gotten in her car and you were just standing
there so there was no way you were….”

 
    “Shut up Aaron.”

 
    Nick turned around and
walked to go inside the cafe while Aaron stood holding the door open for him.

 
    “Why do you say such
mean things to me?  I thought you were my friend.”

 
    Nick gave him a rueful
half grin and walked by to their usual table.    

 
    “Hey man, I thought it
was funny.”

 
    “Right.  And that
is exactly why I gotta find a new best friend.  I knew I shoulda just met you at the office today but no, you wanted
to stop for coffee and embarrass me to no end.  With friends like you…”

 
    Aaron feigned shock and
sadness.

 
    “Whoa.  Now don’t go
blaming me because some woman you used to seriously like had no idea who in the
world you were.  It’s actually hilarious that she remembered me
immediately.  You actually should be thanking me because if I hadn’t been
here, maybe you would still be out there trying to convince her of who you
were.”

 
    Aaron spoke in an
imitation voice of Nick’s earlier meeting with Donna.

 
    “You don’t remember me?
 But you sold me apple pie.”

 
    Thinking back, Nick did
feel rather silly trying to convince her of who he was.  

 
    “C’mon man, she said it
was the hair.  Everybody said I look totally different when I got it cut.
 She remembered the old me so that counts too.  And as for
remembering you, who wouldn’t remember that constantly goofy look on your face.
 For the record, I leave the office