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“Can I get one red wine and a Budweiser?” The man told the waiter before he turned around to face her.
“I’m Mark.”
“Jenny.”
“It’s nice to meet you, Jenny.” The bartender placed their drinks in front of them, and Mark tilted his back and took a small sip. “I see your date has vanished.”
Jenny took a peek over her shoulder and noticed that Brad had indeed disappeared with the blonde. No real loss there, she thought to herself as she turned her attention back to the green eyed blonde. “It would appear he has.”
“His loss,” Mark winked at her as he held up his drink. “To happy losses.”
Jenny laughed at the unexpected choice of words before clinking her glass against his. “To happy losses.”
“So Jenny what do you do?”
“I’m a doctor.”
Mark’s eyebrow shot up. “I didn’t see that one coming.”
“Why is that?”
“I don’t know, if you were my doctor, I think I’d be too distracted to do anything.”
One corner of her mouth turned up. “Does that line always work?”
“You’re the first person I’ve tried it on, how am I doing?” he whispered conversationally. Maybe it was the wine, or maybe it was just that for the first time in a long time she felt desirable, but Jenny laughed quietly and briefly placed a hand on his arm. “It could work,” she said coyly.
“Oh, it could, eh? Well, I shall have to change that then,” he gave her a grin that had her heart skipping a beat.
Jenny wasn’t the type to indulge in one night stands, she just couldn’t imagine being intimate with someone like that and then have them disappear the next day, but for the first time in her life, she found herself contemplating whether or not she could break that rule.
Mark seemed nice enough, and he was definitely making her libido scream, so maybe she could give in just for one night.
What could it hurt?
“What about you? What do you do?”
“I play sports.”
“Like for the NBA?”
Mark chuckled. “Not quite yet, but hopefully it’s my lucky year, for now I just work at a gym coaching until I get my big break.”
“Have you always been a fan of basketball?”
“Pretty much since I first picked it up as a kid. I never really found anything that inspired me to want to be the best until I picked up a basketball and made my first basket.”
“What did it feel like?” Jenny leaned forward suddenly wanting to hear more. She was absolutely captivated by the far off dreamy look in his eyes.
“It felt like everything zoomed in on that one moment when the ball went flying out of my hands and landed perfectly in the middle. I had never felt anything like that, that rush, that stillness.”
Jenny smiled softly. “You sound like you really love it.”
Mark’s eyes snapped to hers. “I do. What about you?”
Jenny ducked her head, feeling shy all of a sudden as she ran her thumb over the rim of her glass. “Well, I know it’s kind of cheesy, but I’ve always wanted to make a difference in the world, and the hospital I work at might not be big in the grand scale of things, but at least in some corner of the world, I’m helping people, making a difference, you know?”
“That’s not cheesy at all,” he said quietly as an absent minded smile played on the corner of his lips.
