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I smirk at him. “So, movie night?”
“What are you doing here, Victoria?” Ben asks again.
“Well, the car never came.”
“I know. I never sent it.”
“Well, that was kind of rude. You said you would.”
“No, what I said was that I couldn’t make you any promises.”
“Well, I thought you were talking about some imagined future relationship or something. I didn’t know you meant the car.”
He crosses his arms across his chest again.
“Do you want me to leave?” I ask, feeling suddenly very foolish for having shown up here.
“No, I don’t want you to leave.”
Relief pours through me. “Well, you don’t look very happy that I’m here.”
“It’s not that I’m not happy you’re here. I just got to thinking about it and decided it would be better for both of us if we just let this be.”
“Let it be…”
“Over. Let it rest. It was fun, but I’m not sure it’s the right choice for either of us.”
“Well, you don’t get to make decisions for me. And I disagree.” I jot that little line down in a mental notebook to show Sally later. She’s going to be so proud.
“I seem to remember you being quite pleased with me making decisions for you.”
I feel my cheeks heat as his words conjure up images of our night together. And our morning. “That’s different.”
“Oh really?”
“Yep.”
“Okay, since you’re in charge now. What did you have in mind for us this evening?”
The sudden change in his tone and the direction of this conversation takes me a bit by surprise. I scramble to pull the DVD back out of my bag. “Scary movie?”
“Is that a disc?”
“Yeah. You must be old enough to remember DVDs”
“I’m just surprised you are.”
“I also brought snacks.” I pull the colorful packages out of my bag and hold them up.
Ben’s eyebrows go sky high as he examines the loot. “Snacks, huh?”
“Yup. You can’t tell me you don’t like Combos. Everyone likes Combos.”
“I haven’t eaten a carb since I was your age.”
“You know, if you keep referring to my age so much, I’m going to get the idea that you have something of a younger woman fetish.”
Ben lifts his eyebrows, and I can see him holding back a smile. “There’s no DVD player in this house, but I’m sure you can find something on one of the streaming channels that will suffice.”
