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He held the door open. “I’ve only had my generator switch on a few times since I’ve lived there. Or if it does it during the day I have no idea. But I’m glad I thought to put it in.”
It was something his father talked about but never did. Not that Knox cared if he was inconvenienced by no power, but the older he got the more comfortable he wanted to be.
Going twelve hours with no power would have made the house cold and much more boring with two twenty-year-olds there. If it was just he and Sage they could have cuddled up in bed during that time, but no way they’d do that with houseguests.
“Sage, is that you?”
Sage turned her head from where she’d been looking at him. “Brit? No way. What are you doing here?”
He knew the name. The one who said shitty words so he’d hear and think poorly of Sage.
“My parents bought this restaurant two years ago. I manage it now,” Brit said. “And who is this?”
Sage grinned and winked at him. “Remember Knox Bradford back in eighth grade?”
Brit frowned and then laughed. “Oh yeah, that short nerdy kid that had a crush on you. What a dork.”
“Well, now I’m the one who has a crush on Knox,” Sage said, then turned to him. “Knox, do you remember Brit?”
Brit’s mouth opened and closed. “No way. You’re not Knox.”
“He is,” Sage said. “I moved to Mystic back in the spring for work. He’s got his own business there and we just ran into each other.”
Brit was looking back and forth between them. “Wow. What do you know? You turned out better than I thought you would.”
“Gee,” he said sarcastically. “Thanks for that.”
“I’m just kidding,” Brit said. “We were all at an awkward age back then. You know what it’s like.”
“Yeah,” he said. “It’s what kids do. Talk crap about each other. Can we get a table?”
“Sure,” Brit said, getting quiet. “Sorry about back then. I guess maybe I was more at fault than others.”
He shrugged. No reason to agree or disagree.
All he wanted to do was get his dinner and put this petty shit behind him.
When they were seated, he said, “Did you know her family owned this restaurant?”
“God no,” she said. “This is the last place I would have gone if I’d known that. I remember her father was a chef or something back then. I haven’t talked to her or had any contact since graduation. I had no clue she was back in the area. I’m sure if we didn’t run into each other, I’d never know. Are you okay with the way I introduced you? I mean I don’t know if I just said your name if she would have caught on and now I’m wondering why I even care.”
“She would have at some point,” he said. “It’s fine. There is a part of me that found it funny.”
“And part that maybe it was embarrassing. I don’t normally do things like that, but I guess I wanted her to see that the crappy things she said back then didn’t mean it was the truth today. We all should learn that lesson.”
“It’s all good. She apologized in her way.”
“But didn’t mean it and you know that,” Sage said. “I’m thinking I shouldn’t have done what I did.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
He didn’t want her to feel bad.
Deep down he knew her intentions weren’t mean.
“I still feel bad. This is horrible, but I wanted her to see that I got this hot successful guy and then when she found out who it was, it’d be this double twist of the knife for her. That is petty on my part.”
He smiled. “You did get me. Not sure hot is the word anyone would use.”
