My name on his lips did something to me and I paused.
“Stay?” he asked.
I stared at him for a long moment, and then settled back onto my stool.
Making good on his word, he warned me every time someone headed in our direction so I could lower my head, letting my hair fall like a curtain in front of my face. Meanwhile, we drank, our wariness toward one another wavering as we batted silly questions back-and-forth.
“All-time favorite movie?” I asked.
“Ooh. That’s hard. Can it be in a certain genre?”
“Nope.”
He propped his elbows on the bar and put his face in his hands. A moment later he popped back up.
“The correct answer is Aliens.”
“Good call,” I said. “Too bad they ruined that storyline with the third film.”
“Absolute travesty. Now you. What’s yours?”
I swirled the lemon peel around the edge of my drink.
“You know, I’ve answered this question so many times over the years for interviews, but every time I’m asked, I still have to think for a minute, just in case another movie has knocked it from its spot.”
He tapped his watch. “You’re stalling.”
“I didn’t know it was a timed answer! Pride and Prejudice? No. The Matrix! No. Pride and Prejudice!”
“Which is it, Flynn?”
I snort-laughed and then hiccuped, covering my mouth with my hand, my head light from the two and a half drinks I’d had. So much for moderation.
“Pride and Prejudice.”
“The hand flex?”
“It’s sooo dreamy…” I leaned my head on my hand and stared blurrily off into the distance. “Though Keanu Reeves saying ‘I know Kung Fu’ is fun as fuck.”
“Cheers to that.” Graham clinked his beer glass to my coupe. “Hey. Heads up.”
I tilted my head forward, letting my hair fall forward again while he pretended to be very interested in the drink menu Cole had left for us to use as a shield.
“She’s gone,” Graham whispered.
I tucked a lock of hair behind my ear and set my glass down, watching the shimmer Cole had added swirl around the bottom.
“This was… fun,” I said.
“You look confused,” he said and I laughed.
“I guess I am.”
“Or maybe just drunk.”
“There is a high probability of that too.” And before I knew what I was saying (thanks, alcohol) I started talking about my morning. “This is actually the second time I had drinks today.”
“I know.”
