“Anything you want.”
“Anything?”
He nodded, then pulled out his phone. While I told him what I wanted, he typed something on his phone, and when he was done, he told me the food would be out shortly.
I wasn’t sure who he communicated with, but so far, it seemed like Coye had a lot of money and power, at least in the town. I didn’t know he was coming like that because he’d always just been regular to me. He always looked like he had money, but he was so humble about it.
Someone entered and placed a bowl and a plate on the small table on the side of me that I didn’t even notice.
When I noticed what it was, I turned toward Coye with a big ass smile.
“Coye. How?”
“How what, River?” He smirked. He knew exactly what I was talking about.
On the table were my favorite two snacks—grapes and graham crackers.
“How did you get these here?”
“Just thought I would do something to make you as comfortable as possible. I want you to enjoy yourself.”
Before I could respond, the lights dimmed, and the movie began to play. My head whipped over to him so fast, and he sat there with a goofy grin on his face.
Not only did this man have my favorite snacks, but we were also watching one of my favorite movies. The movie hadn’t been in the movies in over thirty years, and here we were, getting ready to watch it.
“Watch the movie.” Coye put his arm around me and settled into his seat.
I was still surprised by the things that had transpired so far. I couldn’t imagine what else would happen.
It felt right with his arm around me, so I got comfortable and watched the movie like he told me to. I couldn’t help reciting the words, but I tried to whisper them.
“I can hear you, River,” Coye teased.
“Sorry. You know Jordan and I know all of the words. I’m surprised you ain’t saying them.”
“I’ll leave that up to you. I think our food is coming.”
I looked up to see the same person from earlier and another person carrying our food and drinks.
They placed everything on the tables and ensured we had everything we needed before they left.
Once they left, we focused on watching the movie and our food.
“When did you start liking me? You said it’s been a while, but what’s a while?” I had to ask the question because I couldn’t believe he liked me. It wasn’t that something was wrong with me, but I was sure Coye had his pick of the litter, and I was his best friend’s little sister.
It took him a moment to respond because he was in the middle of eating.
“I’ve always thought you were pretty, but maybe like within the last year or so, I started looking at you differently. I thought it was a one-off thing, but the feeling never went away. I couldn’t wait to come around just so I could see you. You haven’t noticed how much I’d been coming to get cookies?”
“I did, but I just thought you loved the cookies.”
“I do, but it was the only way I could see you without being obvious.”
When Coye started coming to the shop multiple times a week, I didn’t think anything of it. I just thought maybe he loved the cookies so much or was buying them for someone else. I would have never guessed it was about me.
“You can’t be eating all of those cookies. Are you?” I glanced in his direction.
Coye was too fit to be eating sweets all the time.
