“Drink?” Trey’s question brings my attention back to him.
“Whatever you have.” I walk to where he’s placed a plate with a napkin and fork waiting for me on the white marble countertop.
He pours me a glass, but the door from the refrigerator hides what it is. “Enough about me. I’ve already met Elena, but tell me more about what you left behind in New York.”
Trey slides the glass full of dark liquid he poured for me across the counter before he scoops up two pieces of pizza and sits beside me on a tall stool.
“I told you all of it on vacation. I’ve been working for a promotion like this since I started. I didn’t expect to move to California to get it, but I couldn't pass up the chance.” I take a cautious sip of my drink and am pleasantly surprised it’s pop.
“What’s Elena do when you two aren’t lying on the beach?" he questions when the conversation lulls.
As much as she annoys, me I’m so proud of my little sister and won’t pass up the chance to praise her to someone else. I’d never do it to her face. "She’s at home with my parents in Buffalo right now working on her final year of college getting an education degree. She wants to teach in an inner city school. Her plan was to come live with me in New York, but I’m not sure what she’ll do now.”
“You two sound close. I bet they miss having you at home.”
I finish chewing the big bite of food I’d taken before I answer. “I didn’t get home as much as I should have even in New York, but I think my parents are ready for us to be out of the house. They’re both travelers and have planned some big trips once Elena is on her own.”
“Are you planning to go home for the holidays?”
“I don’t know, but my old boss, Jay, has already said he’s coming to visit me this spring. He keeps emailing me links to all the places he says we have to visit."
I laugh as I remember the last email from Jay where he demanded I take him to Alcatraz so he could see a ghost. I eye rolled him until I read the attached article, which did made the place sound a little spooky.
“Jay, huh? Yes, I’d like to meet this Jay as well.” Trey isn’t laughing with me. The possessive side I’m starting to pick out in him is in full view again.
“Yes, and if I’m lucky he’ll bring his girlfriend, Stacy, because she’s one of my closest friends in New York.”
He smiles and shakes his head knowing I’m on to him.
