“Hey,” Josh said, smiling as I walked up to the counter. “What brings you by?”
“I had to come to bug you,” I told him, smiling at the woman who was at the register. “I’ll have whatever drink of the day he’s making,” I told her.
“Liz, her order is on me. That’s my best friend,” Josh said.
“More like want to be girlfriend. When are you two just going to admit that you two are dating? It would make everything easier on all of us,” Josie, his boss and co-creator of the many amazing flavors, teased.
“Don’t you know, Josie? I’m too much of a nerd for her liking,”
“Oh, shut up, Josh!” I wadded up a napkin and threw it at him, causing both Josie and Liz to laugh. “We aren’t dating,” I told Liz.
“Yet,” both Josh and Josie said at the same time, making us all laugh.
“Do you not want to?” she whispered, glancing behind her at Josh and I grinned.
“I do. But we’ve been friends for ages. I don’t want to ruin that either. He really is my better half.”
“That’s so sweet,” she told me, dreamily. “Someday my prince charming will come. But until he’s comfortable with a two-year-old who is constantly into everything, I’m going to have to wait.”
“Liz has an adorable little girl, Chelsea. She tried to bring her to work one day,” Josh said, handing me my drink. “We told her to go home.”
“Because she was too much?” I asked, taking a sip of the drink, moaning at the flavors.
“Not even. Because she was so stinking cute that all we wanted to do was play with her. We got no work done. So, I sent her home with pay. I needed to make sure my customers were taken care of, not playing with a baby,” Josie said, shaking her head.
I wanted to laugh but I knew the woman, she was dead serious.
“I can’t wait to meet her.”
“Actually,” Liz piped up, a timid smile on her face. “Chelsea likes lights. I was going to go down Main Ave and join the carolers. She’ll love the singing and the colors. Would you all like to join us? She’ll love the company too.”
“Josh and I are in. We haven’t done that since when we were in high school! Oh, and to play with a little one, sounds fun to me.”
“Awesome. Oh, excuse me, customer.”
I turned to Josh, holding up my drink.
“Best one yet,” I told him. He walked over, kissing my cheek.
“What if I had plans?” he whispered. “We could have had a fun night, ya know.”
“Oh, don’t be so stingy, grinch. Give me your hand.”
He held it out and I dropped the controller into it. He turned it over, his eyes squinting for a moment before he smirked.
“Is this what I think it is?”
“Yup,” I told him, popping the P.
“Oh, it’s going to be a fun night for sure.”
Chapter 11
Josh
Ichecked the time on the microwave, clocking that I still had about twenty more minutes before she got home. After last night, hell, after the last few nights, I think we needed to talk.
It was evident we were both having fun, that we were trying new things and learning new things, like she liked PDA, but in more of a secret way. That whole panty thing when we were singing, yeah, she was soaking wet by the time we got home. It was a high like I hadn’t felt before getting her that turned on.
