Sabrina beamed, blushed, then blinked in confusion. "What? Zojurn? No? I just made her go away?"
"No, no, your friend. I hope she didn't confess to messing with people's heads until you were at the front so you could see the concert."
"Oh! Hah! Well, I mean…" Sabrina looked guilty, and Luke laughed.
"Good for her. And you. And also that kind of makes sense, doesn't it, letting the short people stand in front. Although I guess that'd suck for us if we went to a concert. We wouldn't be able to stand together."
"No, but I could probably sit on your shoulders," Sabrina said wryly. "Maybe not for three hours, but…" She exhaled and stepped closer, smiling up at him crookedly. "Okay, well, got any other big surprises for me?"
THIS! IS! OUR! MOMENT!!! TELL HER!!!!
For once, Luke kind of agreed with his rabbit. He hesitated, trying to figure out how to broach the subject, and Sabrina's eyes widened. "Oh. Oh, jeez, I was kidding. You actually do have another surprise?"
GO LUKE GO!
Please be quiet,Luke said desperately to the rabbit, and then aloud, "I do, but it's…it should probably wait until we're back in Virtue. It's more personal than my career. But not bad," he said hastily as worry came into Sabrina's eyes. "Honestly, it's not bad. I'm not sick or anything. Or married. Or the father of a dozen secret love children."
"Good grief, I hope not. Um. Okay. Are you sure you don't want to tell me now?"
Luke tilted his head and groaned at the distant desert sky. "I can't right now, because you literally wouldn't believe me. It's very much a 'needs visual proof' kind of thing."
When he looked back at her again, Sabrina was downright smirking. Heat swept his entire body, not in a sexy way, and even his rabbit collapsed, melodramatically gaspingRoasting! Rabbit!inside his head. Luke, faintly, said, "Oh my God. Not that either. I mean I don't think I'm a physical embarrassment, but…it's not in 'seeing is believing' territory."
Sabrina began to giggle, and Luke's blush worsened. He put his face in his hands, and Sabrina's giggles turned to outright laughter before she pulled his hands down, stood high on her toes, and kissed him. "I really like you, Gym Bunny Jones, and I'm really looking forward to getting back to Virtue so I can find out what it is I have to see to believe."
It's me,his rabbit said, confused.I'm what she has to see to believe. What does shethinkshe has to see to believe?
The rabbit you want me to show her,Luke replied, and broke down in laughter himself when the rabbit blinked at him, baffled.
"We should go back in," Sabrina said, grinning. "We should definitely go back in, because if we don't and anybody notices, I'm going to catch hell for sneaking off with my hot boyfriend instead of staying with Mindy on her big day."
"Isn't sneaking off with a groomsman a wedding tradition, though?" Luke offered his arm.
Sabrina slipped her hand into the crook of his elbow, smiling. "I don't know, I've never snuck off with one before, and I'm not tonight, since you're not a groomsman. You look fantastic, though. I don't think I said, before."
"I don't think you did," Luke agreed as they went back in. "You were too busy being flattered by my architectural observation of your columnar-ness."
She snickered. "You're more foundational, I'd say. Just for the sheer size of you. But you do look great. I'm—oh. Uh-oh. Incoming." She nodded toward Jan and Gina, who were beelining toward them without their men in tow.
Gina hissed, "IknewI recognized him," at Sabrina from several feet away, and Jan said, "Derekfollowsyou," to Luke, who raised his free hand apologetically.
"Sorry. I wasn't trying to fly under the radar, but I never assume anybody is going to recognize me."
"Derekdid!" Jan repeated in deeply personal outrage. "He just didn't say anything until we saw the commotion and I wondered what that was all about. He was all like, somebody probably recognized Luke, and I was like, what do you mean, recognized him, and he was like, he's Gym Bunny, you know, the fitness influencer I like? and I was likewhat do you mean he's an influencer!?!?!?' and Derek was like jeez, I didn't know you'd think it was athing. It's a thing," she said, now to Sabrina, slightly aggressively. "Why didn't yousay?"
"Honestly? Because I didn't know until just now, either. Luke didn't want it to be athing. And I can't blame him, you know?"
Jan's eyes widened. "Whoa. That's a big secret."
"I don't know," Sabrina said thoughtfully. "I think it makes sense. Being famous, even a little bit famous, has got to be kind of weird. It must be reassuring to know somebody likes you for who you are."
Gina said, "Aww," and even Jan softened a bit as Luke's rabbit saidshe wuuuuuuuuuvs us!!!!!
That is not what she said,Luke replied, amused.But she likes us. Which is good.
"All right, well, Mindy wants to talk to you," Gina added. "You, Sabs, not Gym Bunny here. Is that okay, if we steal her from you for a while?"
NO!!! THEY CAN'T STEAL OUR! FATED! MATE!!!
