Love On a Summer Night
“Zander had disappeared inside with her twenty dollars, and returned with a single tray of food—and her twenty dollars.
“Your change,” he said with a wink. Then he turned to Eric before she could say anything. “Hey bud, I need help with the second tray. The pirates inside are holding it hostage. Do you have any gold?”
Eric laughed. “You mean, do ye have any gold.”
“Argh, me matey, I do indeed.” Zander held out a couple of loonies, and Eric took the one-dollar coins and led Zander back inside.
When they returned, Eric crowed about how he’d tipped the pirate behind the counter—the main reason to visit Castaway Pete’s—and they all dug into their lunch.
Eric filled the silence with excited chatter about the library program he was going to for the afternoon.
Zander nodded along, asking questions like how long it would be and how many days he’d take it, and Eric sat up taller and beamed brighter with each answer. But Faith felt like with each question, she was being stripped bare.
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