Comparing With The Past
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“What do you think about Nancy?” Honestly Ted didn’t really care what Fawn thought. He just liked talking about his girlfriend. The way she looked last night… and how she kissed…
“She doesn’t know you, Ted.” Fawn flipped her hair back.
Nancy didn’t have enough hair to flip back. Which was fine ‘cause it left her hands free to hold. “She knows enough.” He shrugged, popping another French fry in his mouth.
“She doesn’t know you like I do.” His friend laid her right hand over top his left.
Ted moved it away, uncomfortable. Didn’t Fawn know he had a girlfriend now? “She knows different stuff.” He could talk to Nancy about the future he wanted without being criticized… or reminded that those dreams had changed dozens of times in so many years.
Fawn leaned closer, her hair dangling dangerously close to the ketchup. “She’ll never have the history we have. She won’t have the prom or your first table tennis win or…”
Or memories of him being humiliated at football tryouts or that eating contest where he barfed all over his neighboring contestant or… Ted pushed those memories away. “Nancy sees me how I am now, Fawn.” The confident man that he now was.
Fawn’s lips curled back in what resembled a snarl. But only for an instance, so quickly that he thought he imagined it. And then she was smiling again. “I’m your friend, Ted.” Another clasp of his hand. “You like her and I’m sure I will too. But all I know about Nancy was what I saw yesterday. And maybe that wasn’t her best day.” Best day? Nancy appeared top of form to Ted. “How about we go on a date, a double date, you, me, Nancy and Patrick?”
Ted’s frown deepened. A double date? Share Nancy?
“Please Ted, it’ll be good for us. I want Nancy and I to become friends. We can’t do that if we don’t spend time together.”
That made sense… and he did want them to be friends. His good friend, his girlfriend. “Uh, okay, I guess.”
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Read more about a much older Nancy, Anne’s business partner, in Breach Of Trust, available May 2008
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