That didn't tell him anything, but he didn't want to push her. This was about her brother and maybe she didn't want to overshare. It did make him wonder if there was something he was missing other than the obvious, that he shouldn't have hired someone he was attracted to.
"Now you're worried," Gwen noticed.
"I can't help it," he said.
"Don't get tied into knots about this. You're both good guys," she told him.
"So there isn't some fatal flaw in this arrangement?" he asked her.
"Maybe that you're both too nice?" she said with a shrug.
Bailey stared at her. "I can live with that."
He didn't think he was that nice though, but Matt might be. A little later Matt texted to ask if they needed anything, if he could do any shopping for them or anything else.
"I'd love to have a barbecue," Bailey texted him back. He wasn't serious though.
Matt's reply was, "Done."
"What?" Bailey said out loud and Gwen turned to look at him questioningly. "I told Matt I wanted to have barbecue and he said, 'Done'. I was joking."
"How is that a joke?" she wondered.
"I mentioned to him that there is no grill here. It got rusted and hauled away with the trash," Bailey told her. He was already texting Matt to find out what he meant by that one word text.
"I'm picking up some BBQ to thank you for hiring me," Matt said.
"He's treating us to barbecue. I guess I have to be careful what I ask for or he'll make it happen," Bailey said.
"Yeah. You have your own personal genie now," Gwen said. "This is one of the things I was worried about. Matt jumps in with both feet. When he sees a way forward, he just shoots straight for it."
"Like the way he went after this job as the manny," Bailey said.
"Who knows what he might go after next," Gwen said and gave him a significant look that he didn't actually understand. He was about to ask her if she meant that Matt might quit to go after some other job, but he then noticed that Louise's parents were calling her.
As she went off with them, Joey ran over with important news, "Louise said she made a big sandcastle with her dad. We have to make one too and we have to make ours bigger."
"How big was theirs?" Bailey asked.
"I don't know," Joey said but he didn't seem to realize that might be an issue.
Instead of pointing out the flaw in his plan, Bailey asked Gwen about dinner. "So it seems we have barbecue coming. Do you have time to eat with us before you have to go to work?"
"I'll see when it's getting here," Gwen said and got on her phone. "I'm also telling Matt to slow the hell down."
"Will he listen?" Bailey wondered.
"Nah," she said then she winked at Joey who was looking up at them.
"What got your interest? Maybe the mention of barbecue?" Bailey asked.
"She said 'Matt'. Is he gonna come over?" Joey wondered.
"Yes, with barbecue," Bailey told him. "Let's get some more chairs out here. It will have to be chairs from the kitchen that don't belong outside."
"Will we get in trouble?" Joey asked and Bailey laughed.
"Big trouble," Gwen told him, but Joey could tell right away that she was joking.
