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“Yeah, me either.”
“What are you doing now?” she asked then took a sip of water from her glass.
“Not too much. I saved a bit of money, and I’ve been thinking about starting my own business. Lately, I’ve just been relaxing and enjoying life after all the craziness over in Afghanistan.”
She nodded.
“What kind of business?”
“I forgot how much you like asking questions,” I said with a chuckle.
“I’m sorry. When I get nervous, I tend to ask questions to keep the conversation going.”
“You’re fine. It’s cute.” I unrolled my cloth napkin and put it on my lap. “I guess I’m not sure what type of business I want to run yet. With my background, maybe a security firm or something.”
“It must be nice to have enough money saved up to not need to work for a while.”
“Yeah, I guess. My expenses were super low the two years I was over there, so I saved a lot.”
“Maybe I should join the Navy or something.”
I smiled.
“What about you? Boyfriend?”
She glanced away a moment, avoiding my eyes.
“Not really,” she said in a noncommittal voice. “You?”
“Still single. I’ve been thinking about that night…”
I stopped talking as the waitress returned with our bottle of wine. She poured us each a glass before leaving. Jade lifted hers into the air.
“To finding friends years later.”
“To moving relationships to the next level.”
She stared into my eyes as we clinked our glasses together. I took a sip of the expensive wine, enjoying the bittersweet taste in my mouth.
“That’s good,” she said after taking a drink of her own.
“Maybe I’ll open a vineyard.”
“You’d have to move out of the city.”
“That’s true. There’s too much here I’m interested in right now.”
“Yeah? Like what?”
“Well, Maggiano’s, for one.” I joked. “Then there’s you…”
She glanced away again, looking down at the table covered in a white cloth.
“You’ve thought about that night, haven’t you?”
“Yeah,” she said. “I mean, once or twice. Not excessively.”
The waitress returned with our salads. I wanted to press Jade for more, but I backed off. We ate quietly for a minute.
