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Mine found his as if unable to look anywhere else.
“All set for your week in Wellington?” he asked.
“I hope so.”
“How many appointments have you made?”
I grimaced. “I think I might have overdone it. I’m not familiar with the roads yet, and I’ve a couple of meetings too close together at different hospitals.”
“Quick tip,” he said, staring at the wheels of my car. “If you’re ever late for an appointment, just run your hands over your rental car’s tyres and get them a little dirty. Then when you walk in to see the doctor or staff nurse, ask to use the bathroom to clean the muck off, telling them you had to change a tyre.”
I snorted.
“You’re terrible,” I said.
“You have no idea,” he replied with a grin.
I smiled.
He looked at me, and I looked at him, and then he said, “Wanna go get a drink tonight?”
I opened my mouth to answer him, when Heather came tearing out of the warehouse, waving a folder in the air.
“You forgot this, girlfriend,” she called.
“Oh, damn,” I said and walked across the carpark to meet her.
It was only after I’d been talking to her for a couple of minutes that I realised Michael had gone.
When I made my way back to my car again, a note was lying under the wipers.
Next time, it said.
And for the first time in a long time, I wanted next time to be right then.
