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“Yeah,” he said.
“I thought I asked you to keep busy while I take care of business for a minute.”
“I just wanted to see who she was,” the boy said.
Aaron nodded. “This is Jade. Jade, this is Ben. We’re almost done here.”
Ben studied me with a tilted head.
“Do you like basketball?” he asked me.
“I do,” I confirmed.
“Who’s your favorite team?”
“The Seattle Supersonics, of course,” I said.
Ben’s eyes glittered. “Really? They’re my favorite, too. How come you like them when you’re a girl?”
“Girls can like everything boys can, Ben,” Aaron said. “The same way boys can like anything girls can.”
Ben scrunched his nose.
“I used to watch it with my dad when I was little,” I said to Ben. “We would talk about basketball all the time. He used to love the Supersonics, too, and when the games were on, we always cheered as hard as we could, just in case they would end up in the finals like they did a few years ago.”
“That’s so cool,” Ben said, and nodded in approval. “Can we watch basketball together sometime when you work here? I’m turning ten soon, and I want to go watch a game for my birthday if we can find one. Dad says it might be hard since it’s off-season, but maybe we can still do a basketball-themed party. Right, dad?”
“Oh…” I glanced at Aaron. “It sounds really great, especially your party, but I’m not sure I’ll be working here.”
Ben frowned and looked at Aaron. “Can she work here, Dad? I want to watch basketball with her. None of my friends watch basketball, and Jade is cool.”
“I don’t know. We have to take care of a few things––”
“Like what?” Ben asked.
Aaron hesitated, glancing at me. How was he going to tell his son that he wasn’t going to hire me because I just didn’t cut it?
“How about you go back to your room, and I’ll talk to Jade, and we’ll see what we can figure out. We just have a few grownup things to discuss, okay?”
“Okay,” Ben said. He offered me a wave before he disappeared into his room.
Aaron looked down, thinking. He nodded, as if confirming something to himself.
“Miss Weaver, I can’t tell you I’m impressed by this interview, but I’m going to give you a shot.”
“What?” I asked, confused.
“I want to see if this will work. Let’s do a trial period of a month. Usually, probation is three, but I want to be realistic. It’s Ben we’re talking about, and he’s more important to me than anything, so I’m bending the rules.”
There was a lot of that going on today.
“Okay,” I breathed.
“Can you start as early as tomorrow?”
I nodded. I had to be at the office, but I would figure something out to make this work. The last thing I could do was to drop Aaron now that he’d decided I was, for some reason, worth the risk.
“Good. I’ll need you to pick Ben up from school, but I’ll go with you tomorrow to do that, so you see where and what needs to happen. Be here at one tomorrow, and we’ll take it from there.”
