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She hugged him back. “Deal.”
28
Make Her Happy
“This is the best Valentine’s Day ever,” Gillian said. She was almost hopping in place while they waited in line to get their tickets.
“We haven’t even started yet.”
“I know,” she said, looking around. “I’ve always wanted to do this.”
“Why haven’t you?” he asked.
He’d asked her what she wanted to do for Valentine’s Day. He was willing to take her out to eat, but most people did that. She’d told him no jewelry at all. Nothing like that. She just wanted to do something fun.
He said sure, you pick.
Little did he know she’d pick snow tubing in Vermont.
Snow! Urgh.
Did she forget he’d spent over the last decade of his life in California?
But he’d do anything she wanted because he wanted to make her happy.
After their mini fight, they were getting there. At least in his eyes and he was positive in hers.
He didn’t want to say it seemed to him that a weight had been lifted off her shoulders, but maybe one had.
She shrugged as they moved up in line. “I never had anyone that wanted to do it with me. And it has nothing to do with Mike. So don’t think that. This is something I wanted to do in college before I met him and all my friends thought I was nuts.”
“I’d think college kids would eat this right up,” he said.
“So did I, but they didn’t. It’s fine. Then I got older and figured it was silly. You can see it’s full of kids here.”
“And parents,” he said. “We are younger than a lot of these parents or the same age.”
“I know,” she said. “Really, I appreciate you indulging me in this. It’s not your cup of tea.”
“A cup of tea would go down well right now,” he said, rubbing his hands together. He had a winter jacket, gloves and a hat, but they were the clothing he used to clean the snow off his property. Not something comfortable to play in.
Last week, he’d gone to the sporting goods store and bought a thinner, yet warmer, jacket and much better gloves and hat and picked up the same hat and gloves for Gillian. They had checked the site and saw they recommended goggles, so he got them both a pair of them too. She’d laughed and thanked him and didn’t give him a hard time.
In his mind that was a huge win. He’d never wanted her to think he was trying to buy her love with money or anything like that. His wealth never even came up much other than in the beginning and he didn’t think much of it now and he got the feeling she didn’t either.
He’d never worried about it before and didn’t want to do that now.
She bumped into him and laughed. “You’ll have fun. We can only be on for an hour anyway. It won’t be that bad and the sun is shining and it’s not too windy.”
It’d taken them almost two hours to get here. He’d purchased the tickets online, but they had to register and get bands for their wrists. He supposed that was how they kept track of how many people they let on at once. There were still fifteen minutes before their time to get on the mountain.
“You’re right. Great conditions. Then we can find a nice place for dinner on the way back. I’m sure I’ll need it.”
“We will most definitely do that,” she said. “I’m sure we will both be so exhausted after walking and up and down that neither of us is going to want to cook.”
“Masters,” he said when they got to the window. They were given their bands to slap on and told that it would be announced when they could get on the mountain but to go pick out their tubes and the rules would be explained all at once.
They waited around with the rest of the people, Gillian shifting excitedly in place like the kids around them were.
