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I liked her cocky attitude so much.
“Oh, hey, it’s you. Funny meeting you here.”
“Hilarious.” If she was lying, she was a really good actress.
“You work here?”
I lifted my arms as if to state the obvious. “Yeah.”
“Huh. For a second I wondered…yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking. I think we got off on the wrong skate. I’m Liv.”
She held her hand out and I looked at it for a second wondering if she could really be trusted. Was this all a game? What was pretending not to know me going to get her in the end?
“Come on,” she prompted me. “We’re obviously going to see each other at the rink again, might as well be civil.”
Fine. I shook her hand. “Dillon.”
“Nice to meet you, Dillon. So you like to skate, huh?”
Geez, was she for real?
“You could say that.”
She leaned back on the bar stool as if assessing me. “Couple of broken noses, a killer scar. Really good on skates. Let me guess, you’re in some local beer league?”
“League champions,” I said, without missing a beat.
“Well, I’m sorry if I tweaked your pride a little bit. I sort of have… an advantage when it comes to skating.”
“Let me guess,” I said, leaning my elbows down on the bar. “Former junior figure skating competitor?”
“Junior?”
“You didn’t jump. If you were any good at it you would have been doing those twirling things,” I said, and made a spinning motion with my finger.
She smiled. “Yeah, something like that. So why would you think I knew you?”
“You know how it is. Former high school hockey stud in a small town. Most folks recognize me when I skate. Why would you think I knew you?”
“Ah well, I wasn’t just a competitor. I actually won a few times. You know, back when I used to do the twirls.” She made the same motion I had with her finger and I had a deep rooted suspicion I was getting played. But I was also being entertained so I didn’t care.
“You in Calico Cove on vacation?” I asked her, and yeah, I went there in my head. She was cute. She was feisty. She made me smile, and a little vacation fling, no strings attached, right before the season started, was just what the doctor ordered.
Me, being the doctor.
“Yes, just for a few weeks. I start a new job in September in Portland. So I thought I would come, check out Maine early. I heard about Calico Cove and your beaches.”
“Well, my beaches are amazing.”
She rolled her eyes at my bad, mostly nonsense innuendo.
“Hey, brother,” Wendy called across from the bar. “I thought it was past your bedtime?”
“Bite me,” I barked back, and turned back to Liv who was smiling. “Can I get you something to drink?”
“Gin and tonic with lots of lime please.”
“Coming up,” I said and got to work on her drink.
