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“Oh, it is. It’s also the stupid game I grew up playing. That was how Jimmy Wayne was my first kiss. He ran faster than me.”
“Almost as romantic as mine.”
I laugh. “At least I know he wanted to kiss me.”
“Ouch!” he says, laughing. “That was a rough one.”
“Sorry.” But we both know I only half mean it.
“And did your father have words with his dad?”
“It was the first day of kindergarten and we were six, so I never mentioned it. But I’m sure my father wouldn’t have been upset by it. He met my mom the same way.”
Beau laughs. “A family tradition, then?”
“Of sorts.” My parents had thought it was kismet when Jimmy Wayne and I began dating, so if I’d told them about how we met, they would have planned my wedding to him starting in kindergarten.
“My parents did not have such an eventful first meeting. Their first date was a double date with another couple. They’ve been inseparable since. Nothing as magical as sexual harassment tag.”
I elbow him and he laughs. The breeze picks up. “I didn’t say it was magical.”
“Are your parents still married?”
“Going on forty years pretty soon.”
“Then maybe it was magical. Who meets their soulmate at six?”
I sigh. “Not me.”
“What are they like? Your parents. You met mine, so I’m curious about yours.”
“Mom is your typical southern housewife, except that she works.”
He frowns. “How’s that?”
“She takes pride in her home but works two jobs, so it’s hard for her to keep the house up. Although she might be retiring soon from one of them. I’m not sure—
“How do you not know when your own mother is going to retire? And two jobs?”
I nod. “She’s a supervisor for 911 dispatch. But that’s the job I think she’ll retire from soon. She also volunteers at the animal shelter.”
“And your father?”
“He is the manager of a lawn care company. Mom’s been trying to get him to retire for years, but he’s too stubborn. He—"
“So, it runs in the family?”
I glare at him. “You know, one good nudge, and you’re going in the water.”
He grins. “Continue.”
“Dad is the kind of guy who is determined to do everything himself. Doesn’t trust anyone else to do it.” The only person he ever trusted to help with house repairs was Jimmy Wayne, but Beau doesn’t need to know that. “He, even still, does his own gardening.”
“But he works for a lawncare company.”
“Yep. No one can touch his grass, blah, blah, blah. But it’s been a long time since I talked to either of them, so who knows? He might have given in on that.”
“What do you mean?”
