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“Are you going to hand it out tonight?” Brian asked.
She wouldn’t lie to her boss. He didn’t ask where she was handing it out or if she was doing it alone. “Yes, I am.”
“It’s pretty crazy around Paradise Place on Halloween,” Brian said.
She was going to find out. Hence, the reason she asked if he was taking Harper. She’d like to know if he was going to show up at Cal’s or not, but it didn’t seem as if that was the case.
“I’m sure it is. I can’t remember if Morgan did it or not last year. I don’t even remember if she was in the house. Maybe just got there. She’s doing it this year though. Cooper said he’d stay in the finished basement with the dogs and Leah so they don’t get worked up with the doorbell.”
“We’ll get back in time to hand out candy too,” Brian said. “I’m leaving in a few to get it all done before dinner since it’s only family.”
“Sounds like the smart thing to do,” she said and watched her boss walk out of her office.
It’d been a few weeks that she’d been dating Cal.
They had a lot of fun together. She was looking for even more.
He knew how much she loved handing out candy. Again, one of those conversations the two of them had one day. She swore he knew more about her than anyone else she’d dated for twenty times the length of time.
When he suggested she come over and hand out candy tonight, she jumped at the chance.
Then she realized he probably wanted her to cook for him. Or at least she teased him about it.
He said he’d take care of dinner. Which she knew meant he was picking it up.
She didn’t care one way or another.
At five, she left the office and drove the twenty minutes to Cal’s house. Not a bad commute. She was about twenty-five minutes away, but only ten from Cal’s house.
When she pulled into his driveway, she saw lights on in the house but not the front porch. She supposed that made sense. She’d seen some kids already out on her drive here.
She got out and was going to go to the front door, but the garage door opened so she changed directions and went through that way.
“Hey,” he said to her. He eyed the bag on her shoulder. “Are you going to change?”
“I’d like to,” she said.
“You know where the bathrooms are. No reason to get sauce on your clothes.”
“What did you get?” she asked.
“Pizza and wings. A salad too.”
“It all sounds yummy.”
She moved to the half bath and shut it on him, then changed out of her work clothes and into jeans and a sweater. She had another outfit for work too...just in case the rest of the night went as she hoped.
Not that she said one word to Cal about it, but she was pretty sure he’d have no issues with it.
When she came out of the bathroom, Cal was at the island in his kitchen. Plates out, pizza box open along with the wings and salad.
She dove right in and then started to laugh at the massive bowl of candy on the counter.
She’d offered to pick up candy and he said not to. That he had it covered. Something he did every year and the kids loved it.
“Go on,” he said. “Say it. I’m nuts.”
“You give kids a full-sized candy bar?” she asked. It was obvious. There had to be over a hundred of them there.
