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“Anything that you’re hungry for?” I ask as I climb behind the wheel.
“I’m not too hungry. Maybe just a sandwich place or something?”
“Sure. I know a deli nearby.”
“Perfect.”
We take off towards Clark’s Deli. It’s close to the beach with the biggest and best sandwiches I’ve ever had. I went there for lunch with some of the guys on one of my first days of work.
“I’ve never been here,” Lila says as we pull into the parking lot.
“It’s good.”
“What do you usually get?”
“A club sandwich.”
“Ohh, that sounds good. I’ll get that too.”
I smile as I hop out and round the hood to open her door. I take her hand in mine and we head into the deli. I head up to the counter and order for the both of us. Lila heads to grab us a booth, and I grab our sandwiches and bags of chips and head to join her.
“How was your day?” I ask.
“Good. Busy,” she says, popping a Dorito in her mouth. “I got a new client, so I was working on their stuff all day.”
“It’s cool that you get to pick your own schedule and work from home.”
“Yeah, I like it. Sometimes I miss socializing, but then I remember the traffic here and I get over that pretty quickly,” she says with a laugh.
We each take a bite of our sandwiches, and she smiles at me.
“This place is really good!”
“I know. Plus, it’s huge.”
“What did you do today?” She asks me.
“I was doing a test in the pool.”
“What kind of test?”
“We bind the candidate’s hands and feet, and then they have to sink to the bottom of the pool and push off to go back to the top.”
“Whoa, that sounds tough.”
“It can be. You just have to stay calm and steady your breathing.”
“You’ve done it before.”
“Yeah, I did all of the same tests and training when I was in BUDs.”
“I don’t think that I could pass,” she admits, and I smile.
“You seem like you’re stronger than most people realize.”
She gives me a pleased smile, and it feels like I’m ten feet tall. I want to make her look at me like that every single day.
We finish our sandwiches and Lila tells me a bit more about her new client and the work that she does as we drive over to the beach. I park and we look out at the dark coastline. The wind is whipping sand around as waves crash down hard on the beach.
