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The car behind them honked several times. “Jerk,” Emmy muttered. “Definitely compensating something with that prissy sports car.”
Errin laughed and looked over the back of her seat at the angry middle-aged man with a comb over. He flipped Errin the bird, and she couldn’t help but smile.
“Classic. Now he’s giving me the finger. Like, dude… I’m not even driving.”
Their laughs filled the cabin and after a twenty-minute drive with talks about Lucky, Emmy’s family farm and the Mills family in general,they arrived at the first store.
They found more items for Lucky at two more stores before sitting down in a small Italian restaurant for lunch.
“I can’t believe you’ve never been to a karaoke bar. We’ll have so much fun tomorrow.” Errin took a big bite out of her pastrami sandwich.
“Didn’t you hear me in the kitchen this morning?” Emmy raised a brow.
“Yep.”
“So. There’s your answer,” Emmy said, forking her pasta.
Errin snorted, “You said ‘spatu-laaaaahs’,not quite an audition for The Voice in my book.”
They both laughed until a guy held still at their table for two at the back of the restaurant.
“Emmy?” he said.
Errin looked up from her plate to the man who only had eyes for Emmy, to Emmy who turned white as a sheet. She still held her fork mid-air and her blue eyes stared back at the stranger.
“Hi. I’m Errin. And you are?” she said while sticking out her hand.
The man narrowed his chocolate eyes in Errin’s direction before clearing his head by shaking it. He gave her a smile that didn’t reach his eyes, but shook her hand in a firm grip.
“Kieran.”
Emmy still hadn’t uttered a single word.
Errin leaned over the table and said in a loud whisper to Emmy, “I feel a joke coming. If you don’t say something to Kieran, you’re forcing me to—”
Kieran cleared his throat and said, “Emm. Can we talk? I—”
Emmy stood from the table and walked in the exit's direction. She didn’t speak and just walked out of the door.
“What the fuck?” he said. And although he had a tanned, olive skin color, his agitation showed in his red cheeks.
“Yeah. I’m with you, dude. She’s my ride and I have no idea where the fuck I am right now,” she said.
“You’re Emmy’s friend?” he asked while raking his hand through his black wavy hair.
“Yes. But I have no clue what’s going on,” she said the last sentence as a question. She hoped he would fill in the blanks.
“Any idea where she’s running off to?” he said as he sat down in Emmy’s empty spot at the table, making the table for two seem rather small because of his sizable frame.
Emmy walked back to their table with determined steps, and her head held high.
“Errin, we’re leaving. I’ve just paid, so we’re ready to go.”
“Please Emm. Sit down and talk to me,” he said.
“Goodbye, Kieran.”
Errin glanced over her shoulder at the raven haired man who they left behind, who was giving heated looks at Emmy’s curvy backside. She walked with Emmy to the door of the restaurant but stopped dead in her tracks.
