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“Did I tell you that we have to go by the craft shop, you and I,” Beth said as she ate another piece of salmon sashimi. Jessica wanted to say yes it was just the hundredth time, but she wouldn’t. Knitting was Beth’s secret relaxer and if the scarves and sweaters were any indication, she needed to de-stress a lot.
Beth and Jessica had gone to school together with Parker. All three had advanced together and found out that they loved science. Beth and Jessica loved math; Parker loved physics. To help with Beth’s dexterity, she was taught knitting and crocheting. She never forgot it.
“So, you went to the store and only came back with the one bag?” Jessica asked shocked.
Beth popped a piece of mackerel in her mouth. “Okay I’ll confess, I sent two bags back to my house.”
“So, when you did that, did Clay see your address?”
Beth waved her chopsticks in the air. “Please, every year you ask me about me and Clay and every year we say the same thing. We don’t like each other because we don’t trust the type.”
“The type being?”
“Pretty people. We know our own when we see them.”
Jessica just waved off Beth’s protests. “Well, if you don’t like each other, what took so long on the walk?”
“Oh, Clay was trying to convince me that Brian might be a decent human being,” Beth said.
Another tray of desserts came out. Four small mochi balls of ice cream. The vanilla ice cream was in the middle and the white rice cake wrapped around it was called mochi. Jessica looked at them as she tried to form her next question in the most nonchalant way.
“What could he possible say that you didn’t already know?” Jessica said as she popped a mochi in her mouth.
Beth stopped eating. “Hold up. You are not letting this know it all get to you are you?”
“When was the last time I could stand to be with a know it all?”
“On top of that he wasn’t very nice,” Beth said eating another piece of sushi. “You know you did date the cable guy and the other guy who was a professor of art. I just don’t want you to be a serial dater.”
“A serial dater, wow there’s a name for it.”
“I don’t mean that… exactly,” Beth said.
“No, I get it. You don’t want me to just throw myself at anyone because no one can seem to stay with me,” Jessica murmured.
“Okay, don’t do that because now I feel like the lowest of the low. There’s nothing wrong with you or me.”
“Yeah, I know you’re right,” Jessica said and popped another mochi in her mouth. She bit down on it and swallowed. Brain freeze was her reward for trying to run from the situation. While she was holding her head she thought to herself, what was she doing? Always picking guys that just knew they knew more than she did. Maybe she had been picking the wrong guys. Certainly, Brian didn’t count.
Brian was all the things those other guys weren’t. He was starting to be a nice guy. Jessica hadn’t realized until now that she wanted to be with a nice guy.
“Earth to Jessica.”
Jessica looked up from her mochi and smiled. What made Brian so different? Jessica mulled it over while Beth extolled on all the things she could see about Brian.
“He’s so tall.”
Jessica really liked his height.
“He’s so gruff. You know, no one in Peace thinks he’s fun, at least that’s what I heard in the supermarket when I was shopping. Because he’s new I hear whispers about him in the market and the restaurant next door.”
Fun was overrated, according to Jessica it was better to do something useful.
“Worst of all he’s attractive.”
Jessica waited for the problem to come to her that he was attractive, but it never came. It was frivolous but she did think that Brian’s looks had put her off at first, but she had grown up knowing that pretty usually disguised cruel.
“I’m saying there is so much wrong with Brian that it would be easier to just wait for Mr. Right. I don’t know why you and Clay don’t try it. I mean you both like accounting. You work in the same company and you both like each other.”
