eat!"
Darla brought the food to them and they tucked in. Guy enjoyed the meal, the spice was just right and the fish itself was delicious. Darla had given them all some homemade lemonade along with their meals, which she told him Adeen had made, so to blame her if it was too bitter.
Guy spoke with Monika about her job as assistant to a special needs child in junior high.
"So you are basically attending school again?"
"Yeah it feels like that sometimes. I am studying social work at community college, so I get to do my studying while he is taking the class. I'm right at the back, so if he needs anything I'm right there."
"Will you go with him to High school, or take on a new person in junior high? I find it so fascinating and great that there is someone like you doing this job, so all kids can get an education."
"I will go to the high school, if I haven't found a social work job by then. That I'm dreading, at least they are just little kids in junior high, but high school?" she shuddered, then laughed as she looked at the face of her young niece.
"It's not that bad, I promise,” her mom told her.
After dinner, Adeen offered herself and Guy up for washing and drying the dishes. Her mother chastised her, but Guy said it was no problem, he could pick Adeens brain about her favourites authors.
"So," he said, as he picked up his first dish to dry, with a slight smile, then, he said “Whats your ulterior motive here? You pin me outside the front door and question me and interrogate me over dinner, what you playing at young'en."
"Well, I just want to make sure that you are a good guy for my mom, that's all."
"But, Adeen, your mom and I are not dating. We hardly know each other. I know, to you it probably felt like forever that your mom was gone, but it was only two days, that's not long enough to start dating someone." Although, he has done that before, but it didn't go well at all.
"That may be so that you are not dating now, but I saw how my moms face went all weird and smiley when you called her earlier, it's the same face she makes when Chris Rock is on t.v, and she looooves him."
He didn't know what to say, kids do see things for what they are sometimes, as the silly adults try to hide their feelings. Then he remembered what Darla had told him earlier that day even, she waits months when she is dating a guy to introduce him to her daughter, there is no way this is a date, or a pre-date.
"I don't know what to tell you, there is nothing going on."
"So you don't like my mom then?"
"Your mom seems great, as I said I don't know her very well."
"It's been a while since mom introduced me to anybody, I just guessed you were into each other. I think you should ask her out on a date,” she smiled a big silly smile like her moms when she said this, and turned her head at an angle looking at him, like she was trying to see into his mind about what his feelings were.
"Well, we will definitely see each other over the summer, I mean I don't have any friends out here, so it would be nice to meet up when I come to the mainland once a month."
"Once a month! That’s not enough, you need to come over, like every weekend!"
"I'm here to work Adeen, I need to get this book written, or my editor and publishers will take me to court! You wouldn't want that now would you?"
"No, but how long will it take you to write the book?"
"Well so far I have not written anything, so it's going to take me quite a while."
They finished up in the kitchen, with Adeen telling him her ideas for the book she would write in camp this summer, she wanted to set it in space and have the astronauts on the space station getting highjacked by an alien spaceship and towed back to their own planet with them, where they were going to be held for ransom of some sort. Meanwhile the aliens grew to love the astronauts who tell them stories of earth and sang them songs, which to the aliens was amazing as they had no musical instruments and
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