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along
the coast.
Old Joe played piano Monday
through Thursday. He was a Rossetti’s institution and young people
started taking photos of him with their phones and posting them on
Facebook. Serena started hiring small groups to play Friday and
Saturday nights, and Brittany promoted that on Facebook.
When Serena got home every night,
exhausted, Nonna greeted her with a brandy or glass of wine. They sat
at the kitchen table for a while, talking about the day behind them.
“ Oh, Nonna,” Serena said one
night. “I totally forgot to show you how to do text.”
Nonna smiled. “It’s okay,
honey. I figured it out for myself.”
“ Oh,” Serena said. “Are you
doing a lot of texting?” Serena wondered who her grandmother could
be texting. She couldn’t imagine that the senior crowd was doing
much of that.
“ A little. I text with Jeff and
a couple of other people.”
“ Jeff?” Serena was more than
a little surprised.
“ Yes, Jeff. He’s Italian, you
know. He even speaks Italian. He sends me texts asking how I’m
doing. And I text him back.”
Jeff had texted Serena a few
times since the last time she’d seen him. He asked how she was and
she texted back that she was fine.
“ He’d like to come for a
visit,” Nonna said. “And I told him yes. I want to see him.”
“ I want to see him too,”
Serena said, decisively. “I’d really like to see him.”
“ Good,” Nonna said. “Because
he’s coming this weekend.”
Serena wasn’t expecting that.
It was one thing to say she wanted to see him, another to have him
actually coming that weekend.
“ He’s staying here,” Nonna
said before Serena could ask.
“ Okay. Good,” Serena said.
She guessed it was good. She really didn’t know the status of
anything with Jeff. But Nonna seemed to like him, and that was
something. Definitely something.
Chapter
Six
On Friday night, Serena was
sitting at the bar sipping on a glass of chardonnay when Jeff walked
in. She didn’t see him come in, and suddenly he was sitting on the
barstool beside her. He ordered a martini.
“ Hey, stranger,” he said.
“ Hey,” she said. “Nonna
told me you were coming this weekend. I was getting ready to go
home.”
“ I was thinking after we leave
here, that we could go to the beach. It’s a full moon tonight.”
“ Okay,” she said. “She
hadn’t been to the beach in a while since she’d been spending
every second of her day at Rossetti’s. “I guess I need to let
Nonna know I’ll be in late.”
“ I’ve already told her,”
Jeff said.
“ Oh. Well of course you have
since you’re text buddies now.”
“ Does that bother you?” he
asked.
Serena realized she did feel a
little jealous about Nonna’s relationship with Jeff, but then
thought how ridiculous that was.
“ Of course not. I’m glad you
and Nonna seem to have hit it off.” She smiled at him then.
They finished their drinks and
left Rossetti’s. Jeff led her to his car and they drove to the
beach. Jeff took Serena’s hand and they walked along the shoreline
with the full moon shining its light down on them. The tide brought
the waves, over and over again. At one point, Jeff stopped and put
his arms around Serena and kissed her. She kissed him back. She
didn’t realize how lonely she was, how stressed out she had been,
until that moment.
“ I miss you being in Atlanta,”
Jeff said. Serena found that sort of hard to believe, given how
noncommittal their relationship had always been. She didn’t even
know if Jeff saw other people, but assumed that he did.
“Bridgewater’s is different now. They’ve dropped the Steak
Daniel. That was my favorite.”
“ They had to do that since they
fired him,” she said.
“ That manager, what is his
name? He told me how sorry he was for you to leave. He said he
offered you the head chef job.”
“ That’s true, he did. But I
had already committed to come back to Luna Bay and work at Rossetti’s
by then.”
“ I know. Your
the coast.
Old Joe played piano Monday
through Thursday. He was a Rossetti’s institution and young people
started taking photos of him with their phones and posting them on
Facebook. Serena started hiring small groups to play Friday and
Saturday nights, and Brittany promoted that on Facebook.
When Serena got home every night,
exhausted, Nonna greeted her with a brandy or glass of wine. They sat
at the kitchen table for a while, talking about the day behind them.
“ Oh, Nonna,” Serena said one
night. “I totally forgot to show you how to do text.”
Nonna smiled. “It’s okay,
honey. I figured it out for myself.”
“ Oh,” Serena said. “Are you
doing a lot of texting?” Serena wondered who her grandmother could
be texting. She couldn’t imagine that the senior crowd was doing
much of that.
“ A little. I text with Jeff and
a couple of other people.”
“ Jeff?” Serena was more than
a little surprised.
“ Yes, Jeff. He’s Italian, you
know. He even speaks Italian. He sends me texts asking how I’m
doing. And I text him back.”
Jeff had texted Serena a few
times since the last time she’d seen him. He asked how she was and
she texted back that she was fine.
“ He’d like to come for a
visit,” Nonna said. “And I told him yes. I want to see him.”
“ I want to see him too,”
Serena said, decisively. “I’d really like to see him.”
“ Good,” Nonna said. “Because
he’s coming this weekend.”
Serena wasn’t expecting that.
It was one thing to say she wanted to see him, another to have him
actually coming that weekend.
“ He’s staying here,” Nonna
said before Serena could ask.
“ Okay. Good,” Serena said.
She guessed it was good. She really didn’t know the status of
anything with Jeff. But Nonna seemed to like him, and that was
something. Definitely something.
Chapter
Six
On Friday night, Serena was
sitting at the bar sipping on a glass of chardonnay when Jeff walked
in. She didn’t see him come in, and suddenly he was sitting on the
barstool beside her. He ordered a martini.
“ Hey, stranger,” he said.
“ Hey,” she said. “Nonna
told me you were coming this weekend. I was getting ready to go
home.”
“ I was thinking after we leave
here, that we could go to the beach. It’s a full moon tonight.”
“ Okay,” she said. “She
hadn’t been to the beach in a while since she’d been spending
every second of her day at Rossetti’s. “I guess I need to let
Nonna know I’ll be in late.”
“ I’ve already told her,”
Jeff said.
“ Oh. Well of course you have
since you’re text buddies now.”
“ Does that bother you?” he
asked.
Serena realized she did feel a
little jealous about Nonna’s relationship with Jeff, but then
thought how ridiculous that was.
“ Of course not. I’m glad you
and Nonna seem to have hit it off.” She smiled at him then.
They finished their drinks and
left Rossetti’s. Jeff led her to his car and they drove to the
beach. Jeff took Serena’s hand and they walked along the shoreline
with the full moon shining its light down on them. The tide brought
the waves, over and over again. At one point, Jeff stopped and put
his arms around Serena and kissed her. She kissed him back. She
didn’t realize how lonely she was, how stressed out she had been,
until that moment.
“ I miss you being in Atlanta,”
Jeff said. Serena found that sort of hard to believe, given how
noncommittal their relationship had always been. She didn’t even
know if Jeff saw other people, but assumed that he did.
“Bridgewater’s is different now. They’ve dropped the Steak
Daniel. That was my favorite.”
“ They had to do that since they
fired him,” she said.
“ That manager, what is his
name? He told me how sorry he was for you to leave. He said he
offered you the head chef job.”
“ That’s true, he did. But I
had already committed to come back to Luna Bay and work at Rossetti’s
by then.”
“ I know. Your
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