Page 41 of Family Bonds: Coy & Angel

“See,” he said. “Not a health freak. But I believe you had a big cookie and a piece of pie too.”

“Guilty,” she said. “And I’d do it again.”

It was this easy banter the two of them had that he loved.

He had it with Spencer too, only that was different.

This was something more that he told himself not to even think about.

“But you only had one candy bar during the movie.”

“I didn’t want you to judge me,” she said. “It was hard deciding between that and the gummy bears.”

“If you’re not doing anything this weekend, maybe we can try for another movie and you can have your gummy bears. Unless of course you bought some to hand out and will have them tonight.”

She laughed. “I didn’t buy anything I like because if I don’t get any trick or treaters then I’m stuck with them all and that’s not a good thing. The last thing I need is a cavity and have to get you to fix it for me.”

“Aww, you’d let me do it?”

“You don’t think I’d go to another dentist on or off the island, do you?” she asked pretending to be hurt.

“In that case, if I need to have anything repaired in my mouth, you can do it for me.”

She burst out laughing. “We are warped, aren’t we?”

He held his finger up in a pinch. “Maybe just a little.”

“I like working here, Coy. It’s more fun than I thought my first job would be.”

“I’m glad to know that,” he said. Which told him maybe he had to tread carefully to not make it a hard situation for her.

“We should get to work,” she said. She opened her drawer and took out some sugar free gum and popped it in her mouth.

“Toss me a piece,” he said.

“Don’t you have to brush your teeth and gargle first?” she asked, wrinkling her nose. “You just had coffee. I had mine at home.”

“Doesn’t mean I might not want a piece of bubble gum.”

“I don’t blow bubbles with it,” she argued.

“You do,” he said. “When we are sitting here at night doing our notes you snap and pop your gum.”

She handed him the package. “No, I don’t.”

“Yes, you do.”

“Why haven’t you said anything?”

“Maybe I find it cute,” he said.

She stared at him and he figured he pushed it. “You mean cute for a kid,” she said. “Like annoying.”

“That too,” he said, laughing.

“I’ll be more aware, but that also means I’m going to be watching out to see if you do it too.”

He laughed. “I won’t.”

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