Page 8 of Forever with the Mountain Man

FELICITY

Yes, that’s fine. You’re an entrepreneur

But for the record and before this goes any further…I will never become Catholic or Basque. So, speak up now or forever hold your peace

FIERCE

Wait, isn’t that what they say at weddings?

It is

And for the record, I will never get more educated or smarter than I already am, which isn’t saying much

You’re smart enough to be funny. That’s all that matters to me

I smile broadly. She has not relegated me to the idiot heap after all.

ME

We’ll see what the priest has to say about what really matters

FELICITY

Wait, you’re serious about confession?

Maybe

You’re incorrigible

It’s your pictures’ fault

Your curvy body’s fault

My dirty mind’s fault

But my poor, innocent tongue will be saying the Hail Marys

My guess is your tongue’s the dirtiest part of you

I’ll let you be the judge of that

I still don’t get it, though

Get what?

Get why you’ve been so persistent over the past few weeks to talk to me when you knew all along this couldn’t go anywhere because of your family

They won’t like it

But I never said it won’t go anywhere

So, you’re telling me you’d risk your family’s disapproval and the priest’s consternation for a girl like me?

Yes, I’m a 36 y o man with my own mind

I make my own decisions, too

And what makes you think I’d want to put up with the kind of welcome you just laid out? A family who hates me? A church that wants nothing to do with me?

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