Page 14 of A Reel Christmas in Romance
With the plan thus agreed upon, she and Josh went through the rest of the theater, room by room. He took plenty of notes, but he didn’t find anything that would be an immediate problem, even with the extra lights and probably a sound system, too, that Mary McKay would be bringing in.
It took almost two hours before Josh was finally done. Before he could escape into the lobby and get to his next client, there was one more thing he could help her with. Marianne grabbed his hand. “Josh, can I ask you one last question?”
He looked down at her hand holding his, then met her eyes. “That depends on what it is.”
“You remember back in high school, spring of our junior year?”
Now he pulled his hand away from her. “Marianne, I’m engaged now. You know that.”
She laughed, more at her own foolishness than his reaction. “It’s nothing like that. I just need a male perspective. Back then, when you were giving me a hard time every day in study hall…”
Now he laughed, too. “And chemistry, and English class…”
“Yeah. Exactly,” she said. “You liked me, right? But you couldn’t come out and say it, so you teased me instead, right? Thatiswhat it means, when a guy does that?”
“I don’t think I ever thought it out like that, but, yeah, I guess so.” He grinned. “Are you asking me because you’ve got somebody doing the same thing to you now?”
“You always were pretty smart, Josh.”
“Thanks,” he answered. “It helps, being engaged to a therapist.” Marianne had forgotten what Josh’s fiancée did for a living. “I can’t help but pick up a few things here and there.”
That was good enough proof for her that Jack Nelson’s teasing last night had been his way, maybe unconsciously, to flirt with her. The next question was, what was she going to do about it?
It was something she’d have to figure out for herself. She certainly wasn’t going to ask Josh, or anybody else, what to do.
