Page 13 of Searching for Sadie
"Well, I kinda figured that out with the Fipp’s Electrical truck in your drive."
"What about you? What do you do?" Jackson asked.
All eyes turned to her, and she seemed to once again squirm in her seat.
"Ummm... I actually used to work at a recording studio before I moved here."
"Really?" Lucas asked.
“Mmm -hmmm”, she nodded.
"Did you live in the city?" Jackson asked again.
"The city. No. But I'm from a city. I moved her from Nashville."
"You sing country music?"
"Me? No. I'm not a singer."
"Well, singer or not, you should come down to Elbow for karaoke tonight."
"That might be fun," she said looking up at Lucas. Something about the way she looked to include him settled deep inside of him.
"I'm always up for the Elbow Room," Lucas said.
Then she smiled. He was counting this one. Three smiles for him.
"Do you want to walk around and take a look?" Lucas asked her. He thought she might like to meet more people. It wasn't hoping for a little more alone time with her, at least not all of it.
"Oh, yeah." She moved to stand. "It was really nice to meet you," she said to Jackson and Sam.
"You too, we'll see you around."
Lucas gathered the trash, and they made their way over to the trash can.
"I can't believe Liam James has a house here."
"Yeah, and I'm not sure if you follow hockey, but the star player for the Glendale Magic is from here and one of his teammates spend a lot of time here since he's dating the bookstore owner. Have you heard of Conner McPhee or Wes Darling?"
"I don't really follow hockey that much."
He scoffed. "It's the best sport."
She smiled at him again. He was up to four and counting. "I've never been much into sports. Music has always been my thing."
"That makes sense. Ms. Maple gave me piano lessons when I was growing up... as she did with the rest of the town I feel like."
"Yeah, she was the best."
They made their way through the crowd coming to the little fairway that had some games setup. The smell of the barbeque and the din of the crowd created a certain kind of nostalgia. That coupled with the fact that he was here with a new woman he may have a little crush on made him feel like he was in high school again.
"So, you worked in music in Nashville?"
Her eyebrows drew together before she responded. "I did. I worked for a studio, but I left that job before I came here."
"What brought you here? Besides the house?"
"Oh," she said, her body tensing slightly beside him.
