Page 73 of The Plus Ones
Aimee narrows her eyes at Chase. “He’ll say Pocahontas, but it’s really Ariel.”
Chase holds his answer up—Pocahontas, but she thinks it’s the Little Mermaid. “Innocent until proven guilty, babe.”
“I know what I know, babe.”
“Points for Bernadette’s and Aimee’s teams! What does Roxy say?”
“Roxy says it’s the Little Mermaid and he has no reason to lie about it.” She shrugs. “I’d do her.”
I do not need the image of Roxy doin’ the Little Mermaid in my head right now, but I fully expect to get a slap-down as soon as she sees my answer.
“Princess Leia?” she snaps. “She’s not a Disney princess!”
“Disney now owns the franchise. And she is a princess.”
“No point for Roxy’s team!”
“Am I allowed to change my answer?” Matt asks.
“Me too,” Chase says.
Roxy’s eyes are ablaze, but not with anger. She likes my answer. I bet she’d do Princess Leia too.
“Next question!” The manager turns on the Herb Alpert song again. “What movie is guaranteed to make your man cry?”
I swear, all three of us are tearing up just thinking about our answers.
“Marley and Me,” Bernie says, pouting, and she’s right.
Aimee correctly guesses “E.T.”
Roxy says, “Pretty Woman” with a definitive nod, because she would have no idea and she expects to guess wrong anyway at this point.
Toy Story 3is what I wrote down,but Roxy will probably say Pretty Woman.
It gets a laugh from everyone, including Roxy, whose expression also conveys disbelief and fondness and just the right amount of lust for the occasion.
“Do we get anything for that?” she asks the manager.
“Half a point for Roxy’s team!”
She comes over to high-five me. “We’re half right!”
“We’re all right,” I say under my breath. “You just don’t know it yet.”
That gets me a confused look when she sits back down.
“Final question for the ladies, and then we switch over! This one is multiple choice. What does your man irrationally fear the most? One, sharks. Two, ghosts. Three, intimacy. Four, fill in the blank.”
Everyone knows that Matt has a fear of sharks because he grew up surfing, although I’m pretty sure he’s more afraid of belly fat.
Aimee reveals that Chase is irrationally afraid someone will shave off his beautiful wavy hair while he’s sleeping. At a certain time in our lives, I’m pretty sure that someone was me, and I’ll be honest, I did consider it when we were in college. But look how far we’ve come.
“And back to you, Miss Roxy,” the manager says with a wink. I’m starting to think he has a thing for her. “What is Mr. Keaton irrationally afraid of?”
“Socks,” she says.
I have to laugh at that as I flip my board around.
