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“Oh, definitely that.” She took a sip of her drink, her eyes not leaving his. “Thanks, Matt. Not just for the day, but the talk. There is more to you than I thought and I’m sorry I never gave myself the opportunity to find that out.”
“Don’t be sorry, just take advantage of the here and now. See, nothing wrong with living that way.”
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STUMBLING BLOCKS
“You think I need to learn to cook?” Matt asked Anya the following Wednesday.
It was her turn to pick the date. A cooking lesson was her surprise for him.
“You’ve only taken me out or ordered food,” she said smartly. “Maybe it’d be nice to get a home-cooked meal.”
“I think you need the lessons,” he said. “Because you haven’t offered to cook for me either.”
His lips were pressed together, his chin lowered, his eyes popping out in a silly face.
She burst out laughing.
“Burn on me,” she said.
“Is that what you do? Burn things?”
She bumped her shoulder into his.
He liked the funny banter they had.
He didn’t push as much as he would have in the past. Everything in moderation. It was better this way.
Something he should have learned a long time ago.
Better late than never.
He was learning it with the right person in his mind.
“I’ve burned a few things when I was learning years ago. I think I’m a wonderful cook.”
“You’ll have to show that to me,” he said.
“This is a date night cooking class. Not basic lessons. We are going to learn how to make something.”
“Oh,” he said. “Even better. Do you know what we are cooking?”
“I do.”
They got out of his car and walked to the front door and he pulled it open, then saw the sign.
“Sweet,” he said. “Surf and turf.”
She giggled. “I remember you eating a lobster one day when we were kids, then stealing the rest of Phoebe’s when she couldn’t get the meat out of the claws.”
“I said I’d do it for her,” he said, laughing.
“You did. Then you ate it in front of her. You offered to help with mine too, but I knew better.”
“I wanted to help you first,” he said. “I had no intention of eatingyoursthough.”
Matt remembered it was the first she’d had lobster and loved it so much. He’d never play that kind of joke on her.
