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Drive Me Home Excerpt
“How upset are you about going off schedule?” she asks as we walk back to my car. I parked in an area that would be central to the places I planned to take her, which is not at all near where we are now.
“I’m not.” Stopping in the middle of the sidewalk, I turn to face her, my pulse ratcheting up. “Why would you think that?”
She nibbles on her lower lip, and if I wasn’t holding her shopping bags, I would reach out and stop her. “You had our whole afternoon organized, and I completely disregarded that and went off course. I don’t want you to think I don’t appreciate your planning or that I ruined things.”
If her vulnerability at this admission wasn’t written all over her face, I would scoff at the ridiculousness of it. “You didn’t ruin anything, Roo. So we didn’t stick to the original plan. That doesn’t mean the detour was any less fun.”
She studies my face, eyes wary, as if looking for deception. But it only takes a moment for her shoulders to relax. “Learning about the tea party was fun.”
I love how she says tea party as if it’s afternoon tea at a hotel rather than over one hundred American colonists protesting against British taxation by boarding ships and dumping their tea into the Boston Harbor.
“I’m not.” Stopping in the middle of the sidewalk, I turn to face her, my pulse ratcheting up. “Why would you think that?”
She nibbles on her lower lip, and if I wasn’t holding her shopping bags, I would reach out and stop her. “You had our whole afternoon organized, and I completely disregarded that and went off course. I don’t want you to think I don’t appreciate your planning or that I ruined things.”
If her vulnerability at this admission wasn’t written all over her face, I would scoff at the ridiculousness of it. “You didn’t ruin anything, Roo. So we didn’t stick to the original plan. That doesn’t mean the detour was any less fun.”
She studies my face, eyes wary, as if looking for deception. But it only takes a moment for her shoulders to relax. “Learning about the tea party was fun.”
I love how she says tea party as if it’s afternoon tea at a hotel rather than over one hundred American colonists protesting against British taxation by boarding ships and dumping their tea into the Boston Harbor.
