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- Author: Alice Duke
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TESSA
YOU WOULD THINK that it would be impossible to have a moment while a
car alarm is going off beside you. You’d be totally wrong.
I’m having one right now.
It’s that glimmer in his eye. I’ve always been a sucker for glimmers and
this one glints with the glintiest. Is that a word? I’m not sure I care.
He’s twinkling at me as we share this moment — two strangers caught
up in a scene of sheer ridiculousness as we look over the hood of a car at
each other. The owner of the car is oblivious, of course, caught up in the
frustration of seeing his day totally ruined. Understandable. He’s turning the
air blue as the Pacific Ocean and I can only make out the odd word or two
with his alarm screaming in the background. He’s fortyish, a bit soft and
bearded, and his hands look like they don’t even know what a wrench is, so
this is all beyond him.
“It’s the security feature,” I try to call over the noise.
It doesn’t help that my mouth is full of the best taco in the world but
that’s not really my fault since we’re literally parked in front of Patrick’s
Tacos. Which, I will grant you, is the worst possible name for a taco food
truck. I grabbed a taco right before Forty-ish asked me to help boost his
ride.
“I don’t know what’s happening!” he yells, reaching to tug at the
booster cables linking our batteries together. I see one drifting toward the
black cable like he’s going to remove that one first. My mouth is just
forming an “O” of warning.
To my relief, Twinkle-eyes bats his hand away, makes eye contact with
me again, and laughs. It’s like he’s talking to me without talking. He’s
saying “What have we two stumbled upon here and is someone going to
end up dead and chronicled in a book about strange accidents?”
“It won’t start because the security features think it’s being stolen,” the
man with the twinkle in his eyes tries to tell Forty-ish.
He’s not listening. That’s panic in his eyes now, the look of a man who
is so far out of his depth that he’d take refuge on the Titanic if it sailed by.
Look, I’d be irritated, too, under any normal circumstances. I really
would. Car alarms aren’t my idea of a good time.
But the young man with the twinkling eyes is about my age and he has a
dimple. Did I mention that? There’s grease in the fingerprints of the hands
that are adjusting those booster cables and the best grin I’ve ever seen. I’m
not normally one for blonds, but that tousled hair is working for me and so
is the day-old beard and the rippling biceps. And that tan. Maybe the sun
worships him instead of the other way around. I could see it. Push over sun,
I’ve got this now.
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