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stomach tingled again. How did he make my body have such magnificent reactions?
     
    “I’m looking forward to it,” he added.
     
    I was giddy. I had to try to contain myself. Breathe.
     
    Mindy would be beside herself when I told her he had asked me out. Pee-her-pants excited , she would say.
     
    I inhaled deeply and said, “I’m looking forward to it, too.” I instinctively bit my lip; bad habit I had. In that instance, it was my way of making a weak attempt to flirt. I wondered if it were working.
     
    The sun was still glinting in the window, this time blanketing a magical gold color around the room and across Mr. Yummy’s face, not directly in his eyes now, though. His face sparkled as the dust motes glided effortlessly through the air. As he turned around to leave he pivoted on his heels and then he walked backward for a few steps, waving goodbye all the while.
     
    I must have been dreaming. Dropped down in front of me was a little piece of heaven, and I was grateful. Okay, that was corny, but seriously, I was excited.
     
    Abe chuckled from the corner of the room; once again, I ignored him. The more I ignored him maybe the sooner he would cross over. If I looked his way, it would only encourage him.
     
    Callahan disappeared out the door and around the corner.
     
    I couldn’t wait to ring Mindy to tell her the exciting news. Across the street, peeking out from the window watching me, I noticed a little head. I swear I could sense the hate from all the way across the street, wafting through the air like stink from a skunk . Brianna was glaring at the scene of Callahan leaving my store, and I knew it really pissed her off to see him anywhere near me.
     
    She was none too happy. By the glare on her face, I could tell she was quite possibly declaring war on me. Operation Get Rid of Larue.
     
    I turned away from the window and tried to force her evil stares to the back of my mind. I scrambled over, grabbed my cellphone, and punched in Mindy’s number as fast as my fingers would dial. After several rings, she finally picked up.
     
    “I was ready to hang up. What took you so long?” I snorted.
     
    “Aren’t you Miss Impatient today? What’s so urgent? What’s going on?”
     
    “Oh, nothing much. Other than gorgeous coffee shop owner just came over here and asked me out for dinner tomorrow night,” I said casually.
     
    I nonchalantly studied my pink-painted nails, as if she could see what I was doing through the phone. I was totally in control and calm. All right, who was I kidding? I was panicked.
     
    “Get out! You’re kidding me? You can’t be serious!” she yelled.
     
    “Would I kid about something that serious? Seriously. And, for that matter, is it really all that unbelievable that he would ask me out?”
     
    “No. No. That’s not what I meant. Okay, maybe that’s what I meant, a little.” She laughed.
     
    “Very funny,” I snorted.
     
    “I want every detail,” she demanded.
     
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t record the conversation, so I don’t have every detail. He just came over and bought a book.”
     
    “Which book?”
     
    “Does it really matter which book?”
     
    “Of course it matters which book. Don’t be silly. I mean, you can tell a lot about someone by which book he reads. Was it for him or was it a gift?”
     
    “It was for him; at least he said it was.”
     
    “All right then, so was it like a self-help book? Because he could have some serious issues he’s trying to correct.”
     
    “Um… No self-help books, no how to rid yourself of an annoying best friend book or anything like that either.”
     
    “Funny.”
     
    “Don’t worry, it was Stephen King’s latest.”
     
    “Oh well… I suppose that’s all right. Continue.”
     
    “Anyway, as I was saying, as he was paying for the book he asked me out to dinner.”
     
    As I said the words aloud, a rush of panic flooded me just thinking about my closet. What was I going to wear? I had no date