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that he might have to change it but deciding against mentioning it.
    He headed to one of the private dressing rooms in the gym.  As he left he pulled his phone out of his bag and saw the missed call from Holly.  He was about to check his messages when he noticed who was working out in the gym.
    Zoe was squatting holding a medicine ball over her head.  It wasn't exactly the most flattering movement but it was her outfit that really caught Kelly's attention.  What little there was of it.  He stood frozen, staring at her until Jeff looked up and saw Kelly looking.  Jeff started to say something, but then Zoe realized Kelly was there.
    "Hey," she called out.
    "Hey," Kelly called back and then, because he felt like he needed to explain why he was standing there he added, "I got it."
    "Oh that's great," she said and stood up.  She lowered the medicine ball and hugged it to her midsection, breathing heavily, "We're going to do a movie together," she told Jeff.
    "Great," said Jeff, "Care to get back to work now?"
    Zoe laughed and looked back across the room at Kelly, "Save me Kelly, now I've pissed him off."
    "Can't help you," Kelly said, "He'll take it out on me next week."
    They both laughed and then looked at Jeff who was not laughing, not even close.  Zoe let out a little squeak and raised the ball up over her head again.
    "Where was I?" she asked.
    "At the beginning," Jeff answered and Kelly winced for her.
    "Bye," Kelly yelled and turned to leave.
    "Oh yeah, save yourself," she called after him and he left the building smiling.
    He listened to Holly's voice mail in the gym vestibule and by the time he jumped into the limo he was in an even better mood.  He decided to wait until he got home to call her back.  He would have plenty of time to do that before he went out surfing.
    As it turned out though, he didn't get out to the beach that night.  After he and Holly had talked, again for more than two hours, it was getting dark.  Kelly didn't mind.  The time had flown by and besides his arms were fried from the workout earlier.  The only thing about the conversation that bothered him was that Holly was still insistent that the idea of Kelly flying back east to take her to dinner was ridiculous and she didn't want him to do it.   He had chosen not to argue with her and dropped it.  But with each passing day he wanted to see her again even more and he resolved to keep trying to make it happen.

Chapter 10
     
    Holly parked the car and turned it off.  It was five thirty and there were plenty of spots.  But the restaurant was only a block away and Kelly wasn't going to be there until six.  She had been nervous about being late, now she was too early.  She listened to the song play out on the radio, then she turned the car off.  When she got out of the vehicle she regretted it instantly, the heat coming off the pavement was scorching.
    She walked quickly to the sidewalk and the tree lined street was only a little bit cooler.  She checked the time again, but only a couple of minutes had past.  The first shop she came to was an art gallery and she walked in, hoping to kill some time in the air conditioning before Kelly got there.
    When she opened the door, and saw the oil paintings hanging on the wall, she got a little excited.  She always enjoyed looking at other artists' work.  She turned left and headed over to the first painting.
    It was a fall scene, multicolored trees surrounding a lake.  Holly had painted a similar scene, several times in fact, and she studied the painting, analyzing the colors used and the brush strokes.  She glanced back behind and around her, and it looked like more of the same artist, but she couldn't be sure.  She turned back to the wall.
    "Excuse me?" a voice said behind her.
    "Hi," Holly said, turning and smiling.
    "We're not open, actually, we're getting ready for an opening tomorrow night."
    "Oh," Holly said, startled, "I'm so sorry, I'm meeting someone for dinner down the block