Welcome to the A to Z Challenge! I am excited to share with you some meet cutes (and maybe some sexy scenes) throughout the month of April! Richard is going to be chiming in with a few of his characters from his Hallmark story, too! Here is the next installment, but stay tuned every day (except Sundays) this month for a short scene! Like and comment, and maybe I’ll continue the more popular stories in May!
– Jayden
“I play all the woodwinds,” he boasted.
Oh really? I wondered. I didn’t want to butt into the conversation the couple on the train was having, but I wanted to call him on his obvious bull shit. There are a lot of woodwind instruments.
Lucky for me, I didn’t have to.
The woman said, “Even the oboe?”
There was a pause, and I wanted to turn and look at him so badly, but they were behind me, and I didn’t want it to be obvious that I was listening to their conversation. I had one earbud in, but I had long before paused my music to listen in on the conversation. Was it wrong of me? Maybe. But they were in a public place, after all.
When I sat down on the seat on the train, I didn’t pay them much attention except to note that they appeared to be on a date. They seemed slightly awkward with each other, and there was a lot of that first date little touches that indicated they might want to take things further.
I wondered if they were going to the event at the aquarium. My stop was a few past there, so it would be obvious if they were.
Finally, he answered her, “Okay, so not every woodwind, but most of them.”
Ha.
The doors opened at the aquarium stop and he said, “This is us.” They stood and I watched them leave the train.
I couldn’t help but chuckle and wonder how the rest of their date was going to go.
I felt the brush of someone sitting down next to me, and I glanced in his direction. “I couldn’t help but listen in on their conversation,” he said to me confidentially. I raised an eyebrow at him. “Not-oboe man and his date,” he clarified.
I smiled. “I tried not to listen, but it was too hard.”
“Right? I would bet money that there won’t be another date.”
“Seems unlikely,” I said.
“What about you?” he asked, “Would you be up for a date?”
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J R Vincente 