COOL BEANS by Erynn Mangum

Author:Erynn Mangum
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2010-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

It’s six o’clock, and I still haven’t gotten ahold of Jen. I’ve called her seven times, left four voice mails, and texted her three times, but she still hasn’t responded. I’m hoping that means she’s still at work and dinner got called off.

I slip my phone into my back pocket, lean on the counter, and look around the store. It’s nearly empty. A cute redhead and a nice-looking guy are talking quietly on one of the couches by the fireplace. Jack’s mopping in the back, and I’m lazily organizing the front counter area.

Mrs. Mitchell is not a nice person. She’ll tell Travis to back off and that Jen’s waiting for a Kennedy.

I sigh at a huge green mug.

On the one hand, then Travis would be single.

I blink and straighten.

What?

What is this? I’m turning into a psycho!

I hurriedly put the mug away. And just what would happen then? Jen and Travis break up, and he’d come running back to me? He doesn’t even recognize me! And even if he did, what did I think would happen? We’d live happily ever after?

I’ve already thought that once.

By all intents and purposes, it was a “mutual” decision to break up. But really, it was him. He moved to Stanford; we were one year into the whole long-distance thing; and we were both getting frustrated.

“Pattertwig?” Jack breaks into my thoughts, and I startle.

“Yeah?”

“Can you come help me for a second?”

I follow him to the back, and he hands me the mop.

“You mop while I tip the shelves back,” he says, grunting as he lifts.

I swoosh the mop around a few times, and he sets the shelves back. “Thanks.”

“Welcome.”

“You okay?” he asks as I walk back out to the front.

“Fine.”

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