It’s the Saturday before Valentine’s Day, and that had me thinking about Chapter 14 in Don’t Tell My Heart It Can Heal. That’s the chapter where the singles from Hatfield Falls Christian Church and other churches in the area get together for a games night and not a Valentine specific activity. Here’s how the night started…
“Taking attendance?” Blake sidled up to Henry, who was watching the door to the youth room at the church where the singles night was happening this month. Thankfully, his mother had not been successful in her quest to have February’s activity be a Valentine’s banquet. Instead, they were going to play games, watch some old movie, and have a time of worship – and not on Valentine’s Day.
“Nope. Just waiting for someone.”
“Hey, Princess.” Blake doffed his imaginary top hat to Cari as she entered.
“Peasant,” she said with a pointed look and a scowl.
Blake chuckled. “She likes me. She just pretends not to.”
“Yeah, I’m not so sure about that,” Henry said.
“She hasn’t slashed the tires on my truck, and she says hello when I see her at the apartment building.”
“I’m still not sure that means she likes you.”
Blake shrugged. “It’s good enough for me. Now, who are we watching for?”
“Trish. She said she’d come tonight.”
“Yeah? That’s kind of a big deal for her, isn’t it?”
“It is.” Trish had been coming to church for several months now, but tonight was the first singles night she had agreed to attend.
Henry checked his phone. “I haven’t gotten any messages telling me she can’t make it.”
He had honestly been expecting one all day. After all, he had told her at Gran’s three days ago that he wanted to marry her, and she still wasn’t past the “we’re just friends” phase. While she had said he hadn’t scared her away, he wasn’t so sure she wasn’t going to change her mind on that.
“Text her,” Blake suggested when Henry looked at his phone again. “She’s probably just running late.”
Or just running – as far away from him as she could go.
[from Don’t Tell My Heart It Can Heal]
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