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I don’t suspectmuch exercise as an usher at this movie theater

My vocab sure isn’t expanding exponentially

“How’re you holding up on your first Friday night shift?” asks Vince e take a short on-the-clock break at 8:15, the pair of us sitting in the back row of a theater we just cleaned “See what I et?”

I don’t want to disappoint him, but the workload feels like a lot of the same as the weekdays, only withnod “Definitely”

“Don’t get overwhelhts die down fast because everyone goes to church early the next h his phone, bored, then yawns tiredly “Shift can’t end fast enough Hey, you aren’t squeaht? Dumpster duty is the worst on Fridays”

Isound “Lookin’ forward to it,” I reply dryly, earning a chuckle from Vince

With him busy on his phone, I pull out my own

Unless one of e actually bothers to hit e, there’s really only one person I’d be sure to have a e from, and we all knoho that super, special, cocky individual is

But my phone shows no notifications

Just like it did this afternoon And this ht when I woke up early for a little jog

And last night before I went to bed

And yesterday after dinner

And during my shift

In fact, I haven’t gotten a dang thing fro his ankle Wednesday

What a weird thing to joke about, by the way

“Waiting on your boyfriend to text you?”

I flinch, then give Vince side-eye “He’s not my boyfriend”

“Who?”

“Jimmy”

“No, I uy?”

I stare at him fully “Uh, no I’m not Who told you that?”

“My sister She said you’ve got plans to go on a date with him tomorrow on your day off, in fact Out in Fairview”