Episode 127: Still Holding On

Avalon opened a roll of quarters and let them crash into their rightful slot in the register drawer. She ran a hand through her long dark hair. "I am talking to you Bowie; I’m just... I’m a little stunned, a little speechless. People don’t tell you everyday that they’re accidentally engaged. Especially not people who are normally levelheaded except when said person they’re engaged to comes into the picture. And, might I point out that said people come in and out of the picture an awful lot."

"I know it doesn’t make any sense," Bowie said briefly hanging his head and then raising it with a sheepish smile. "But, it wasn’t so much spur of the moment, I mean I did think about it for a solid 2.3 seconds there and then when I realized she said yes without me even having to ask the question, I kind of thought, may as well, everybody’s got a fifty-fifty chance, right?"

Ava hugged herself wearily, tears beginning to stream uncontrollably down her face. "I don‘t mean to... I don’t know... it’s just that nothing feels predictable anymore. I come into work every day not knowing if this place is being turned into some kind of theme park, and I’ve got a practical stranger asking me out and now you, you’re acting all... I just; I want something to be the same again."

Bowie put an arm around her. "Hey, it’s no big thing our engagement will probably be broken within the week-"

"Don’t say that," Ava said reeling in her feelings. "My best friend gets engaged and I make it about me. Very nice. I guess Sebastian was contagious."

Episode 128: The Messenger