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Episode 736: Halfway There

"The store looks pretty good, don’t you think?" Ava popped a French fry into her mouth. They sat together at the bookshop’s coffee bar, dining on fast-food takeout.

"I would hope it looks good by now, every muscle in my body is aching from setting this up." Bas gestured to the Halloween decorations around the shop, pretty much every inch covered in pumpkins, cobwebs, and broomsticks, and anything else that gave off a haunted, though not too scary vibe for little ones. "You must feel the aches and pains, too."

"I am, but, it’ll be worth it." Avalon sipped from her strawberry shake. "Events seem to do well for the bookstore, so hopefully things will stay on track and the bank won’t regret giving us that loan. I don’t know where we’d be right now if you hadn’t managed to swing that."

Bas focused on bathing his fries in vinegar and ketchup. "It was nothing. I know how much making a go of this means to you, and that’s what I explained to the guy who gave me the loan." Or at least to the guy, namely his dad, who had arranged with the bank to give Sebastian the loan so it would look on the up and up.

"My, um, Calvin," every other day Ava seemed to change her mind about what to call her dad. "He’s still convinced that there had to be more to it than speaking from your heart. He was talking about it just the other day at lunch, he-"

"Shouldn’t he be focused on the wedding and convincing you to let him walk you down the aisle?" Bas just wanted the guy to focus on something other than that loan and how Bas got it. He was quite happy to distract Ava from that topic as well.

Her expression bunched up. "The walk down the aisle isn’t something I’ve really considered."

"Kind of like the wedding itself," Bas said. He’d hesitated to push her on the subject not so long ago, but with her dad fishing around he didn’t want to wait, he needed that added sense of security in their relationship.

"I’ve been considering the wedding for a long time," she said, digging through her fries as if finding just the right one required intense concentration. "It’s… I’m always thinking about it." She wanted to marry him, she was almost certain of it, she just… she just had such bad memories, such lingering heartache over her previous wedding day. No matter how many times she told herself it would be different, she couldn’t seem to work up her courage to go there. She would though, she really would.

"You think about the wedding all the time," Sebastian said, "but you don’t really do anything about it. So," he paused, and he smiled, though something about it didn’t seem quite right, like he was nervous maybe.

Ava was certain his nerves had nothing on hers. She started eating fries in hopes her full mouth would help free her from giving firm answers about their wedding just yet.

"I’ve found someone to move the planning along," he said, "and she doesn’t even want a dime, Lila just wants to help.

Ava promptly had a coughing-choking fit around her french fry.

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