The Marrying Kind by Monique Miller Page B

weekend?”
    Trying to remain cool in his Wayne persona, Travis said, “I sure do. Front-row seats in fact.”
    She touched his forearm with a tap. “Are you serious? Those tickets have been sold out for weeks. I wanted to go but got the dates wrong, not realizing the concert was on Mother’s Day. And by the time I checked, there were only nosebleed-section tickets.” She wrinkled her nose and forehead.
    â€œSo would you like to go with me?”
    Jade looked at him like he was joking. “Are you serious ?”
    â€œYeah, I’m serious. This is my lucky day, remember?”
    Jade let out a laugh and nodded her head. “You did say it was your lucky day.” She looked down at her cup like she was contemplating.
    â€œSo what’s up? Is it my lucky day or what?” Travis asked.
    â€œMan, I don’t even know you. How am I supposed to go out with a guy I don’t even know?”
    â€œWell you can get to know me, and if you don’t go out with me, then you won’t ever know me, will you?” Travis asked.
    â€œYou’ve got a point, but you are still a stranger. I mean you could be some kind of killer or something. I watch those movies on Lifetime.”
    This time Travis laughed. “I’ve seen a few of those movies on Lifetime too, but I assure you I am harmless.”
    Jade looked down at her watch again.
    â€œIt looks like you’ve got to be somewhere,” Travis said.
    â€œYeah, I need to get back to work.”
    â€œSo is it a yes or no?” Travis smiled. “It’s my lucky day. Maybe we can make it your lucky day also.”
    Jade smiled back. “I tell you what; give me your phone number and I’ll call you to let you know. Let me think about this first.”
    Travis frowned. “Okay, but don’t keep a guy waiting.” “I won’t.” She smiled to reassure him. “Now what is your number?”
    Travis gave her his phone number, which she put into her phone.
    â€œOkay, Wayne. I’ll call you to let you know what I’ve decided. And I promise I won’t make you wait too long.” She looked at her watch again.
    â€œI’ll let you go. I need to go run some errands myself.” Travis led her to the door and opened it for her. She bid him good-bye and headed down the street. Travis headed in the other direction as if he had someplace he had to be. After a few steps he turned to see where Jade was. He saw her step into a building a block down. Then he slowed his pace.
    He couldn’t believe his luck that day. He’d actually run into Miss Jade Morris, and had the possibility of going out on a date with her.
    Travis felt his cell phone vibrating in his pocket. He pulled it out, hoping it was Jade. It was a local Silvermont number. He stepped into a convenience store to get away from the noise from the street and then answered the phone. To his disappointment it wasn’t Jade. It was someone calling him to do a survey.
    He told the person on the phone that he was in the middle of something and couldn’t talk. The peppy person told him she would try him another day and Travis gladly hung up.
    While in the store he decided to buy a couple of lottery scratch-off tickets. He ended up buying five one-dollar tickets and one five-dollar ticket. As soon as he bought them he scratched them off right there in the store. He saw no need to go back to the house and scratch them off, especially if he won something.
    After scratching off all the dollar tickets, Travis started feeling like he had just wasted ten dollars. The chance of him winning big was slim to just about none. When he scratched all the numbers off of the five-dollar ticket and looked to see if he had any matches, Travis grinned like the Cheshire cat.
    On this particular scratch-off, he needed to match one of the four numbers at the top with one of the numbers at the bottom. One of his numbers matched. There was a