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Kirsten Sutton pulled into the parking lot of Alice’s Haven Cafe and found herself more at peace in this very parking lot than she has been anywhere else. Of course, it shouldn’t be that way. Kirsten still had so much work to get done -- especially where the new daycare was concerned. She knew that by promising Adrian the daycare she would be plunged into a month’s worth of stress.
The old Kirsten wouldn’t have promised anyone something so time consuming just for them to take a job. Which troubled her. She has no idea if she is overstepping her boundaries within her own promises to her husband Charlie. Kirsten was going out of her way to make Adrian feel comfortable.
The thirty year old blonde stepped out of her car and beeped her alarm. Her eyes, trained after years of practice, studied her surroundings. This was home to her. So she entered the Cafe and tried to brush away her worries.
“I was wondering when you’d be in,” the voice of her former flame greeted her once she was safely in proximity. Kirsten looked up at him and smiled awkwardly. “Is something wrong?” He asked, but she shook it off.
She had just been thinking about him, that was all, “It’s nothing, I finalized a couple of things with the contractors for the daycare. I’m sorry Adrian” Kirsten immediately apologizes upon realizing his initial greeting before she rambled on about the daycare, “Am I late for work?”
Adrian walked around the counter and hugged Kirsten. “You’re fine, don’t worry about it.” The smell of his cologne was enough to melt Kirsten as she tried hard not to hang on to his very soothing and comfortable words. “I went ahead and called-in one of the waiters, though, as Angela seems to have had car troubles?”
“She lives on the other side of town,” Kirsten recites, knowingly. “I really hope you didn’t call in Jimmy --” The face that Adrian makes gives away his answer before either one of them could speak and Kirsten frowns. “He is the slowest closer we have...”
“The poor kid has heart, though.” Adrian defends.
