CHANCES (Andrew Lincon Romance)

Chapter 4

The panel filled up quickly. In fact there wasn't a single empty seat. This was my first time attending a comic con and to say I was taken aback would be putting it mildly. I never would have been to one if Zac/Andrew hadn't asked me to come.

It had been an excruciating day at work fallowed by a flat tire only to get home to find out we had no power. I had just lit some candles and crawled into a hot bubble bath when my phone rang with my favourite caller.

Sinking down into my claw foot tub, bubbles nearly to my chin. I hit answer and speaker "Hey stranger"

"Hey you. How's your Friday?" he asked

"I'm so glad it's over. It was one of those days where if it could go wrong it did." Stretching my toes to the end of the tub I could feel the stress of the day slowly washing away. "How was yours?"

"Good, I met some friends for lunch and ran some errands. It was pretty laid back. Why what happened with yours?"

I began to tell him all about my bosses melt down over the phone. "I don't know she just makes me feel like I should consider myself lucky I have the job. I know I'm good at my job. Sales have gone up since I was hired. Still it's like I fall just short of her expectations no matter how hard I try."

"I know what you mean. In part anyways." His voice was always so comforting.

"You are the owner of your company. How could someone make you feel that you are lucky to have your job?"

"I wonder sometimes if I'm making the right choices. If I should have done something slightly different. There's always someone snapping at my heals thinking they could do my job better. Judging everything I do. I'm still the one in the drivers seat. I guess that's what makes me feel lucky to have the job."

"I guess there's shit with every job. So got any big plans for the weekend?" I inquired.

"I think I'm going to head out to the country to mom and dads. My brother and some of the other family are going. Just get out of the city for the weekend."

I missed having a close family. Since my mom and dad had passed and I was an only child it was just me and the girls now. Mikes family was scattered and barley talked when he was alive. Of course there was the talk of changing ways and how close we would all be just after the funeral. What a joke it had been close to a year since we herd from any of them. No our family had become a group of close friends. Still I missed the family get together and suppers. Especially during the holidays.

"Sounds like fun." I mused quietly

"Where are you? You sound like your in a tunnel?"

"I'm relaxing and having a bubble bath" I could almost swear I herd him suck in a breath.

He cleared his throat "So um.....what are your plans for the weekend?"

My best friend had for the past two weeks been harping for me to go on this double date with her. Tammy was just positive this guy she worked with was the man of my dreams. When I tried to get out of it she bluntly reminded me that I needed to live in the here and now. That Zac/Andrew lived in another country and the odds of me ever meeting him was slim to none. That after all this time I still wasn't sure how he even felt about me. Maybe he only saw me as a friend. Tammy was usually brutally honest and I loved her for it. Eventually I agreed to go just to make her happy.

I wondered for a second if I should tell him about my date. I know it would bother me if he said he was going on one. Then again I was lonely and probably reading much more into our relationship than there really was.

"I'm actually going on a date tomorrow if you can believe that."

He asked me who with and where without any emotion or hesitation. I guess that answers my question. I had allowed my feelings to blur past the lines of friendship while his clearly remained in friendship boundaries. Not long after my phone began to beep signalling another incoming call. He said he would call back and wished me good luck on my date. I was almost pissed off at his reaction.