The Good Life

Chapter 3

Mastering the side glance while working with Marla, Bruno had noticed Marla had several left over stickers on her skirt after the completion of her set-up.

Before she could notice, he grabbed one of the buyer sheets – added the numbers that were left on her skirt and wrote:

455: Dinner and a movie

39: A dozen roses

763: A USC/UCLA baseball game

On the back he wrote his phone number. He didn’t leave a name. He knew she would know who it was.

He folded up the sheet and put it in his pocket.

“Thank you for the help. I don’t think I could have finished this before the doors opened without help.

“You’re welcome.” He smiled at her- dropping the buyer sheet in the box while her back was turned.

 

Marla moved the buyer box into its position.

“What the heck?” she said . “This should be empty.

She grabbed the key that she held in her hand and opened it.

A single sheet dropped out of the box. The folded sheet fell out and blew towards the open door where Bruno’s trumpet player was standing.

“Oh..here…” he picked it up for her.

“Thanks!”

She stood by the door where it wasn’t nearly as hot and stuffy and read the buyer sheet. She glanced down at her skirt where she noticed several numbers on her skirt. She smiled to herself and wondered if he did this often.

Suddenly her phone vibrated and snapped her out of her random bliss. She grabbed her blackberry to see who was calling her…it was Angie’s boss Renee.

“Marla! Did you finish everything? I want to stop by and see! I’m not going to make it to the event, but I want to come and see! And is Jaime there? I want to thank her! And her brother! Is he as cute as he is on TV? Oh lord…I want to bring the kids…but I think that’s too much!”

“Yes I finished everything..yes they’re both here and actually there are kids all over the place so I don’t think it would be that big of a deal if you brought them.”

“But you didn’t answer my real question! Is he cute! Did you find Mr. Perfect?”

“Umm…really Renee?”

“Yes…really!”

“Maybe.”