His own drink now sat forgotten as he listened to Jack, eyebrow quirking up at the man’s words. He couldn’t stop the chuckle that rose up from his stomach and spilled passed his lips as he tapped the tabletop once. “You sly man! You stole her from her crush hmm? Good work.”
Jack should have been able to see the increasing interest in the story as it was getting better with every word.
Shy though he was, Jack did know how to read people. He could tell how interested Juniper was, even if he couldn’t quite understand why – as wonderful as the experience had been for him, he hadn’t thought it would be that interesting to other people. “I w-wouldn’t say that. But it’s nice to think,” he said, with a nervous little chuckle. “Anyway, I did eventually tell her how I felt, and we’ve been together ever since.”
He glanced off to the side. “I proposed to her on Valentine’s Day.”
Whoa commitment to boot; Juniper’s eyes widening. That was a level of expertise he had knowledge in though his experience hadn’t been as pleasant. The revelation caused a smidgen of unease in the actor but he tried playing it off with a smile. “Well congratulations, Jack. I’m sure with how much you love her you two will be very happy?”
The fond way he spoke of his fiancee just told him the two of them were going to do all right. Jack had nothing to gain by marrying this woman since she didn’t sound famous by any means and Jack didn’t seem the type.
“I really think we will be,” Jack said, still smiling. “It hasn’t always been easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is.” He remembered a line from a movie he’d seen once, and grinned at how perfectly he felt it described Katelynn.
“She makes my life an adventure.”
He took another long sip of his mojito, and turned to Juniper as an idea came to him. “Would you like to meet her sometime? She’s much better company than me,” he joked. “And … well, she sort of likes to meet all the people who are, erm … like us.” He didn’t want to come right out and say “she studies Megaminds” – that sounded too clinical, and besides, he was sure Katelynn would like to meet Juniper even if he were a normal human.
Jack Maple 