“A woman helped you change?” This intrigued the nerd side of him, the shoujo manga lover, the romantic and even the actor side of him in case the story was interesting and not cheesy like some romance novel.
Still all in all Jack was an interesting fellow; shy, well mannered, polite, perhaps even humbling from what he could gather. And his story so far did seem like an interesting plot for a movie.
A faint lavender blush rose in Jack’s cheeks. “S-sort of.” He twirled the ice in his drink idly as he thought back to those early days. “Katelynn’s a photographer.” She’d held several other jobs too, but that was how he best liked to think of her – that artistic side that he loved. “I f-found her blog online. And th-then one day we happened to meet out in the park. I told her I was a fan of her work, and,” his smile grew, “we hit it off. We were just friends at first, though. She had a crush on someone else, and I was so shy, it took me so long to admit I liked her.”
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."
Jack Maple 