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there with his curly hair
wild and unruly. She was smiling as she walked into the restaurant
and walked up to his table; he looked up and saw her, jumping up to
pull out her chair for her to sit down.
    After he sat back down in his own chair he
smiled at her, “I was almost convinced that you wouldn’t show up, I
was afraid I had scared you off yesterday.”
    Abby giggled in a way she never had before,
“Well, I didn’t have anything better to do, so I figured what the
hey.” She told him, hoping he didn’t take it the wrong way.
    He laughed a deep hearty laugh that made her
smile, “Well, I’m glad you decided to throw caution to the wind and
go out with me. There is just something about you, as soon as you
walked in that door, I couldn’t take my eyes off of you, and I just
knew I had to meet you.” He told her as he looked deep into her
eyes, making her stomach jump and flutter again.
    After that their food came and they both
stopped talking and ate, though never once taking their eyes off of
each other. When they finished their food she tried to get to know
more about him, but just as he was starting to tell her the answers
to her questions, her cell phone beeped, signaling that it was time
to go back to work. Tom looked disappointed as she gathered up her
purse and started to head out the door, but then he grabbed her
hand to stop her, and as soon as her skin touched his, it felt as
though she had touched metal after dragging her feet on the carpet,
but instead of going right away, it never stopped.
    Tom looked at her with his eyes wide before
finally pulling his hand away. “Wow that was weird. Has that ever
happened to you before?” he asked her.
    She shook her head and looked down at her
hand, it looked the same as it did before, but there was something
inside of her that just felt different. She looked back up at Tom
and mumbled out, “I have to go” before turning to run out the
door.

Chapter 5
    She walked back into Celtic Magic just as
Jasmine was ringing up a new customer. She hurried and put her
purse into her cubby hole in the back, then returned to the front
to get behind the register.
    Jasmine looked at her oddly then finally
asked, “What’s the matter? You look weird.”
    Abby shook her head and replied, “Nothing,
I’m fine.”
    Jasmine shrugged her
shoulders and walked away to help a customer who had just come in.
Just then her cell phone beeped and she looked down at it and saw
that it was from Tom. Hey, want to do
something this weekend? Abby looked up and
saw that Jasmine was still talking with the customer and answered
back.
    Sure, pick me up at my
place on Saturday at around 8? She hit the
send button then stuck the phone back into her pocket as the
customer came up to the counter with a load of items. Jasmine was
really a good sales person; people always bought lots of things
when she was through talking with them. The phone beeped in her
pocket while ringing up the customer, but she knew she had to wait
until the customer was gone to check the message.
    After finishing up her
sale and watching the customer walk out of the door, she looked
around for Jasmine, but she wasn’t in the front room, so she
figured she was in the back. She pulled the phone out of her pocket
and opened the message. A.M. or P.M. and I
don’t know where you live, but sounds good . She giggled as she tapped her reply. P.M. silly, I don’t
leave the house that early. Call me on
Saturday and I’ll tell you how to get to my apartment.
    “ Was that Tom?” Jasmine
asked, suddenly standing right next to her.
    She jumped and gave a yelp, “Sorry, you
scared the crap out of me Jasmine, but yes, that was Tom. He wants
to go out again this weekend.”
    Jasmine smiled, “Well that is good news, the
first date must have gone well then.”
    Abby nodded, “Yes, it did.” Jasmine patted
her on the shoulder and went about her day, and Abby never once
stopped smiling.
    ***
    The next Saturday came around fairly fast