Friday Romance: Dating In The Teleportation Age (Romance/Sci-Fi) (Part 4 of 5)
Faber looked up, his head cocked to the side and his eyes locked on the bag of treats.
Time at work seemed to move faster, or perhaps James was no longer paying attention. He had something to look forward to for the first time in months, maybe years. He couldn’t remember how many hours his boss had docked from his day after being almost four minutes late, but he didn’t care.
“Jimmy! We’re going to hit up the bars again tonight. You in?”
“I’ve got plans.”
“Just come along for one drink.”
James stared at the time in the corner of his screen.
“Jimmy? What do you say, man?”
Five. James looked over to Dave and shrugged. He teleported to outside the grocery store and grabbed a cart. After finding half of the items on his list and thanking the cashier, he picked his bags up from the cart and appeared in his kitchen.
His dog came running over and James pulled out a new bag of treats.
“I’ll give you two tonight if you promise to be good. I have to go again; I kind of met someone last night. Well, not kind of, I did meet someone. Maybe you’ll meet her someday.”
Faber looked up, his head cocked to the side and his eyes locked on the bag of treats.
“Here.”
When eight-thirty rolled around James appeared at the cliff-side, with a blanket under his arm and a small cooler in his hand. He found the spot from the night before, but didn’t see Elissa. He set up the blanket and opened the cooler, where he submerged his hand into the ice and pulled out a can of soda.
“What’s all this?”
James turned to see Elissa walking towards him.
“Figured I’d make things a little nicer,” said James. “Hope you don’t mind.”
“I like it. And,” her eyes grew wide, “is that Grapefruit Blast? I didn’t think anyone else in the world liked that stuff. I always buy more than I need just to make sure they stay in business.”
James handed her a can. “Well now you can cross a case or two off your list because I buy this stuff every week.”
As the sun began to sink, James tilted his head onto Elissa’s as she rested on his shoulder.
“My day wasn’t so bad today,” she said, followed by a deep yawn. “It went by so fast. All I could think about was this sunset.”
“Just the sunset?”
She removed her head from his shoulder and looked over to him. A grin curled up her cheeks.
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