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- Short Story -
It's All In the Past, Isn't It?
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- Gabrielle walked into Crossroads,
“Hi Max.” She fell into the chair and put her face
in her hands.
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- “What’s wrong now?”
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- “Nothing, Bo is just
spending time with his son.” She took the drink he offered
her.
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- “And?”
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- “And what?” Taking
a sip she looks up at him.
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- “Gabrielle Bo loves
you, he offered to take the day off for you just the other day,”
he shook his head, “you are the fool that turned him down.”
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- She shot her head up, “Well,
he didn’t push very hard to make me cancel my plans with
you.”
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- Max just shook his head with
a smile on his face, “Bo is a simple guy, and he trusts
you. You might want to try it.” He went to wait on someone
else.
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- “It’s not Bo I
don’t trust.” She emptied her glass and slid it over
for Max to refill.
- ~ ~ ~
- Bo stood awkwardly on the
front porch of her house, this was the first time he was going
to see Matthew since he said he wanted to be his dad, he really
wanted to tell him the truth, but both he and Nora decided that
the whole paternity test/DNA conversation should wait until he
was older. He knocked on the door.
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- “He’s here!”
Matthew shouted as he ran down the stairs to get the door. He
opened it, “Hi B..” a big smile crept across his face,
“dad!”
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- “Hey champ!” Bo
leaned down to hug him as he smiled. He looked up Nora was across
the room, wiping a tear from her eye.
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- “Allergies, you know.”
Bo just nodded as he and Matthew walked back into the room.
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- “So, where do you want
to go for dinner?”
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- Matthew looked at his mom,
“Where do you want to go?”
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- She pointed at herself. “Me?”
She shook her head, “I’m not going Matthew, this is
dinner for you and B..” she grinned, “your dad.”
Bo had to admit he really liked the sound of that.
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- Matthew looked at Bo, “If
she doesn’t go with us…”
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- Bo finished, “she won’t
eat!”
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- “Exactly!” Matthew
and Bo just laughed as Nora sneered at them.
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- “Hey, no ganging up
on me.”
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- “Come on Nora, why don’t
you go with us? Max reopened Crossroads, we can go check it out,
what do you say?”
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- “Bo, I really need to
get some work done,” she pointed to a stack of papers on
the table in front of her desk.
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- He scratched his chin, “Yeah
that was your reason for not joining Hank and I for lunch today
too, you on a diet?” He looked down at her as if to see
if she needed to.
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- “NO!” She cut her
eyes at him, “Are you trying to imply that I need to be.”
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- Matthew was smiling at the
conversation between his parents, they were both smiling despite
themselves, ‘Maybe Starr was right if I can just get them
to spend time together.’
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- “Please mom, come eat
with us.”
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- “Fine,” she looked
at Bo, “I’m in the mood for a greasy burger and a beer
anyway,” as they got to the door she looked back at him,
“and by the way Buchanan, your buying.”
He laughed as he shook his head and closed the door behind him.
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- Matthew ran to the jeep and
jumped in the back seat. Nora looked at him. “Don’t
you want shotgun?” She really didn’t want to sit next
to Bo.
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- “Nah, you can.”
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- Bo looked at her, “You
can always sit in back with him, and pretend I’m your driver,”
he fake bowed, “at your service maam.”
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- “That’s quite all
right, thank you,” she opened the door, “you would
probably expect a tip.”
~ ~ ~
“Hello? Hi Al. You need to borrow my car? Sure, no problem,
I’ll come get you and you can bring me back to Crossroads.
What? No, I am visiting your father. No, he’s with Matthew.
No, nothings wrong, Bo and I are perfectly fine, I’ll be
there in a bit.” She hangs up the phone as Max comes over.
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- “Was that Al?”
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- “Yes, he needs to borrow
my car, I am going to take mine to him and have him drop me back
here, you can take me home can’t you?”
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- “You want me to take
you to bed too!” He laughed at her.
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- “NO!”
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- “Well, you said you
wanted to make him jealous.”
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- She slid off the chair, “Shut
up Max.”
- ~ ~ ~
“I want to pick a table.” Matthew ran to a table by
the dance floor. Remembering the night of his ‘prom,’
“Can I have some quarters?” Nora went to dig in her
purse.
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- “I got it.” Bo
pulled out a handful of change and picked out the quarters to
give to Matthew, he handed them to him and Matthew headed for
the jukebox.
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- Bo held the seat out for
Nora to sit down, “You want a beer?”
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- “Please.” She set
her purse on the chair next to her and waited for Matthew to
return.
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- “Hey Commissioner.”
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- “Hi Christian, how you
doing?”
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- “Fine sir, what can
I get you?”
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- “Two drafts and a root
beer.”
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- “I’ll have Natalie
bring them over to your table.”
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- “Thanks.”
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- The music started to play
as Bo made his way back to the table, “Jump, Jive and Wail”
was surrounding them.
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- “Hey isn’t this
that song you danced to that night at Rodi’s?”
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- Bo nodded, “Yeah I think
it is.” He held out his hand, “You want to try it again?”
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- “I think I’ll pass.
Thanks.”
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- “C’mon mom,”
Matthew gave her puppy dog eyes.
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- “Yeah, c’mon mom,”
Bo added, with the same pleading look.
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- “You two are pathetic,”
she said as she stood, but she noticed her heart was beating
a little bit faster at the fact that Bo had called her mom, it
just seemed so right, like this is how it should have been, she
shook the thoughts from her mind as they prepared to Jitterbug.
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- Natalie brought the drinks
over to the table, and Matthew handed her the remaining quarters
as he whispered in her ear. Then he took a sip of his rootbeer
and smiled as he watched his parents dance.
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- Both of them out of breath,
they sat laughing and took a sip of their beers. “That was
fun, Re..” he cleared his throat, “Nora, thanks.”
Her heart raced, she felt the flush in her face and it was no
longer just from the dancing.
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- Matthew looked at Bo, “Dad,
what were you going to say?”
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- Nora looked at Bo as she
did his eyes caught hers, and he caught the light playing with
the highlights in her hair. “Umm, what did you say Matthew?”
He loosened his tie, it suddenly felt very warm in here.
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- “What were you going
to say?”
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- “Nothing.”
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- Natalie came over to take
there order, Bo looked at Nora who just nodded, “Three burgers
and fries please.” Natalie went and placed the order and
went to talk to Christian. She told him about Matthew’s
request. He gave her a few choices.
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- “That’s mine and
mom’s favorite.”
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- “I know.”
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- “You do?”
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- “Matthew, a..”
he was interrupted when My Girl started to play on the jukebox,
he looked over at Nora, she went to stand as she picked up her
purse.
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- “If you’ll excuse
me,” she headed towards the restroom, once inside she went
to the sink and put cold water on her face. She didn’t know
what was going on out there, but there was no way she could be
near Bo while that song played. Natalie walked in behind her.
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- “Hi Nora” seeing
what she was doing, “you okay?”
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- “Huh,” she looked
back at the faucet, “oh yeah I’m fine, just warm.”
She got a towel to dry off her face. “I better get back.”
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- Natalie shook her head, “Well
Matthew your mom definitely has it bad for your dad.” She
washed her hands and headed back out.
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- When she got back to the
table Bo was showing Matthew how to play pool, she just sat back
and watched. As Bo missed shot after shot, Matthew just howled,
Christian walked over to Bo, whispering in his ear, and then
he nodded at Natalie. She came over and took over for Bo. He
went to sit at the table.
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- “Quite the pool shark
huh?” She smiled at him.
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- “I prefer darts.”
He took a gulp of beer.
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- She looked around, “Of
course you do, there aren’t any here to play!”
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- “Is that a challenge?”
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- “Did it sound like a
challenge?” She leaned back in her chair.
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- “You haven’t changed
a bit, you are still overly competitive.” He crossed his
arms over his chest.
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- “What? I’m overly
competitive. You are the one sitting there sulking because his
niece is a better pool player.”
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- He shot her a look.
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- “I am not sulking,”
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- She just raised her eyebrows,
“What do you..” When a Man Loves a Woman started playing,
“umm , do you, ummm” she shook her head trying to get
the song out of her head. He couldn’t take his eyes off
her, she refused to look at him.
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- He cleared his throat, “Is
it hot in here or is it just me?” Before she could answer,
“I need to use the restroom.”
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- He walked over to the sink
and splashed cold water on his face, “It’s just memories,
old feelings Buchanan, just shake it off, Nora is your past,
Gabrielle is your future,” he looked in the mirror, “isn’t
she?”
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- Christian walked in, “Isn’t
she what?”
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- Bo turned around at Christian’s
voice, “Huh?”
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- “You said isn’t
she, isn’t she what?”
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- He grabbed a towel and started
wiping his hands, “Have you and Natalie set a date yet?”
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- The paper was ripping he
was wiping so hard, Christian found it hard to stifle his laughter.
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- “Yes, we have, the second
Saturday in November, you and Nora are invited. You will be there
right?”
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- “Of course we will,”
then he realized what Christian said, “I mean Nora and I
will both be there, but I won’t be with her, we will be
by ourselves, or well, I will be with umm, with..’
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- Christian just stared at
him, waiting for him to answer, Matthew came running into the
bathroom, “Come on dad, dinner is on the table.”
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- “On my way son.”
He followed Matthew out the door.
- Christian stood shaking his
head, “Oh yeah, Bo still has a thing for Nora.” He
smiled as he thought about what to play next. “I know just
what will do it.” He went to wash his hands.
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- Bo sat down, “This looks
delicious.” He licked his lips.
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- “It is,” Nora said
after swallowing her first bite. “Might be better than Rodi’s.”
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- “Impossible,” Bo
just looked at her as he took a large bite of his burger.
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- She waited for him to finish,
“Well?”
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- “It might be close,
but I would have to have a Rodi’s burger to compare it too.”
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- “You are too much.”
- ~ ~ ~
“Send me some loving.”
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- “Cris, are you sure?”
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- “Positive, it’s
what they danced down the aisle to at their wedding.”
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- “Really?” She looked
over at them.
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- “Yeah, it was quite
the event from what Jess told me.
- They almost left and then
Max presented Little Richard and they strolled down the aisle
to Send Me Some Lovin.”
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- “I hope you]re right.”
She headed for the jukebox.
- ~ ~ ~
He wiped his face with his napkin as he swallowed the last bite.
“Well, what did you think champ?”
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- “Delicious,” he
mumbled with his mouth full.
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- “Matthew Rappa,”
she looked at Bo, “Hanen!” They hadn’t talked
about names, but somehow it just didn’t seem right for Matthew
to be a Rappaport, she and Bo still had things to discuss, Gabrielle
wasn’t going to like that one bit. She smiled as she thought,
‘she woudn’t like this one bit either.’ She shook
her head as she chuckled to herself.
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- “Care to share the joke
with us?”
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- “Huh?” she looked
up, “oh it was nothing.”
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- He raised his eyebrows, “Whatever.”
He looked at his watch. “It’s getting kind of late,
we should probably get Matthew home.”
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- Matthew who had stopped eating
a few minutes earlier started eating again like he was famished,
“I’m still eating,” he mumbled again with his
mouth full, he never noticed his mother’s stern look as
he was looking for Natalie. She was pushing the buttons on the
Jukebox.
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- Send Me Some Loving started
to play, they turned to look at each other at the same time,
neither could break the eye contact that they had no intention
of creating, Bo started tapping his foot, ‘Oh hell with
it!’
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- He held out his hand, “Would
you like to dance?” She wanted to say no, everything in
her told her to say no, scream no, she just slightly nodded as
she put her hand in Bo’s. They started strolling across
the dance floor, Matthew watched in amazement, before long they
were laughing as they fell into step with each other, knowing
the next move of their partner.
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- Gabrielle walked in the door
as they were dancing, she couldn’t take her eyes off the
couple on the dance floor, as the song ended Bo spun Nora into
him and dipped her back, their lips were only an inch apart,
Matthew was staring willing his father, to kiss her, just as
it looked like he might, “Max Darling I’m back.”
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- Bo almost dropped Nora when
he heard her voice. He helped her stand up and then went to talk
to Gabrielle, but when he looked over, she was leaning in close
to Max giggling, the way lovers do, Max just smiled at whatever
she was saying, he knew Max knew he was there, so what was going
on between these two anyway?
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- “Bo, are you okay?”
Nora asked him, he had just stopped in the middle of the dance
floor, she looked over to where he was staring.
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- “Oh. You know it’s
time for Matthew to go to bed, I can just call a cab to take
us home.”
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- “No!” He turned
to look at her.
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- Startled and a little upset
by his tone, “Excuse me?”
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- “I’m sorry I didn’t
mean to yell, but I will take you home, I brought you to dinner.”
She pointed to Gabrielle, he just shook his head, “looks
like she’s busy to me.”
He walked over to the table, “Come on champ, let’s
go.”
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- Matthew jumped off the chair
and headed for the door, he grabbed both his parent’s hands,
he didn’t want Bo to go to Gabrielle, Bo’s other hand
was in his pocket, he felt the ring box. He stopped at the door
and removed his hand from Matthew’s
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- “Dad, what...”
Nora put her hand over his mouth, he looked up at her and she
just glared at him, all of a sudden she realized tonight had
been a setup and they were going to have a long talk with their
little boy when they got home.
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- Bo got over to where Max
and Gabrielle were, he cleared his throat, Gabrielle turned,
acting flustered, “Hi Darling, I didn’t know you were
here.”
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