Meeting the Davies

“Yes. Bye.” Ruth turned to Chris who was staring at her intently. “What?”

It was a Monday morning and Christine who still had time on her hands watched as Ruth talked on the phone to Alex. She seemed to like him and that pleased Christine a lot.

“I was hoping you’d leave the house today. No shopping or dates today?” Christine asked, taunting her friend.

“Actually, today’s the day I get to meet Peter Pencraft.” Ruth smiled, jumping off the bed to the dressing table to get a curler for her hair.

“Alex’s dad?” Christine asked

“Yes,” Ruth replied humming her favorite song.

“That’s nice. I was hoping you’d go out so–“

“So you can invite a guy, isn’t it?” Ruth mocked

“Aha, as if I ever will,”

“You need to get a guy though. If you continue this way, you’ll end up an old unmarried woman with cats.”

“That doesn’t sound so bad.”

Ruth turned to Christine in fake horror. “Do not say that girl, that’s a tough life to live.”

“Thank you for your concern, I’m off to work,” Christine said and picked u