He Wants To Meet

I sit down turning the phone onto speaker “So John did you read what I sent you?”

“Read it, I practically drooling over what you wrote Glenn!” A pause then “Want to tell me why the cover letter with it?”

“Ah because the cover letter told you that the following three chapters were written by Rosemarie Clancy!” The sound of paper shuffling in the background catches me by surprise. The only time John ever prints what I’ve sent him was if he was making a physical backup of my work. “John did you print it out?”

“You bet I did!” Silence on the line, probably finally reading the cover letter I sent. “So who is Rosemarie Clancy and how can I contact her?”

“Well she’s a librarian here in town and lucky for you she just happens to be sitting across from me right this moment!”

“Great tell her I would love to arrange a meeting with her in the near future!” Her eyes light up as she hears that. “I would love to publish the rest of her story if we can come to a reasonable deal!”

“Well Rosemarie do you think you can meet with John?”

“How would I get to Toronto, I don’t have a car and mom would never let me drive there in hers!”

“If you can arrange a meeting, I’ll get you to and from Toronto!” making a little joke “Even if I have to piggyback you all the way there and back!”

She was excited at the prospect of possibly selling her dream “Could we meet on a Sunday?”

“Honey if the rest of the story is like this I’ll meet you in a church if I have to!” another pause “So what do you say this Sunday at noon here in my office?”

Before clearing it with her mother “Sure I’ll be there!”

“Great if possible bring as much as you have written to date and I’ll sweeten the deal based on it!” A click comes over the line, then I shut my phone off.

“Well Miss Clancy looks like you could become the next big author if you can convince your mother to let you go to Toronto on Sunday!

She leans over the table, grabbing my head and pulling me closer to her. Kissing me on the lips “I owe everything to you Mr. Thorpe!” Letting go of my head “Do you think you can help me convince mom to let me go to Toronto on Sunday?”

Well I was the one who started the ball rolling on this to begin with and that kiss she just gave me has my lower regions ready to do everything I can to help her!