20 In 5 -- Vol. II -- Grapes And Strawberries

Not an Eve;
definitely not an Eve.

He popped another grape into his mouth and peered at the strawberries in their vivid green baskets.


 Darcy walked up to the man and spoke in a low voice. "Sir, it isn't allowed to eat the merchandise without paying for it."


The man turned and looked Darcy up and down, frankly, openly, but not in any way as an intrusion, she felt, more like he was...sizing her up for something. He had several grapes in his left hand and looked at them like he'd looked at her. "I got these from the bins over there." He pointed with his lips and Darcy thought he was throwing them a kiss. She almost giggled. "They were all loose so I gathered them up. I just didn't feel right throwing them away." He offered her one and she declined.
"I'm Ronald."


Darcy nodded, then added in a low voice "But we still can't eat the store's merchandise this way."


Roland smiled and chuckled. "So the store policy is to take perfectly good food," he popped a grape in his mouth in distracted fashion, "And just throw it away? Does that seem right to you, Miss...?" His dark blue eyes were both sad and curious.


"Darcy. Darcy Simmons." She dimpled, then remembered her task. "It's store policy, sir, and we do it to protect the customers from what could be unclean items."


Ronald startled her by peering closely at the grape, as if applying X-ray vision to it. "Looks clean to me. Who wrote that silly policy?" He squared his shoulders and stood at mock attention.


Darcy took a short breath. He certainly was tall and strong-looking... "I'm not sure. Maybe the company president?" Darcy felt Roland's eyes come back to her and she felt flustered.


Popping the last few grapes into his mouth at one time, Roland chewed quickly and swallowed. "I have it on good authority that the man is a loopy doodyhead."



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