I am a great cook, you said, casually switching between the phone and knife cutting conversations into small slivers dicing lettuce, add patties, mustard the phone smearing your make-up. balancing between your neck and necklace and long spiral ear-rings.
I am a great cook, you continued, head tilted at a rakish angle knife still dancing in mid-air.
( Itβs a technique you mastered over the years) Cutting, calling and stalling. I watched those big brown eyes join the talkative salad and burger now taking shape on the table
I shrivelled in fear when you laughed and said: I am a great cook and killer of lettuce, stray ladies and flirty men- Ha! Ha! ( oops!)
Do you want a beer to go with your burger? did you joke?