Or, for those of us who are also fans of the movie, The Princess Bride, ‘Twu Wuv’.
I realize the following question is going to totally date me, but remember when a guy making a mixed tape for a girl was considered a romantic gesture? Fortunately, our darling Ben is old school. He loves Tori, heart and soul, and isn’t shy about how he shows it!
Guardians of the Chosen, Chapter 11 “…Hoping he had enough time before she woke up, he snuck her iPod off the dresser, crept into the living room and plugged the device into a cable attached to his laptop. Working quickly, he created a new playlist on her directory and transferred several carefully selected songs over to the list.
The timing couldn’t have worked out better as he had just enough time to eject the device, place it on the table in front of him and grab a section of the newspaper, as he heard her open the door to her bedroom.
He looked up from the newspaper, casually, and smiled as she strode into the living room wearing a jogging suit and sneakers. “Perfect!” he chuckled, inwardly. “Good morning! Where are you off to looking so sporty and beautiful?”
“Good morning!” she replied, smiling back while pulling her long auburn hair up into a high pony-tail and securing it with an elastic band. “Thank goodness the rain has finally stopped! Have you seen the sky today? It’s absolutely beautiful! I thought I would go for a walk. Hey, have you seen my iPod? I can’t seem to find it…oh, there it is – never mind! Geez! I’m starting to leave my stuff everywhere, aren’t I?”
She walked over to the coffee table, next to where Ben was sitting, picked the device up and clipped it onto her waistband. While she un-tangled the headphone wires from each other she added, “Do you want to come with me?”
Ben grinned secretively, shook his head and said, “Thanks, you go ahead. When I’m done with the paper, I have some email I need to catch up on. Go, have fun!”
Tori shrugged and replied, “Your loss! See you later!”
“Later,” he agreed, chuckling out loud as the door closed behind her.
Tori paused on the landing long enough to stretch out her calves and hamstrings against the stair railing, then descended to the ground and headed out of the parking lot in the direction of a farm road a few blocks away.
The familiar sounds of birds chirping in the sky above and her shoes crunching the loose gravel against the pavement, made her quicken her pace as she anticipated the road ahead.
While she walked, she placed the ear-buds from her headphones into her ears and unclipped her iPod from her waistband, powering up the device. Scrolling through her playlists, she looked for the usual list of songs and was surprised to see a new playlist she hadn’t seen before named ‘My Angel.’ Curious, and immediately suspicious of Ben and his typical prankish behavior, she selected the playlist and waited for the first song to play…”
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