Here I am

Author: Santos J. Black

Summary: Real short.... and I mean REAL short... Betty's thoughts?... I'm bad at summaries. Getty...

Time line: where we are right now…..

Notes: not beta-ed.

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Betty pushed up her glasses as she looked through Gio's deli window to where the Italian-American of her dreams was preparing a sandwich for a young couple. She could see him from where she was standing, smiling as he joked with the young couple, a smile she hadn't been able to see in his face since almost a year before.

She sighed as she tried to get the courage to walk into the room and talk to him, his words where still fresh in her mind. His heart breaking confession, the way he had tried to leave her in better spirits… the small sad smile he had given her after she had gotten him his cheese.

The thing with Mat hadn't worked as she had wanted to, sure he was amazing and caring, and most things she would have ever wanted about a guy… but at the end of the day he wasn't Gio. He couldn't make her so mad that she could probably assault him, he couldn't cook her something that was so amazing she thought she would never be able to look at pasta the same way, and he couldn't make her day by simply giving her a smile.

The young couple had finished paying from their order and was about to leave the establishment, the blond curly blue eyed man giving her a wink as he held the door open for her. With a blush, a small thank you and a last deep breath she finally walked into the deli….