By the time Mr. Jacobs and his daughter arrived, Lucy and Ricky had set up a table in the living room, set 5 places, and the food was already set out. When Ricky invited them in, Lucy and Ernie were already seated. Lucy could see them, but Ernie had his back to them.
"Hello Ricky," said Mr. Jacobs. "This is my daughter, Elise."
"Hello Mr. Jacobs. Hello Elise, it's nice to meet you," Ricky said. Once they were seated, he said, "this is my wife Lucy. And this is a friend of ours from Tennessee. He's just visiting."
Elise smiled at Ernie and said, "Hi there."
"Hey! You're the girl I talked to today!" Ernie said.
"Uh huh. That was me."
"Hamburgers?" Mr. Jacobs asked.
Ricky looked embarassed, "Yes sir."
Mr. Jacobs looked at Ricky approvingly, "Good. Usually when people invite me over for dinner, they like to serve something fancy. But really, I prefer it when it's simple."
Now Ricky looked surprised, "really?"
Mr. Jacobs nodded, "Yes, really."
Ricky looked over at Lucy and chuckled.
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That night, before crawling into bed, Ricky asked Lucy, "How is it, that, with you, every time something goes wrong, it ends up going right? I mean, you invited Ernie over to dinner, that was something that seemed to go wrong. But instead, it was right. Because now he'll be spending tomorrow with Elise instead of us. And Mr. Jacobs is happy. Everything turned out right, and it almost always does with you. How do you do it?"
Lucy shrugged, "I don't know. But you wouldn't have had to spend tomorrow with Ernie, 'cause you've gotta' work."
Ricky kissed Lucy, then said, "Maybe things don't always start out okay, but they almost always end up okay. Ya' know what?"
"What?"
He kissed her again, "I love you!"
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Okay, that's it – The End.
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