The Date

Angela and Tony were getting ready. Mona sat on the couch, flipping through a magazine, and thanking her lucky stars that she had been able to make this work out. It hadn't been easy keeping Tony and Angela from finding out that they had a date with each other, no thanks to Samantha and Jonathan.

Tony came downstairs, "Hey Mona."

"Hi Tony. Hey, you look terrific!" Mona commented.

"Thanks. Where are the kids?"

"Samantha is doing her homework and Jonathan is feeding Wilbur."

"Samantha doing her homework on a Friday night?"

"Well, that's what she said, but she's talking to Marcie."

"Yea, I figured. Well, I better go, I'm gonna be late. Bye Mone."

"Bye. Have fun Tony!"

"I'll try," he said before walking out the door.

Mona smiled to herself. She had a feeling that he was going to have a very good time.

Angela came into the living room a few moments later. "You look wonderful, Angela."

"Thank you, Mother," she smiled.

"I can't believe you are seriously going to do this. You, Angela!"

"Oh come on Mother, don't be so uptight! Besides it could be fun!"

"I thought I was supposed to be saying those things to you," Mona teased.

"Me too. Anyhow, I have to go."

"Bye Angela. Have a nice time."

"Bye. Oh, are you staying with the kids? Where's Tony?"

"He has a date," Mona said simply.

"Oh." Angela's face fell. "Well, goodnight Mother."

"Goodnight dear."

Angela walked out the door and Mona yawned and leaned back into the couch.

Angela came into the charming, Italian restaurant, a maitre'd came up to her immediately. "Good evening, madam. May I help you?"

"Yes. I'm meeting someone here, John Smith."

The man searched a couple pages of the reservation book he was holding. "No, I don't see it. It's under another name, perhaps?"

"Oh. Maybe it's under Mona Robinson."

He glanced down again. "Oh yes, here it is. Right this way. The gentleman has already arrived." He led her to a table in the back. "Here you are," he said, moving out of the way.

Tony looked up and his eyes met with Angela's, "Angela?!" He said in surprise.

"Tony?!"

She turned to the maitre'd, "Are you sure this is right?"

"You did ask for the reservation under the name, Mona Robinson, yes?"

"Well, yes, but I-"

"Hey-oh, wait a minute Angela. You say that Mona sent you here?" Tony interrupted.

"That's right, to go on a date with one of her professors."

"And she sent me on a date with one of her friends out at your agency."

"Who?"

"Mary Beth Jones."

"There is no Mary Beth Jones that works at the agency."

"That's what I thought. Well, why don't ya have a seat, we might as well eat while we're here, Mona's payin'," Tony grinned.

Angela sat down and the maitre'd took their orders. After he walked off, Angela said, "Tony we don't have to stay if you don't want to."

"Huh? Why wouldn't I want to? Hey Angela, what's wrong with having dinner with your best friend, who just happens to be your employer? And it's been almost three years, it's about time we had a real date," He gave her a charming smile.

"You're right. But, I still think we have to get Mother back."

"What did ya have in mind boss?"

"We'll get home late and when we do, we go on and on about our dates. The dates that she told us we had."

"Oh, I see. So, I'll act like I been out with Mary Beth and you with, uh, who?"

"John Smith."

"John Smith?" Tony crinkled up his nose.

"Yea."

"Anyways, that's a good plan Angela, that's what we'll do. Hey you want some wine?"

After dinner, Tony said, "Hey Angela, the fall carnival is in town, wanna go?"

"Sure," Angela said.

"It closes in an hour, so we better get goin'," Tony said excitedly.

Angela had to laugh at how excited he was, but his enthusiasm was contagious. "Let's move it, let's hit it, let's do it!" Angela borrowed one of Tony's most famous sayings.

Tony smiled and grabbed her hand, "Come on."

Soon they were sitting on the Ferris wheel, staring up at the night sky. Tony was saying something about the constellations, but Angela was mesmerized by Tony's deep brown eyes.

Tony was quiet for a minute then he looked at Angela and said kind of shyly, "Hey, uh, Angela, I don't know if I told ya, but you, uh, you look really beautiful tonight."

Angela blushed, "Why, thank you, Tony."

"Don't mention it." He grinned, and then looked away.

The ride ended too soon and the carnival closed. Tony and Angela went home, at the door Angela turned to him, "Tony, I had a really good time tonight."

"Yea, me too. We really should thank Mona," he smiled.

Then they replied in unison, "Nah." They laughed.

"Hey Angela, I know that you're just my boss and everything, but, um, maybe we can do this again sometime?" He asked hopefully.

"I'd like that Tony."

Then Tony gave her a long, tender kiss. "We should go inside," Angela whispered.

"Yea. But we can't go in at the same time. You go ahead I'll come in after a few minutes."

Angela smiled before going inside and closing the door behind her.