The wedding list
Curiosity got the better of her.
He had left his laptop unattended, open on the kitchen counter with his drafted guest list on the screen - what was she supposed to do?
Her eyes drifted down the list of names, all of which she had expected to see. His family - although limited - had topped the list, followed by a note to confirm that Kate's list covered their precinct family.
She smiled at that thought.
Continuing down the list she saw the name she thinks she was subconsciously searching for: Gina Cowell. She had prepared herself for this. He and Gina had a wonderful working relationship (now that they had gotten past any lingering maybe we didn't try hard enough thoughts) and if he was planning on inviting the rest of his writing cortège, why shouldn't he invite Gina too?
With the confirmation that she needed, she was ready to stop her snooping expedition but as she turned away her eye caught on a familiar name.
She narrowed her eyes and focussed about mid-way down Castle's list where - yes, she had seen that right! - he had listed Will Sorensen as a 'must have' guest.
The name directly below was unexpected, too.
Joshua Davidson.
Her jaw dropped. He wasn't serious, was he?
She continued to read name after name: Tom Demming, Alex Conrad, Eric Vaughn…
"What are you doing?"
Her eyes snapped to the man standing at the bottom of the staircase.
"Colin Hunt? Are you for real, Castle?"
All she got in response was a wicked smirk and a shrug.
"How the hell did you even know about Thatcher Williams?"
"Oh, you mean your high school beau that you moved in with right after graduation? Your dad surrendered that little tidbit when we went to that baseball game."
She shook her head. "I should have known that you offering to take my dad to a baseball game could only mean one thing," she said while trying to hide her smile. "May I as why you want to invite my high school boyfriend to our wedding? Why you want to invite any of these people?"
"Why does the champion grab his trophy and wave it around in the air for all to see?"
She folded her arms across her torso and gave him a moment to reconsider what he had just said.
"Okay, that didn't sound right," he said as he began to backpedal.
"Ya think?"
"I'm just saying, out of all these perfectly acceptable men that you could have ended up with, you picked me."
"And?"
"And I wanna rub it in their faces a lil bit." He accentuated the sentiment by holding up his hand, his thumb and forefinger a mere inch apart.
She rolled her eyes and bit her lip, trying to hide the smirk. "Not gonna happen, Castle."