“Fine. Yeah. You should go to work,” she said. But she looked away when she said it, and Wojo knew what that meant.
“C’mon, don’t be mad, I love you,” Wojo said. “I want to, yu’know…” He winced. He wished he ain’t-a done start that sentence, cuz he dunno where he was going with it.
She nodded like she accepted that as good enough, but she also nodded like that wasn’t good enough. Women don’t never say what they mean. “Love you too, baby,” she said, and she said it like she meant it but also like she meant something else too.
With a horsey sigh, Wojo wrinkled his nose and kissed her, and she stayed stiff like she don’t wanna kiss. He grabbed his toolbox, hurried out to his truck and went to work. He don’t got time to figger out what she weren’t saying. Why wasn’t it good enough that he said he loves her?
Why does she gotta only say something about it when Wojo was late for work? If she said it last night, they coulda talked about it all night. Not that Wojo wanna talk about anything all night. She would too, Pam got thoughts on every angle of stuff. She’d prolly have all kinda things to say about marriage proposals and commitment and engagements, for sure. Wojo don’t got that much to say about anything. Forget about it!
He kept running through last night in his mind pondering if he done something to make her think it was proposal night. Maybe he shoulda proposed. He just don’t know if that’s the right thing to do, if Pam was the woman for him. Her family don’t like him, for one thing. Or at least not her mom, which is who matters. Her brother Angus was okay about him, but women only pretend to care about any man’s opinion on anything, so her brother don’t matter.
From Wojo the Action Hero