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Turn up the Heat

Turn up the Heat

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Autoren: Jessica Conant-Park , Susan Conant
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materialized from behind a counter. “Miss Penelope is out there, huh? Nice going, Kev!”
    “Kevin’s got a girlfriend,” sang Blythe.
    Josh came out of the walk-in with three ceramic ramekins that held raspberry crème brûlée. He set them down near Kevin. “Here you go. Can you just finish them off for me? Sprinkle them with sugar and throw them under the broiler for a minute or two.” Josh handed over three ramekins. “And there’s some more fresh raspberries around here somewhere, too, for garnish.”
    While Kevin sprinkled sugar, Blythe leaned over to me and whispered in my ear. “You probably don’t know this, but Kevin has it bad for that Penelope girl!” She giggled. “He’s been making eyes at her for weeks now, and I don’t think she’s interested in the least. It’s pathetic, really. He keeps asking me if I’ve seen her outside, and he made all of us say that we’d go find him the minute she comes in. Maybe if he got rid of those stupid sideburns!”
    I giggled and then noticed Kevin looking over at us. “Mmm,” I muttered vaguely, trying to cover up my smile. Seriously, though, Kevin did need to get rid of those things. At a guess, he’d grown the sideburns in an effort to make himself look young and trendy, but their effect was exactly the opposite.
    Blythe must have seen Kevin watching us, too, because she said jokingly, “Yes, we’re talking about you, Kevin! And Chloe’s going to go tell your new girlfriend everything I’m saying!”
    Kevin took the raspberry desserts to the broiler and ignored Blythe’s teasing.
    The kitchen phone rang. Josh picked it up. “No. Not yet... I have no idea... Okay. Bye.” Josh turned to me. “That was Adrianna calling to see if Owen is here. Where the hell is he, anyway? We’re supposed to get our fish in the morning, not just before dinner!” Josh put his hands on his hips. “God, I barely got through lunch with what we have. Owen better get his ass here fast, or I’m gonna drop him!” Josh continued his prep work.
    “Dammit!” Kevin yelled as he pulled out three burned brûlées from the broiler.
    “I got you!” Josh said, retrieving more raspberry delights for the nervous bartender. “Keep an eye on those. They’ll burn in a second.”
    “Thanks, man.” Kevin took a breath and started cleaning up the mess.
    Owen stomped into the kitchen in his heavy work boots, a white box in his hands. “I know! I know! I’m sorry!” he hollered out to the entire room. “I’m totally behind schedule today, and I forgot your razor clams at the warehouse, so I had to go back to the waterfront, and there was an accident right at the turnoff to—”
    Josh held up his hand to stop Owen. “Just give me my clams, you loser,” he said, grinning at the frazzled Owen.
    Owen smiled back at him. “Let me grab the rest of your stuff from the truck.”
    “Hey, Chloe.” Blythe nudged me and started whispering again. “You know how I told you that my friend Katie picked Kevin up at a bar? Well, you won’t believe what else she told me!” Blythe raised her eyebrows and bit her lip. “Kevin doesn’t know that I know that they slept together, and it’s a good thing, too, because then he’d really be afraid of me making fun of him.”
    Oh, this sounded good. “What?” I asked, always eager for a little gossip.
    She softly cleared her throat. Speaking so softly that I had to strain to hear her, she said, “Apparently... How do I say this? Kevin’s, you know, thing" she said with a knowing look, “is very... um, weird.”
    I choked back a laugh. “What? What do you mean?” Blythe spoke out of the corner of her mouth, as if twisting her lips would somehow lighten what she was trying to say. “Katie said his penis is bent. Like, not just a little, but, you know...” Blythe held up one hand in the shape of the letter C and put her other hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing.
    “What are you talking about?”
    “Like, seriously bent. Curved. Whatever it is, it’s not, well... straight!”
    “Oh, my God, Blythe, I so didn’t need to know that!”
    “You think I want to know that? I had to tell someone, though!”
    I turned so that my back was to Kevin. There was no way I could watch him hover over the crème brûlées right after hearing this weirdly intimate detail. “I’m definitely not repeating that! But if Kevin winds up with that Penelope girl, I guess she’ll find out for herself.”
    “Yeah, but by then

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