100% Compatibility novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Front Door
The line for the Showcase went around the block twice.
I had expected four hundred couples in evening gowns, and Odette had expected the same.
What stood on the sidewalk at half past six was four hundred people in work jackets.
There were paramedics in navy, bus drivers in transit blue, and nurses in scrubs under their coats.
A dozen waitresses from the Dot Ave Diner stood together in their aprons.
The old man from the counter had a folding chair, which he wasn't using.
Maeve sat at a card table by the hall's front steps, behind a stack of cream tickets as high as a phone book.
A banner taped to the table said LOCAL 8 PARAMEDICS in marker.
"Name, union, favorite pie," she said to each person, and ticked a box.
"Why pie?" said a nurse.
"Because I can't spell your name," said Maeve.
I stood on the curb with my arm through Ronan's.
He wore a black overcoat and a tie I had straightened twice.
"Four hundred," I said.
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