Gilded Bay One too many

She'd been so engrossed in her "game," and the smell of salt was so overwhelming, she hadn't noticed him approach. Chip jumped at least two feet straight up off the sand when he began, and it took her a few seconds to comprehend what he had said. She had some options here, and she cycled through them in a matter of a few more seconds. She could roll her eyes and tell him off. She could send another insult flying back at him. But really she felt like doing the least-expected thing possible.

"My love! I've waited all my life to find you, and now here you are, standing right in front of me," she swooned in a southern drawl, batting her eyelashes and swaying her hips. (Yes, she does this to every boy she meets.) "I never thought I'd see the day I'd lay eyes upon your handsome face, but I reckon the powers above have granted me this great gift." And now to see how he reacted to that.