He could just barely see her over the stacks of Fuji apples he was stacking carefully. She was pretty enough for him to notice her every time she came into the store. He watched her as she chose tomatoes, celery, and broccoli crowns from the vegetable end of the produce section. He always worked at the fruit end, and it bothered him that the tomatoes were placed down the vegetable end, even though they were really fruit. He kept one eye on her as she moved along the produce and around the adjacent bread aisle. She would be coming to his end soon. He had been going over in his head what he would say to her. Maybe this was the day he would tell her. This could be the day that changed it all. She was now near the bananas, so close but not close enough. She twisted the bag and placed the bananas in her cart and then pushed her way past the naval oranges and tangelos. She saw him then and smiled up at him as she approached the apple section. Tearing another plastic bag from the roll at the end of the stand and shaking it open, she reached for the green Granny Smith apple bin. “This is it,” he whispered to himself, “This is the day I tell her.” He abruptly grabbed onto her elbow just as she was selecting the first apple, “Excuse me miss,” he told her, “I’ve seen you every time you come here when I’m working and I have something to tell you.” She looked up at him dropping the apple she had just chosen to the floor. She felt her eyes widen in fear, because she had noticed him watching her every time she came shopping and it gave her the creeps. Glancing down at his firm grip on her elbow, she swallowed audibly once and said, “What is it?” He glanced over his shoulder once and tightened his grasp slightly. Bending forward until his mouth was close to her ear, he whispered, “Do you realize that you have a horribly long hair growing just under your chin? Its all I can focus on when I see you and its rather disturbing. The tweezers are on aisle 9.” Then he released her and nodded his head twice and smiled at her. He had done it. Now he could stop having the nightmares.