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for me.
    The next day, David and Jeremy leave to go back to Charlotte for the rest of their belongings, leaving me with Granny and Pops. I'm expecting her to try to dissuade me from staying here, but whenever she starts to say anything, Pops shakes his head and she sighs and says nothing further. My brother is gone for three days, and when they return to Nashville, Jeremy starts looking for a job immediately, while David discusses plans for opening his own bar with PawPaw. I miss my parents every single day, but I'm thankful David chose to come home for me and brought his best friend with him.

Jeremy
     
    S B is finally (her words - not mine) sixteen, and she's been waiting for over a week for David to take her to get her license. Unfortunately, all of his time has been spent looking at potential places to open a bar with the money his parents left him in their will. David figured that since he enjoyed the bar scene and bar tending so much in Charlotte, that he'd open a bar in Nashville, a place where there's practically a bar on every corner. Their grandfather is an extremely successful businessman and was happy to help David come up with a business plan, find investors, and find a location to start this venture, but David drew the line at outside investors. He wants the bar to be all his own; the location, the name, the logo, he didn't want help with any of it. The only part I was involved in was the architectural aspect. Any design decisions to be made were on me. But, I couldn't do anything until he made a decision and at the time he was looking at three properties and could not make up his mind.
    I'd found a job at Moriarty, Stanbridge and Westlake pretty quickly thanks to a recommendation letter written by my old firm, even though I left with no notice. The fact that I finished the project I was working on at the time by telecommuting and short trips back to Charlotte helped them understand that, for me, family came first. With David so busy, he had no time to take SarahBeth to get a license and I couldn't take her because I wasn't her guardian. Finally, after the third time he'd promised to take her after school, only to call me because something came up, SB had had enough.
    When she sees me in the car line at school instead of David, her eyes narrow, her mouth turns down into a frown, and she practically breaks the door on my poor car. Muttering under her breath, she slams her book bag onto the floor between her legs and sits back in the seat crossing her arms over her chest. "I guess he's busy again isn't he?" She's trying to sound pissed off, but instead she's almost in tears.
    Running a hand through my hair, I sigh, "You know he's doing his best. Getting Drench up and running is his top priority right now." That is obviously the absolute wrong thing to say because her lip quivers and she turns to look out the passenger window.
    "Why did he even come back here then?" she asks, her voice thick with unshed tears. "I barely even get to see him, Jeremy. I've spent more time with you this month than I have him, and he never does what he says he's going to. He should have just let me go home with Granny."
    I reach over to pat her leg, not sure how to comfort her, but silently cursing David to hell for putting her through this. She needs her brother, not me, to be there for her, to do the things he said he was going to. I know there is going to be one hell of an argument tonight over this shit because I can't let him keep disappointing her. She's hurting, and I hate it. At the moment, I hate my best friend a little for treating her so callously. Between trying to get the bar going, and dealing with Amy and her long-distance drama, SarahBeth is the last thing on David's mind when she should be the first.
    "I'll talk to him tonight Little Bit, I promise." Hearing the vehement tone of my voice, she relaxes slightly, uncrossing her arms and wiping the tears from her cheeks. "How about we go practice your driving? I can't take