For Keeps (Aggie's Inheritance) Read Online Free PDF

on the porch, and the gentle whack of his car door as he prepared to drive home. How had she missed his arrival? The sounds of night seemed to press around her as she listened to see what else she might have missed.
    As time passed, the realization that she was going on yet another date with William washed over her. Tina would be excited that she was going out at all. For a moment, she grew nervous as memories of the last fiasco, otherwise known as her first date, flooded her mind. She shook herself. Surely, nothing could be as truly horrifying as their last attempt.
     
     
    Luke says: You’re up late, Aggie.
    Aggie says: Well, I was hoping to get your mom. I made a list of girls, patterns for each, and stuff to buy, but I was curious about buttonholes vs. zippers.
    Luke says: What about them?
    Aggie says: Well, which one is easier? A buttonhole or a zipper. William says zippers. What are your thoughts? If your mom was online, I’d ask, but…
    Luke says: Well, I can only tell you what I think I remember, but I’m pretty sure that my sister hates zippers with an unparalleled passion.
    Aggie says: Oh, great! I remade my lists only to include zippers. That was a waste of time.
    Luke says: Don’t worry about it. Mom will tell you which is easier and then show you how to cut whatever you want out for either thing.
    Aggie says: She can DO THAT?
    Luke says: *chuckles* Aggie, Mom doesn’t use patterns half the time. She knows what she’s doing, and, fortunately for Vannie, she’s fast.
    Aggie says: WOW! Ok, well do you think she can help me find affordable fabric? I spent a while on Google looking, but so much of it is over eight dollars a yard!
    Luke says: I think she has favorite sites bookmarked.
    Aggie says: Oh good! These patterns seem to take two to three yards of fabric. That’s eighteen to twenty-seven dollars just in fabric for one outfit. Who knows what buttons and zippers and thread and…
    Aggie says: *looks at pattern jacket* elastic and bias tape -- what is bias tape?
    Luke says: Strips of fabric, cut on the diagonal, and then sewn together and pressed. I don’t remember what it’s FOR, but I’ve bought enough of that stuff and ironed enough of it when my “ fingers needed employment ” to keep me out of trouble, that I’ll never forget WHAT it is.
    Aggie says: Well good. You’ll be the official bias man. Hey, does that make you biased?
    Luke says: Probably.
    Aggie says: Anyway, I have to find fabric. The stuff Vannie has… it seems so juvenile for a girl going into the eighth grade.
    Luke says: Um, Mom probably has that covered. She loaded my truck with two totes of fabric, her button box, zipper basket, thread and bobbin boxes, notions basket, both sewing machines, and her serger. Interfacing blew off the notions basket, so she’s digging more of that out now. It was across the road and in a gutter before we could save it.
    Aggie says: Hmm…
    Luke says? What?
    Aggie says: Does what you just said make sense to you?
    Luke says: LOL Yep!
    Aggie says: Well, I got sewing machine, thread, buttons, zippers, and fabric, but the rest… scary.
    Luke says: Scary how?
    Aggie says: Did you ever take Home Ec . in school?
    Luke says: In school, no.
    Aggie says: That’s how scary. I did. Those things should mean something to me, I assume. They don’t. I know what lath is now,
    thanks to yesterday’s project, but I have no idea what…
    Aggie says: Sorry, had to scroll up to find the right word. Interfacing is and why you’d want a face on your inters in the first place.
    Luke says: LOL. Well, it doesn’t have anything to do with faces…
    Aggie says: Luke?
    Luke says: Yes, Mibs?
    Luke says: Oh, sorry.
    Aggie says: For what?
    Luke says: You don’t like that nickname.
    Aggie says: I don’t?
    Luke says: You told me to stop calling you that.
    Aggie says: I did?
    Luke says: *chuckles* Just before Tavish derailed your room’s paint job.
    Aggie says: Oh, during my emotional collapse. Ignore me.
    Luke says: Now,