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         Instead of answering me , he asks , “What are you doing in this part of town , sweetheart?   I know you don’t live over here.”  Normally, it would have irritated me when someone called me that , but for some reason, it sounded good coming from him.
     
         “And just how do you know I don’t live over here?” I ask raising my voice a couple of notches , “I could live here there is nothing wrong with it!”
     
         He stares down at me for a moment before I look up at him.  When I look up, he smiles at me and it melts me on the spot.  All of the anger I just had for him assuming I’m too good for this part of town evaporated.  His blue eyes sparkled like he knew a secret I didn’t.  I hadn’t realized before how prominent his dimples were.  They only showed when he smiled and i t made me think he was somehow saving them for me.  I remember seeing or reading that dimples are imperfections.  Whoever said that had obviously never been lucky enough to see Cash Davis .  Get it together Millie, I scolded myself .  This boy is implying that I know I’m too good for this part of town and I’m over here debating freaking birth defects with myself!
     
         “I never said there was something wrong with it.”
     
         “You implied it , ” I said as I raised my chin so he would know I wouldn’t give in.
     
         “That’s bullshit and you know it , ” h e said still smiling.
     
         Dang , this boy had a mouth on him.  I blushed, I just know it.  Not that I had never cussed, I just didn’t use it in regular conversation.  I was used to it though , because Jessica cussed like a sailor a year ago.  S he has cleaned it up quite a bit, but she still drops the occasional f - bomb when she’s angry.
     
         “I’m here to pick up my friend.”  I don’t know why I ended up giving him the real reason I was there.  He made me feel like I wanted to tell him everything about me.  Ugh, how is this happening to me?  I don’t even know him .
     
         “Uh huh , ” h e said and started to walk away from me. 
     
         I turned around and put my hand on my hip and asked, “ And what are you doing in this part of town?” 
     
         “I live here , sweetheart . ” H e started laughing and walked away from me. 
     
         This stupid boy could really be a jerk.  He was starting to get under my skin and it really made me angry that I couldn’t get one up on him.  He always seemed to be one step ahead of me with his comebacks and no matter how mad I got at him , I could appreciate that on some level.
     
         I walked up to J ess’ door and knocked .  She opened it with her bag in hand ready to go.  We walked back to the car and as we got in , I noticed Cash had the h ood to his car up and there were three or four guys around him looking at it. 
     
         “He has such a cool ride , ” Jess said as I was backing up.
     
         “Yeah, he told me he lives in your apartment building.”
     
         “Yeah, he actually moved in next door.  When I met him earlier today , I was going to call you , but I just figured I would tell you in person. ”
     
         “What happened to your old neighbor , Ms. Thomas?”
     
         “She went in the nursing home a couple of weeks ago. He r son said he didn’t want her to be unattended anymore.  When you told me today at school that you had met the guy from the D airy Q ueen, I wasn’t expecting him to be my neighbor.”
     
         “Yeah, me either.”
     
         “He’s really nice and he knows a lot about cars and stuff.  He is actually the one that told Anna what was wrong with the car.  He drove her to the garage and helped her drop it off.  She said he probably saved her some money because he was the one that talked to the mechanic.”
     
         Hmm, I thought.  Why is he nice to Jess and Anna and not to me?  I didn’t voice this