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    Jeremy leaned his head around to try to look in her face. “ Nora, I feel like I’ve never had a chance to talk to you, to get to know you. That’s all I’m doing here.
    She relaxed and turned toward him. “ I feel like I have never known you. You seem so different than I ever knew before.”
    He laughed, “ Because of my singing.”
    She r eturned his laughter. “Yes, majorly. You embarrassed me at school all the time.”
    “ Remember our deal,” she reminded him jokingly. “You promised.”
    Holding up his fingers, he agreed, “ Scout’s honor.”
    “ Whew!” she let out a breath. “I’m glad we got that settled.”
    He laughed at her. “ I think I should get you home because if you enjoyed yourself tonight I would like to date you again.”
    Jeremy seemed like a totally different person than what he was at school. “ Do you think you will study to be a lawyer some day?” she asked.
    “ I’m still debating that issue.” He continued thoughtfully, “I am working at the law office during the day this summer trying to get a feel of it. To see if it is something I could do as a profession. Graduation is only a year away and I need to make some decisions soon.”
    Nora now understood why he was never around when she was walking the sidewalks waiting for him to pounce on her, so to speak.
    When they got to the front door, Jeremy stopped, “Thank you for going on a date with me, even if I did bribe you.”
    She laughed, “ Well, we got through it,” she laughed. “I really had a good time. I enjoyed being with you and the movie.”
    Bolstered by her comment he quickly brushed a kiss across her lips.
    He surprised her by saying, “I’ve wanted to kiss you for so long.”
    My , she thought, this night is full of surprises. What she said was, “I had no idea.”
    “ Get used to that idea, my beautiful Nora.”
    Her mom and dad had already gone to their bedroom. She was so thankful that she didn ’t have to face them. She had so many whirling emotions going on, she needed to be alone. To think all this through was going to take a while.

 
     
     
     
    Chapter Five
    Nora’s dad seemed to feel better after they had moved into town. He read the paper, visited with the neighbors, and discussed politics with anybody who wanted to stop and visit with him on his porch swing. He took more interest in Nora’s and Danny’s everyday life, at least Nora thought so. Now that they didn’t have to spend every minute of the day working, everybody seemed more pleasant, almost like a personality change.
    Nora, though, was used to being busy and she looked around for something to do. She walked around to the back yard. There stood a tall oak tree. S he guessed it to be about forty feet tall with a diameter of about fourteen inches. That would make a great tree for Danny a tree house. On the other side of the back yard was a pile of rubbish piled up where an old storage shed used to be but it had collapsed from neglect and old age. What an eyesore , she thought. Dad’s probably not well enough to clean that up, so I will.
    She went into the house and donned some of her old jeans and an old shirt that she used to wear on the dairy. She went to find her dad to see if he would drive the pickup into the alley for her to pile the old rubbish and debris into it to be hauled away.
    “ Dad,” she asked, “do you mind if I clean up that pile of stuff out of the corner of the back yard?”
    “ First, I want to go back there and see what you have in mind.”
    “ Okay,” she walked around back with him. “See over there?” she pointed. “I want to clean up that mess.”
    “ Sweetheart,” I’ll get that cleaned up someday.” He patted her on the shoulder, “Don’t you want to get with some of your girlfriends and fix hairdos or something like that?”
    Nora looked at him in shock, “ Why would I want to do that?” she asked with a sour look on her face.
    Amused at her, he said, “ I’ll get the