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Shay, since practice got cancelled. Can’t I hang out here?” Olivia whines. She even stomps her foot, sometimes she’s a bit immature, single child syndrome and all that.
     
    “ Olivia McEwyen, you have a piano lesson. To the car, now.” Her mother uses her authoritative tone, it always gets Liv moving.
     
    “ Sorry Shay, I’ll see ya later. I have a piano lesson.” She spits out the last word like it’s poison as she walks toward the door glaring at her mom.
     
    Mrs. McEwyen stops at the register before leaving. She rubs her eyes with her hands and sighs.
     
    “ Shay, please count the money before closing up, you can leave it in the safe in the storage room.” She takes a look at the money made today before heading out. It sits in the antique cash register. We only use it on the floor, all of the real financial records are done on a laptop in the storage room.
     
    “ No problem.” I say with a smile trying to cheer her up. She looks stressed today, her little tiff with Olivia really seemed to drain her. But it could be more than that.
     
    The economy sucks right now. As well off as the McEwyens are, I wonder if the shop is making any money at all. I really hope they don’t let me go, I don’t really have any other way to make the extra income.
     
    I tried babysitting once, a little boy named Henry. All was going well until we were playing hide and go seek and Henry fell asleep in a closet. I searched for him frantically for an hour. It was an awkward moment when his parents arrived home and put their coats in the hallway closet and found their son sleeping in there… oops. They paid me half and didn’t call me again. There’s not much else available in our little town, so here I am.
     
    It’s not that Mom wouldn’t give me money if I needed it, but I like to have my own money. With both Chad and I being teenagers I know we spend my mom’s cash as fast as she can make it. There was a job available at the library at the college. I might need to look into that.
     
    I sit down to read my book as the door chimes, meaning Liv and her mom are definitely gone for the evening. Mrs. McEywen never minds me reading on the job. She always says she wishes Olivia would take after me and my love of reading some more. After I read a few chapters and it starts to get dark, I inventory the new glassware. I’m putting it on some of the shelves against the back wall when I hear the door chime again.
     
    “ Be right there!” I say as I place the last few vases strategically on the shelf right above my head.
     
    “ No problem,” I hear a male voice respond. He sounds young, around my age. I make sure to shake my hair out before I turn the corner and see him standing there.
     
    It’s the boy from the quad. Oh my freaking God.
     
    “ Hi, I’m looking for a picture frame. For my mom’s birthday. Got anything that would work for that?”
     
    Brain, turn on, now please! “Uhhh what?” is all I can manage to get out… super .
     
    He raises his eyebrows at me as he smiles, “A picture frame, for my mom.”
     
    Things begin to click into place, “Oh yeah, ummm there’s some up on the table in front of the counter, let me show you.” I extend my hand as I walk over to the display. I use my Vanna White skills to present the frames. There are a couple of really unique ones here.
     
    He picks up a brass frame with ornate edges and turns it over to see the price. “It’s twenty three dollars,” I say, “I priced that one myself.”
     
    “ Mmmhmm,” he responds not even looking at me still admiring the frame. I stare at him and realize it looks like he calculating in his head. I walk behind the counter while looking out the window. The only other car in the parking lot is a beat up yellow pickup truck. Twenty three bucks might be a lot for a birthday gift for Mom.
     
    “ You know,” I say apprehensively, “I know my boss will take twenty for that one. It’s been sitting on the shelf a