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day to say hello.”
    “ In the woods. What, when you were
drinking? Do you think that is appropriate?” he asked me with a
serious look on his face.
    “ He was just
there; I don’t know what you want me to say,” I said. My mother
stayed quiet; she let my dad do all the
talking.
    “ You need to be careful about
where you hang around. What if this guy had hurt you or lord knows
what?”
    “ It won’t happen
again, that’s all I can say.” I got up from the table lingering in
the kitchen to hear what the punishment for Gray would be. Or what
they would say to him to hurt his ego. My dad was good at that because Gray always wanted to seem good to
him.
    “ I hope you’re not having girls
here all night. And if you are, you know …” he trailed
off.
    “ We were studying. It wasn’t
anything like that, dad. I have a dorm room, um, well, you know
what I mean. I wouldn’t-“Gray bit his lip. I didn’t think that was
much of a lecture.
    “ You know how I
feel about that,” my dad said, going into
the kitchen.
    “ I know, Dad. It really was
nothing though.” Gray looked at me, shaking his head. Someone
tapped on the door.
    “ Eve, get that will you?” my
mother said, looking flustered.
    I sighed, walking to the door. I
was starting to feel like a maid who got no pay. It took me by
surprise to see Ace; he looked at me with an inquisitively. He’d
probably overheard the feud. I opened the door letting him pass
through.
    “ What are you doing
here?”
    “ Work. Your dad asked
me.”
    I nodded, suddenly realizing
it was Ace he had been referring to all
this time. My dad came quickly into the
room greeting him graciously.
    “ Thanks for coming. And on time,
that’s always a good quality to have.” He headed out the door with
Ace.
    I stared off at them as my dad
began talking, scratching his head and pointing at things. Ace
calmly listened, nodding his head every once in a while or
grinning.
    My dad got Ace started on the roof and went back inside. I came out
onto the porch. Ace was hammering away on the
roof.
    He looked over. “Hey
there.”
    “ Hey,” I said, sitting down on the
steps.
    “ Everything alright?” he asked me,
putting a nail in his mouth holding it between his lips; he raised
an eyebrow at me waiting for a reply.
    “ My brother has a big mouth. My
dad got mad about my drinking in the woods.”
    “ This is what normal parents would
do,” he said, hammering away.
    “ Yeah to be expected right?” I
asked sarcastically.
    Ace shook his head. “You’re
definitely something else.”
    “ You seem to think so,” I said
under my breath.
    “ I do. I don’t think it’s a bad
thing. I never said that did I?” he asked.
    “ No, you never said
that.”
    “ Well good, just so you
know.”
    “ I know. So what made you agree to
do work for my dad? And how did Mark get a hold of you?”
    “ Your brother is in my class.
Maybe he paid enough attention to find my phone number, I don’t
know. And why did I agree? Two reasons.” He moved over on the roof
dragging the roofing with him.
    I waited for his answer
but he didn’t say anything else.
    “ Well?”
    “ Well what?”
    “ What are the two reasons?” He
clearly knew what he was doing;
    “ One: to be polite. Two: to see
you again.” He hopped down from the roof. He clearly was hot- his
hair was sweaty his face red. I was sort of glad and sort of
embarrassed he had said that.
    I was also flattered. He was a
good looking guy. Oh what was I saying. I was putting my cart
before the horse. He may have just been trying to be friendly, I
didn’t know.
    “ To see me? Why would you want to
see me?”
    “ You’re interesting to talk to,
you amuse me, and you’re attractive,” he rattled off the
compliments as he went about his business. I was stunned that he
was being so honest.
    “ Well, thanks, I
think.”
    “ You think? What does that even
mean?” He was smiling as he headed back up to the roof.
    He tossed his shirt down.