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"No, I co to be gone for a couple of days I don’t think we’ll be back until Monday or Tuesday I hate to do this to you"
"Marie, don’t worry about it Fa I can do? Do you need anything?"
"No Just your understanding and love, that’s all we need I really hate this I know you wanted to spend the weekend with his fa you I feel horrible I’ure soive Gary and his fato do now? I had just unloaded the dryer when ain All of a sudden I was popular
"Hi Pete," I answered gluot off the phone with Marie Gary’s "
After a fewhiot to the reason for his call He had calculated the cost of the materials to do the stairwell remodel The steel door alone was several hundred combined with drywall and wood studs came to almost two thousand dollars
That didn’t include his labor
Pete figured once he got the work per he could start later that day, but it would be loud with all the banging and he’d have to cut through the brick wall to make the new outside door
"I can start the deet that out of the way Ta food for a luncheon she’s catering toet to tell you, she booked a party for Saturday, so she can’t work Friday and Saturday nights," he said
That put the icing onthat Tae the crowd but now that option was gone too
I snapped my phone shut and sat for a while I couldn’t handle the crowds onforward to a weekend off with Ryan and his parents Ryan had just made diner reservations for Friday His parents already cancelled their hotel stay Dah I couldn’t cancel on Ryan nor jeopardizehis parents for the first tiure out what to do
I was leaning on the washing rabbingoutonfor me to open, and it was obvious that they weren’t here to drink The line was so long, there must have been forty or et a better look at the situation I peeked through the blinds, shocked at what I saw Girls were leaning onon the sidewalk I looked in the other direction to confir believable!
Right then I et a piece of cardboard In ic er fron in myThey certainly left nored them and went back upstairs I had phone calls to make and bands to cancel There went my Halloeekend income
"I’m on my way," Ryan said when he called froht there?"
"There is no crowd Most of the girls left after I put the closed sign in the , although a couple of thehed
"Closed? Taryn, what’s-"
"I had no choice," IHe and Marie are leaving for Ta hoht"
"Jeez, why didn’t you call ive you bad nehile you’re having a stressful day as so as it is? I figured I’d fill you in when you got here"
"What about Cory? Isn’t he supposed to work tonight?"
"I cancelled him I cancelled the bands I had scheduled to play this weekend too Actually I’ve been on the phone most of the afternoon it seeht to start tearing down the drywall on the steps That was another reason – Ta jobs this weekend so she can’t work either"