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He nodded and smiled "Yes, sir Miss Will took Tink out for a ride a little bit ago Should I stay and help her with the horse when she gets back?"

"Nah Courtney is a big girl She can handle it Thanks, dude I’ll see you toht? Mr Morris will be back in the afternoon, and then you can officially meet him"

He reached out and shook my hand "Sounds like a plan, sir"

He turned and headed off to his old Chevy truck, and I headed back to the chair I had been sitting in It was so damn hot out, and all I wanted to do was ju around, reading this stupid book of hers I wouldn’t dare tell her I’d bought myself a Kindle, and I had loaded her favorite book on it I had to knohat it was that had alwaysbefore I was coht I heard a noise, but I couldn’t pull my eyes away from the Kindle Nick was just about to--

"Whatcha doin’ there?" Courtney whispered intothe shit out of me

I jumped up so fast that it caused ht into the pool, Kindle and all

Courtney started screa, "No! My Kindle! You asshole, you ruined an sto everywhere, and I couldn’t help but smile

I quickly re out of the pool "Nice You’re worried about a stupid-ass Kindle No, really, I’m fine, Courtney I didn’t just fall into a pool where I could have possibly hurtaround and looked at , for Christ’s sake You fell into a pool…with my Kindle!"

She reached for the Kindle, and I swore she wiped a tear away I shook my head and then pulledto make up for the fact that this is the second Kindle that has been destroyed while…"

I pulledwhile she moved her eyes up and down my body The moment she bit down on her lower lip and let out a s to killI don’t want to walk through the house while I’rabbed the Kindle "By the way, this isn’t your Kindle"

She picked up my wet shirt and jeans and followed me "Wait, what? If it’s not my Kindle, then whose Kindle is it? And why…" Then, she started laughing "Oh My God Reed Moore, were you…reading?"

I stopped, spun around, and looked down into her beautiful blue eyes while I gave her the best panty- s Now, if you’ll excuse o out"

Her s out? Where?"

I turned and walked away fro my way into the house I didn’t want to tell her that after she had pushed me away the other day, I’d called up Melissa from work and asked her out for dinner It was a dickto think of reasons to get out of it

"Reed?" Courtney said in a soft voice

I stopped at the edge of the stairs and looked back at her "What?"