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"No! I will not fucking enlighten you!" I yelled at hiiving advice Because you have no idea!" His eyes ide The place was silent There should be so toMy heart was sla inside edbut try and be my friend Hoas he to kno my life was a crockpot of shit

I didn’t look at any of theh I felt their eyes on me

"I’m sorry," I said not just to Diesel but to Netty and h It closed firht My keys in the purse on my arm I reached inside and found them I liked this job I liked the people here But I’d just yelled and cursed out Ethel’s nephew like the crazy person I was I’d shown theirl I had hidden so well for years It was bound to happen My snapping Mentally co point into looney land

"Scarlet!" Ethel’s voice called out loudly I didn’t want to look at her Listen to her But I owed her She’d given irl with no references or former jobs With a deep inhale, I tried to steady et Then I turned to face her

She was stalking out toward me A serious expression on her face It wasn’t exactly a scowl but it was determined I didn’t want Ethel to hate me She’d been nice totiot the breakfast crowd gonna be here in a few minutes God knows that boy can’t handle this alone"

I had expected her to yell at me, scold me, tell me to take myself on out and not coht she’d coet back inside Had she not seenlike a lunatic?

"You don’t wantsure I understood her correctly Maybe she wanted et out

"Because you yelled at the boy? I’m not sure why or what he said but sometimes a woman has a reason to yell at a man It happens We’re feother arm toward her and the diner

I still had a job

I would think about Bray later Tonight When I was alone

I could yell and scream inbut be nosy Hoas he to knowat me like I’d lostmove! What about your job? What about" he trailed off before re me I had to take medication to function normally Or what everyone else considered nor s were packed and in the truck I just needed Brent to drive me to Joe Kirks so I could buy the red 1998 Chevy Pickup he had for sale in his front yard I had enough in s to pay cash and I’d taken it out of the bank on reed to sell it to rand

I didn’t need to defendback to Robertsdale before Scarlet got out of as ioing to do I just knew I needed sory at her stubbornness and then calure shit out All that had taken about thirty minutes and I’d been on the road headed North before I realized my decision had beenthe Chevy and going south I don’t need your advice, Brent"

Brent tilted his head back to stare up at the barn rafters and sighed loudly "This is a s I could say Cruel things But I didn’t Just because Brent had moved on to Sadie didn’t mean it was okay for me to tell him what he’d missed from Scarlet He hadn’t known her at all She wasopen and sunlight filled the roo at us His shirt was soaked with sweat and his hair was equally damp The summer heat was already in full force

"Glad you two fuckers can stand around in the cool ass barn while I work Don’t let irlie chatter" His sarcasto be with Scarlet! Talk sousted It annoyed ly and silly No depth I wanted to stuff a sock in her ularly

Steel had paused for a moment and looked at me "Hmmm," he replied with only a tiny amount of interest on his face "Good luck with that Don’t reckon it’s ive Mo Moarden to talk to her before I headed to get the truck "I aive ot for sale out in his yard?" I asked Steel deciding I was done trying to talk to Brent

Steel nodded slowly "That’s a good truck Old but a classic 1998 Chevy’s were made well Nice body style Talk to Momma and I’ll et this new cover over the well lifted I just got the rotten one off" He didn’t wait for Brent to respond before he dropped the tool box on the shelf and walked out "Hurry I got more shit to do," he said as he left

Brent shot oes to shit, I will remind you that I told you so"

"When you finally put a piece of fucking duct tape on Sadie’syour advice on women," I shot back at him, then followed Steel out of the barn to find Mo asshole!" he called out behind reed with a lift of my hand but didn’t turn around to look at hi her own voice He just didn’t want to ade and root vegetables This time of year the carrots, turnips, and beetroot were ready to pull As well as the cabbage and if ere lucky the broccoli I could see her on her knees in the dirt with a carrot she was inspecting in her hand I’d grown up in this garden As kids we’d run out to the garden, pull one of the carrots, wash it under the faucet out by the barn, then ate it as a snack It had been years since any of us had eaten a carrot right out of the garden as a snack Noere rab a beer that we kept stashed in the barn cooler

Moot closer and she heardshe shaded her eyes froh she took the carrot and put it in the bucket beside her How she could read our thoughts that easily always iven soift from heaven to raise us or she was into witchcraft