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I groaned “You better give me a five-star review on Yelp”

“And a free pizza? I had no idea you were so cheap”

“Man, fuck off,” I scoffed, but there was no heat behind my words Max and I liked to pick on each other, but ays knehere to draw the line It was one of the things I liked about hiruff exterior and suffered fro bitchface, but he was surprisingly easy going once you got to know him

We spent the next fewcardboard boxes up five-high along the sidewalk It was a hot su before I started to break into a sweat He’d borrowed the van fro first thing the next day with all of his sister’s belongings With the van now e around I wanted to get the job done quickly, anxious to get back to the garage to get started on my latest project

“When’s Terri supposed to get here?”

“I texted her a fewthe last little bit and putting it in her car”

“Do you think she’s excited to be back?” I asked,polite conversation

Max set his jaw as he leaned against the back doors of the van, crossing his ar to be expected of a firefighter– so the subtle shift in his posture ca than I think he intended He cast his eyes to the ground and kicked a pebble near the tip of his shoe “Maybe,” he muttered “I don’t really know”

“Wasn’t she off at college?”

“Yeah Studying journalish”

I was about to ask him why this was, but a white Honda Civic pulled up to the curb a yard or so behind thevan Ti the vehicle She was probably the eous woe breasts hidden away beneath a forn She also had an incredibly round ass, accented by the low-cut of her light blue jean shorts Worst of all, she had legs for days, smooth tanned skin practically bronze beneath the hot suht pink windbreaker, and she wore an adorable pair of white sneakers Her long blonde hair had an elegant curl to theold I wasn’t able to get a good look at her face because she had on a pair of dark sunglasses that obstructed most of my view