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kidding me?”
“Is that a good thing?” she asked with a chuckle. “I mean I know those kinds of cars can be worth something when they look really good, but I have no idea what shape it’s in. She said it needed a lot of work.”
“Where is it? Up at her place in Oregon?”
“Yeah. So you’re interested?”
“Hell yes I’m interested.”
“Good, then you can have it if you find a way to haul it out of her garage.”
“That’s not a problem,” he shook his head. “But I’m not just taking a car like that from someone. I’ll pay something for it. I mean I don’t really have any funds available right now—I mean I have a lot saved but don’t want to touch it—”
“Jay, she’s just giving it to me. She made me feel like she’d be indebted to me just by getting it out of her house. I’m handing it over to you because that’s your kind of thing.”
“Well, then let me see what I can do for it first. If it’s a car I can re-sell—which I’m sure I can, unless it’s just a pile of scrap—then we’ll split the profit.”
“You’re going to be doing all the work on it, so you keep whatever you make from it. I certainly didn’t do anything to earn it, and I’m definitely not going to be working on it. Out of all the things my mom could have given me over the years—you know, time and love and normal stuff like that—she gives me a damn junk car because she wants it out of her house? No thanks. But since she said she was just going to give it away to someone, I told her I’d take it for you to have. She was overjoyed.”
Jay was overjoyed, as well. He was puttin g in extra hours at Beck’s, and now with two cars to restore, he just might be getting ahead in life in the near future.
“Melanie, I love that you’re so giving like that. But I also want you to consider your own situation right now. You’re getting some of the profit, no questions asked. Put it away for the baby or…take some college classes or something.”
“College,” she scoffed, playfully sticking her tongue out.
Jay chuckled. “Yeah, I hear ya on that one. Not my thing, either.”
“That’s not what I heard,” she smiled at him.
“What is it that you heard?”
“Jay, I know how smart you are. You graduated with a 3.4 GPA, despite all the trouble you got into all the time.”
He shook his head with a smile. “Teague dropped out of high school after his junior year, and even though he got his GED and paved his own way, he threatened to kill me if I dropped out too. But other than that, I just wanted to get the fuck away from my dad. I was hoping to get a football scholarship, but then that went down the shitter in a matter of seconds.”
Melanie spun on her stool to face him and asked, “Is that when you broke your leg?”
“Well, I did break my leg my senior year, but that’s not why I lost out on a scholarship offer. That’s where the ‘stupid shit’ comes into play. You know, the gambling and stuff.”
She nodded her head because she already knew about it. Jay hadn’t kept much from Melanie. They both came with pasts that could have easily been kept a secret, but neither of them had really felt the need to. It’s why Jay never kept anything from her. She had always been upfront about herself, so he’d automatically offered her the same. No matter how much shit they threw at each other, the baggage always came with mutual acceptance.
It’s why she was easily one of his best friends.
“Well your life wasn’t meant to go that way,” Melanie told him matter-of-factly. “Now you’re meant for something else.”
She gave him another smile before she went back to eating, and being here in Teague’s house again brought back a lot of memories that involved Melanie. In a way he wished he’d never moved out, but he knew it was the right thing to do. Life seemed to be changing quickly, and Jay was learning to adjust on the fly.
But there were some things that would never change with
“Is that a good thing?” she asked with a chuckle. “I mean I know those kinds of cars can be worth something when they look really good, but I have no idea what shape it’s in. She said it needed a lot of work.”
“Where is it? Up at her place in Oregon?”
“Yeah. So you’re interested?”
“Hell yes I’m interested.”
“Good, then you can have it if you find a way to haul it out of her garage.”
“That’s not a problem,” he shook his head. “But I’m not just taking a car like that from someone. I’ll pay something for it. I mean I don’t really have any funds available right now—I mean I have a lot saved but don’t want to touch it—”
“Jay, she’s just giving it to me. She made me feel like she’d be indebted to me just by getting it out of her house. I’m handing it over to you because that’s your kind of thing.”
“Well, then let me see what I can do for it first. If it’s a car I can re-sell—which I’m sure I can, unless it’s just a pile of scrap—then we’ll split the profit.”
“You’re going to be doing all the work on it, so you keep whatever you make from it. I certainly didn’t do anything to earn it, and I’m definitely not going to be working on it. Out of all the things my mom could have given me over the years—you know, time and love and normal stuff like that—she gives me a damn junk car because she wants it out of her house? No thanks. But since she said she was just going to give it away to someone, I told her I’d take it for you to have. She was overjoyed.”
Jay was overjoyed, as well. He was puttin g in extra hours at Beck’s, and now with two cars to restore, he just might be getting ahead in life in the near future.
“Melanie, I love that you’re so giving like that. But I also want you to consider your own situation right now. You’re getting some of the profit, no questions asked. Put it away for the baby or…take some college classes or something.”
“College,” she scoffed, playfully sticking her tongue out.
Jay chuckled. “Yeah, I hear ya on that one. Not my thing, either.”
“That’s not what I heard,” she smiled at him.
“What is it that you heard?”
“Jay, I know how smart you are. You graduated with a 3.4 GPA, despite all the trouble you got into all the time.”
He shook his head with a smile. “Teague dropped out of high school after his junior year, and even though he got his GED and paved his own way, he threatened to kill me if I dropped out too. But other than that, I just wanted to get the fuck away from my dad. I was hoping to get a football scholarship, but then that went down the shitter in a matter of seconds.”
Melanie spun on her stool to face him and asked, “Is that when you broke your leg?”
“Well, I did break my leg my senior year, but that’s not why I lost out on a scholarship offer. That’s where the ‘stupid shit’ comes into play. You know, the gambling and stuff.”
She nodded her head because she already knew about it. Jay hadn’t kept much from Melanie. They both came with pasts that could have easily been kept a secret, but neither of them had really felt the need to. It’s why Jay never kept anything from her. She had always been upfront about herself, so he’d automatically offered her the same. No matter how much shit they threw at each other, the baggage always came with mutual acceptance.
It’s why she was easily one of his best friends.
“Well your life wasn’t meant to go that way,” Melanie told him matter-of-factly. “Now you’re meant for something else.”
She gave him another smile before she went back to eating, and being here in Teague’s house again brought back a lot of memories that involved Melanie. In a way he wished he’d never moved out, but he knew it was the right thing to do. Life seemed to be changing quickly, and Jay was learning to adjust on the fly.
But there were some things that would never change with
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