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“That’s real nice to say,” I said.
“Oh, stop,” Alex said. “You know if the old man was alive, he’d laugh too. Come on, let’s get out of here.”
Alex led the way down to the main path and toward her large pickup truck.
As soon as I got into the passenger seat, I looked forward and saw Tad.
He looked annoyed.
I leaned toward Alex and whispered, “Ten bucks if you run him over.”
“Oh, sweetie, I’ll do it for free,” Alex whispered back. “Still clinging?”
“Like bubblegum to hair,” I said.
“Asshole,” Alex grumbled under her breath.
Just beyond Tad, standing taller, wider, and oh-my-God-does-he-look-sexy… I saw Henry.
“Shoot,” I whispered. “I have to text someone really quick.”
“Please tell me it’s not Tad,” Alex said. “Please tell me it’s that seven-foot hunk of sex that you showed up with…”
I looked at Alex, my eyes wide.
There was a ninety-nine percent chance Travis was in his own world right now in the back seat, not listening to a thing.
Alex smiled.
I felt heat touch my cheeks.
I looked down.
I casually grabbed my phone so I could text Henry.
Nothing like a small town after-funeral gathering.
They were always held in a fire hall for some reason.
I guess because there was room?
Not a clue at all.
I also didn’t realize or know why these men and women knew my grandfather so well.
They laughed and joked about his stubbornness.
I even heard a story from a very long time ago that there was a cat stuck in a tree. Literally. The most cliché thing for a fireman to deal with, right?
And my grandfather climbed the tree himself to save the cat.
The firemen were yelling at him to climb down and not to be an idiot and all that.
But there was my grandfather, scaling the tree, grabbing the cat, and bringing it back down to safety.
Part of me couldn’t imagine it. Yet part of me could…
For as tough and mean as my grandfather was, he had a heart.
