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“It shouldn’t, but not everyone thinks it’s going to happen.”
He went back to work and his mother made the call for him. When no one came back to him, he assumed the customer agreed to the work because it was after lunch when he finally came up for air. He’d felt eyes on him and stood up from leaning in under the hood to see Dopey staring at him.
“What do you want?” he asked his dog.
Dopey barked. “He’s hungry,” his mother said. “Can I feed them for you?”
“Sure,” he said. “I lost track of time. Sorry, buddy. Tell Grandma to give you an extra treat.”
His mother laughed. “One of these days maybe I’ll get a grandchild that doesn’t have four legs.”
One of these days maybe he’d find someone that he could be with.
Avery popped back into his head like she’d been doing all weekend.
He briefly knew her story and how she ended up here and with Josie. He couldn’t imagine having his life change so drastically like that, but they both seemed to have it under control.
If half the people on this island had their shit together like they did, life would be much easier.
He shook his head and went to wash his hands and eat his lunch quickly and get back to work.
When he went to the front, he’d seen Jason up there working on putting tires on the car that failed the inspection. “How is this coming?” he asked.
“Almost done. I don’t think they were happy about it and I’m glad your mother is going to check them out when they come in for it,” Jason said.
“It’s the price of owning a car,” he said. “We all know it. Not much that can be done.”
“I know,” Jason said. “I don’t get it, but not everyone has the money or wants to spend it. I know Sandy.”
“Sandy?” he asked.
“Sandra Mission. It’s her car. We went to school together. This is her car from high school. She’s kind of an airhead.”
The car was about eight years old. This meant that it was pretty new in high school so someone had to have bought it for her most likely.
“Maybe now she’ll pay attention to those things.”
“I doubt it,” Jason said. “She was probably fine with your mom calling her. She’d give me shit I’m sure. I wasn’t her type. You know, the ones she turned her nose up on.”
Yeah, he knew that type well. Those that could do something for a person but were not good enough to be more than of service.
“Then I guess she got what was coming to her by being forced to get her car fixed or not get it back,” he said.
Jason laughed. “I know. I don’t know why I let that stuff bother me. Everyone has to do what makes them happy in life. She was always so mean and miserable to people she didn’t like back then.”
“Life is full of people like that,” he said. “Just push it off.”
“I wish I was more like you. Everything rolls off your back,” Jason said.
Carter shook his head and went back to work. No one ever said they wanted to be like him.
12
Keep Her Head Up
“Mom likes purple and pink,” Josie said.
“She does,” Avery said. They were at the flower shop on Saturday when it opened and were picking up flowers.
