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“Yeah. You just all but knocked down the mailbox at the last house,” Christian said.
“Seriously?” the driver asked. He looked to be early twenties if that, and probably hadn’t had the job long either, unless he was just careless.
“Seriously,” he said.
The driver put the truck in park, got out and walked back to see the damage he’d done. Just then the front door opened to the house and a woman came marching out as if she’d just rolled out of bed.
She had a big baggie T-shirt on, cotton shorts that showed a lot of leg, flip-flops on her feet and her brown hair falling out of a ponytail.
“What the heck,” she all but shouted.
“Sorry,” the driver said. “I didn’t know I did it. This guy saw me.”
When the wind came up he was sure the woman wished she’d put more clothes on and he was positive she wasn’t wearing a bra. Definitely just got out of bed.
“Thanks,” she said, turning to him. Then she stopped. “Christian?”
“Liz?” he asked. This was who bought the house that he’d been coveting for years? One of his old high school girlfriends.
“Yeah,” she said. “What a way to run back into someone you know. Thanks for the catch. Now I’ve got to figure this out or I won’t get mail.”
“The company will replace it,” the driver said. “I’ll just call it in. I’ll take some pictures if you’re okay and they’ll have it repaired next week. I mean it’s Friday and all, so I doubt over the weekend.”
“I can put it back up so you can get your mail,” Christian said.
It wasn’t completely on the ground but at a nice angle that a strong wind would take care of it. The mailbox was dented too, but it’d hold the mail for a few days.
“I can’t ask you to do that,” she said.
“It’s not a problem,” he said. “I’ll just go get a shovel and sledgehammer at the office. It won’t take more than like fifteen minutes to set it.”
“I’ve got them here,” she said.
He lifted an eyebrow. “Even better,” he said.
The driver was back in his truck, on the phone and reporting what he’d done.
“Let me go get them,” she said.
“And maybe put some more clothes on,” he said.
She looked down and could see what he’d noticed, her face flushing. He remembered those nipples well. Hard to forget your first.
“Where did she go?” the driver asked, coming back.
“To get a few things for me to set it back in place for a few days.”
The driver was taking some pictures now. A few minutes later, Liz Sherman came back outside with a sweatshirt on and the bottom half of scrubs. She still had flip-flops on though.
“Sorry again,” the driver said. He handed over a piece of paper. “There is the name of my supervisor. I reported it and took pictures. Someone will be out to replace the post and mailbox like the one you’ve got early next week.”
“Thanks,” she said, taking the paper from him. When the driver was gone, she turned to Christian. “Not that I wanted this to happen, but one less thing I’ve got to replace with my own money.”
He laughed. It was pretty much all he could do after he wanted to roll his tongue back in his mouth.
Liz looked good to him. She’d always been thin in school, but she played a lot of sports. She had a youthful body that went with the activity then.
Now, she had the body of a woman that was in great shape and took care of herself.
