Michelle and I spent the next two days together – just hanging out. She introduced me to her father-in-law, Gilbert, who lived across the road from me. He was a very kind man, but at the same time he spoke his mind. I really like that about him. The next day, Matt and Jeff came home, so I didn’t see Michelle. I missed her being here, but her absence gave me the opportunity to work in the yard. I had big plans for the yard. Although the house was a bit small, the yard was huge. It was so big that I wasn’t really sure where it ended. I hopped into my car and headed to the hardware store. There was so much neat stuff there that I went a little overboard. Being in my car, I couldn’t take much of it with me but luckily the store delivered. I set up a time and headed out for home. As soon as I walked in my front door, the phone rang. It was Michelle inviting me over to go swimming. I agreed but told her that I couldn’t stay long as I was expecting a delivery. When I arrived at her house, I found that it wasn’t just Matt and Michelle. A few of their friends were there along with Jeff and Kristin. Michelle introduced me to everyone. "It’s nice to finally meet you.", I told Kristin as I shook her hand. "You too.", she coldly replied as she turned to quickly walk away. I looked at Michelle who said, "See?" We both laughed. "Hey Jade!", Matt called from his place in front of the grill. He was busy cooking hamburgers and hotdogs. I walked over to him, "You guys should have told me it was a cook out. I would have brought something." "It’s okay. We have everything.", he said with a smile, "I hear you’ve been keeping my wife entertained while I was away." "Yeah. We’ve had a good time. We really hit it off.", I said. "I’m glad.", he replied with a smile. It was really hot out, so I took a dip in the pool. I then took a seat by Michelle. We were quickly joined by Jeff and a friend of theirs named Shane. Shane was interrogating me about where I was from and such. I caught myself smiling at Jeff every now and again. So did Michelle. Realizing that I had been there for a while, I turned to Michelle to ask her the time. "Where’d you get that scar on your back?", Shane asked nosily. I stiffened up and turned back around to face he and Jeff. "I was stabbed.", I started but quickly changed the subject, "I really need to be going. The delivery truck should be at my house shortly." Jeff was looking at me with concern. "How’d you get stabbed?", Shane pried. Jeff could sense that his questions made me very uncomfortable, so he intervened, "What are you having delivered?" I smiled as if to thank him, "Some landscaping stuff for the backyard." His eyes lit up. "You said the magic words.", Michelle said, "Jeff loves that sort of stuff." I looked at him. "Yeah, I’ll have to come check it out.", he said with a smile. I returned the smile and stood up to leave. I thanked Matt and Michelle and headed back home to wait for my delivery.
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