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upstairs would say about my vision.
    I begun by demolishing the shelves and cabinets toward the back and now I’ve moved on to work on the island in the middle of the space.
    She finds me after being dormant upstairs for four hours.
    “Hey, so what have you been up to? In a room this small how could you only have half the space cleared so far?”
    “I’ve been around doing other things too. How did it go up there?”
    “Jeremiah, I feel like you just used me. Anyway, it’s done, the room is cleared, as is the bathroom that attaches. I do believe I won the bet. So I will choose the kitchen which will also include this room.”
    “I’d love to see what you have in store for in here. I was just imagining an island with bar stools in here with shelves and pull out drawers for better organization.”
    “How about we talk about it at the poker game later?” She says. “I will bring my designs to show what I had mapped out, and you get ideas from there. You’re still going to come?”
    “Yeah, I’m coming. I mean I wouldn’t miss an opportunity to hang out with my best friend and my designer at the same poker table.”
    “This will be interesting.” She says.
 
     
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    “I’d like to place a wager on this game, since we’re heads up, If you win, I will let you design my entire house however you want, and if I win, I get to take you out for dinner and dancing. What ya say?”
        “You’re on, I already have the plans, I’ll show them to you later. Good luck Jere.”
        “You too. Lady Luck.”
        We’ve passed our chips back and forth, hand after hand for more than an hour. We both play for keeps. She really knows how to play me, but I wonder if I can fool her.
        My hand shows I have suited king, jack diamonds. The board reads King of hearts, two of diamonds, and King of spades. I immediately know I have three of a kind. Shifting in my seat, and then fidgeting with my chips, I try to stack them, and then proceed to shuffle them, but they end up colliding with each other and fly in all different directions.
        I glance up to her, forgetting to sit and stare at her, because that’s what you do in poker, you stare them down. You try to make them scared to play with you, you want them to call, to take them out, but you don’t want them to end up taking you out instead.
    She hit the nail, dead on, it’s really all a game of skill and luck. There’s really not a right or wrong way to play, as long as you’re smart enough to win. Tricks wont always hold out in your favor either.
    Addie announces, “I’m all in.”
         I have three of kind, kings with two on the board and one in my hand. I know I’ve got her. I can’t imagine what set she’s playing. She’s got me covered in chips, so if I call, and she wins, I’m done. She wins it all. Game Over.
         “I call. What you do have there Lady Luck?”
         “I have a full house. Ladies over kings. Looks like I just took you down.” Oh shit, she’s an even better poker player than me. Her name suits her well. Lady Luck.
         “You sure did. Damn. You played me well. Did you know what I had this whole time?”
         “Yep it’s not hard to read you. You were squirming in your seat and I saw your eyes flash across the board. You were a dead giveaway.”
         “You may have to teach me a thing or two about playing. I thought you had a pair, but not a boat. Damn.”
    Jax and Ryan crowd around me, joining me in the loser’s circle. I lose track of Addie, not knowing where she ran off to. I have unfinished business with her. I’m not backing down now. I still want to take her out, win or lose.
    After the guys move along, I search for her inside and turn up with no such luck I wander outside and find her in the barn checking on the animals.
         “Hey you played a good game in there, maybe someday you could sit down and teach me how this reading people thing