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you’re there, two birds, one stone and all that.”
    She crossed her arms. “Why can’t you just call him?” I gave her a look and with a sigh she walked into the back to grab her purse. Walking back out towards the salon door she gave me a scowl and a quick, “You owe me.”
    I loved that girl!

“Hey, Keeley,” Lewis said with a puzzled look on his face.
    Her eyes flicked to me, trying to assess the situation.
    “Hey, erm…Sam got stuck cutting Nora’s hair and didn’t want to leave you on your own so... here I am.” She threw her arms out and I was sure that I saw a slight look of anticipation on her face but it went as fast as it came.
    “Well that was…nice of her to send you to keep me company.” Lewis stood up and turned around to look at me. “Connor this is Keeley; Keeley, Connor.”
    She gave me a quick nod then went and sat in the booth that Lewis had pointed out for her. “If you’re not busy tomorrow around six, come on over to the garage for a cold one.”
    “Sure…” I nodded. “Hey, did you just say Sam? As in Sammy Reynolds?”
    His eyes widened. “Yeah, Keeley’s her best friend. We were supposed to be checking this place out tonight, it just opened last week.” Just as he finished his sentence the waitress brought over my food, the relief on his face was clear as day. “I’ll leave you to it but I’ll see you tomorrow?” I barely made myself smile before he headed in the direction of his booth.
    Why did it bother me so much that Sammy had moved on? They couldn’t be serious if they didn’t come together, surely? Looking down at my food, I realized I didn’t feel much like eating now so I stood up, slammed a handful of bills down on my table and headed out the door back towards the B&B.
    I stopped short outside the building and took a couple of deep breaths before entering. Mr Holroyd, or Lyle as he kept on insisting I called him, was sitting with his feet up at the front desk reading what looked like an instruction manual. I didn’t feel like talking to anybody right now but there was no way I was getting past without him noticing I was here. The floor was creaky as hell and I wasn’t exactly hard to miss so I made a point of closing the door a little louder than necessary.
    “Mr Holroyd, it’s a pleasure to see you again. How’ve you been?” The old man folded up his manual and stood up offering me his hand.
    “Mac! The pleasure is all mine. Oh, that’s a good firm handshake. I’m better than ever.” I chuckled at him, he was a little eccentric to say the least.
    “Really glad to hear that, Mr Holroyd.”
    Again, he insisted that I called him Lyle and pointed at the manual he was just pouring over. “I can’t for the life of me work this out, now I’m a man of many years on my belt but DIY was never one of my strong points. Could you take a quick look for me and tell me where I’m going wrong?”
    Being my area of expertise, I picked up the manual and flicked through it. “I can do this for you, shouldn’t take me more than a couple of hours.” He shook his head.
    “No, son, that’s not what I was asking.” I laughed.
    “That’s okay, I’ve got nothing better to do all day tomorrow, I may as well make use of my time while I’m here.”
    He patted me on the back. “Well then, you’re stay here’s on us.” I went to protest but he shot me down before I managed to say anything. “No arguing, Mac, it’s the least we can do. Betty’s been on at me to do this for weeks, you’d be saving my sanity.”
    Smiling and saying goodnight, I headed straight for my room to get the early night that I desperately needed.

I was sweeping the floor when the door to the salon crashed open and my mom practically fell inside. Sighing, I went and helped her to a chair.
    “What do you want, Cindy? I told you I was done with you.” Her lip curled up into a snarl before she hiccupped and puked all over the floor right in front of her managing to get it all over her