You idiot, I told myself, you overdid it. Samantha didn’t seem to think so. She accepted the coffee with a big smile and said, “Thank you, Jerry, ...a woman likes to be treated special.” She patted the seat next to her. “Sit here, we can talk easier.” Amazed at my luck and telling myself not to blow it, I obeyed, sitting next to her, but not touching. No way was I going to risk acting forward. “Um, I wondered what major you might take.” I figured resuming what we’d talked about before was a good. You work all day at it, we’ll share other jobs as if we were both going out to work. Understand?’ ‘But–’ ‘No buts, Get started tomorrow. By the end of the week you should be clearer what you need to concentrate on. Look, from next week I’ll be fending for myself, and that’s nothing new, you know. What are you going to do for money? Is your Dad funding everything, or do you want an allowance from me?’ ‘We opened an account and he’s paying into it every month. It’s enough to live on, and that’s. ’ I turned to face her as well. ‘Me too. I don’t know what came over me. I hope you’ll forgive my rudeness. I was way out of line.’ Her lips turned up in a poor imitation of a smile. ‘Of course. It was all just a small misunderstanding.’ She took a deep drink from her glass, and put it back down. ‘I know it’s my fault. I started with the whole sunbathing nude, and putting lotion on. It’s easy enough to jump to conclusions from there. But I’m not like that, you must know. I see how you look at. We all ate together while watched a Fred Astaire movie on the living room, something to cheer my grandma up. As the movie reached to it’s end, I decided to go to bed, giving my grandmother a kiss on her cheek. When I turned to my grandpa, I felt myself blush when our eyes met and leaning forward it kissed him on the cheek, before running upstairs, afraid I was being too obvious to them.Almost an hour later, when I was almost asleep I heard a light knock on my door."Come in." I said turning on.
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