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meet you,” he directed toward Lisa, and then looked at me with a smile. “I’m Derek.”
    I cleared my throat. “Hi, I’m Sadie.”
    “Sadie just moved here from Chicago and is going to start at A&M this fall.” She smiled at me, before looking back at Derek. “We met today at registration.”
    Derek nodded at Lisa and looked at me. “That’s cool. You’ll like it. What’re you majoring in?”
    “Just general for now,” I said as I shrugged. “I still don’t know what I want to do.” I wanted to throw in that I wasn’t being allowed to take the courses I wanted to take, but I kept that to myself as I looked longingly down at my burger. I felt weird just picking it up and eating now that Derek was sitting with us. I didn’t want to start shoving my face with food while he was talking, but it was too good to let it sit there uneaten. So I picked it up and took a bite as Derek continued to talk. To hell with letting meaty goodness go to waste.
    “Well, at least you get a choice in the matter. I feel obligated to major in agriculture,” he said, tapping his index finger on the table.
    “Yeah, but you love it. You’re starting to sound like Landon.” Lisa raised her arm, resting her hand on his back and rubbing up and down. “How was your day at the farm?” she asked him.
    “It was like any other day,” he said, looking at her as a smirk crept up on his face, “except you weren’t there for me to molest on my breaks.”
    “Derek,” she shrieked as she slapped him on the back.
    I sat there and watched the banter. This was the kind of thing I missed. It was the kind of relationship I had with Jason, before things turned sour.
    “Speaking of work,” she said eyeing me, “I was just tellin’ Sadie that she could try to get a job up at the farm, since big tits quit last week.”
    I slapped my hand over my mouth so I wouldn’t spit food everywhere as I laughed. Lisa looked at me with a laugh of her own as Derek sat there and shook his head. I swallowed my food and set my burger down. “Big tits, huh? What a name!”
    “You have no idea, Sadie. The skankage that tries to work at the farm is comical. They have no idea what they’re doing. They dress inappropriately and do whatever they can to check out Landon as he works. It’s quite pathetic.”
    I raised an eyebrow at her. “And this Landon guy,” I paused to take a sip from my coke, “he’s your brother?” I asked Derek.
    He nodded at me as Lisa continued. “I think we’ve been through fifteen new hires in the past five years. None of them last because it’s hot and they don’t like to sweat. But the main reason is they only apply for the job because of Landon. They don’t realize he doesn’t work on that side of the farm. They’re so stupid. But if you really do need a job and you don’t mind the heat, then you’d be perfect. Plus you’d be working with me. It’d be nice to have someone else to talk to. Then I wouldn’t have to endure Marco singing Elvis songs to me all the time,” she said with a sigh.
    If she was trying to convince me, she wasn’t doing a good job. I definitely didn’t want some strange man singing Elvis songs to me either.
    “It’s not that bad,” Derek said with a laugh. “Marco’s just old and loves Elvis. He doesn’t sing to her; he just sings. He just happens to be by her when he does.” He laughed harder when Lisa punched him in the arm. “But seriously, it’s not bad. My mom even provides lunch every day. You should come by tomorrow and check it out. We could use the help. I think Dad would be happy to actually have someone there who will work and not drool over my brother too.” He said the last part rolling his eyes.
    “Yeah, just come by and check it out,” Lisa persisted with both eyebrows raised.
    I let out a short laugh and shook my head with a smile. She reminded me a lot of Erin. “Okay, but I’m not making any promises. I draw the line at horse shit.”
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