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saw the same man that had been staring at her in town the day before.
    Her breath caught in her chest at just how gorgeous he was. His black hair was tousled around like he had been running his fingers through it. His eyes were so blue she could hardly look away from them. Before she could say anything, "Analeigh this is my brother Jaxon. Jaxon this is Analeigh." Mercedes was very pleased with herself as she made the introductions.
So the God had a name Analeigh thought as she greeted him.
    "Hello its nice to meet you Analeigh." Jaxon said softly. There was a small silence before Mercedes said "So we are here to help you. Jaxon brought his push mower because we didn’t know if you had one or not."
"Yeah there’s one in the shed out back but its really old and most likely doesn’t work." Analeigh said.
"That’s fine" Jaxon said still looking at her.
"Come on Analeigh, show me what you need help with and we will let Jaxon get to work." Mercedes said with a big knowing smile as she took Analeigh by the arm and they walked around to the back of the house.
    Analeigh took Mercedes into the house. They walked into the dim living room. It smelled like dust and stale air.
"If you wouldn't mind helping me to remove all of the sheets from the furniture and then maybe we can move the light stuff onto the patio, so it can be washed down.”
"OK, no problem." As they worked Analeigh said casually, "I would have never guessed that he was your brother, you guys look nothing alike."
"Oh I know, everybody says that." Mercedes fluffed off the comment.
"Listen I really appreciate both of you helping like this."
"Well we are glad to do it, really." Mercedes smiled.
"We can just pile the sheets up in the corner for right now, they will have to be thrown away they are so old. Like everything here." Analeigh said.
"Why didn't you guys come back years ago to work on the house?"
"Its really strange but my grandmother wanted me to be the one to come here, she said the experience was part of my inheritance. But you know I really don’t mind. My grandmother was a wonderful person, and being here makes me feel so close to her. Plus once I start digging around a little, who knows what I might find. Its fun ya know?" Analeigh told her.
"No I completely understand, we lost our parents when I was fifteen and Jaxon was seventeen. That’s why we have stayed in this town, all our memories of them are here." Mercedes said sadly.
"Oh I'm so sorry." Analeigh said quietly.
"Its OK, it was along time ago." Mercedes told her.
"So Jaxon has been taking care of you since?" Analeigh asked.
"Oh yeah, some of our relatives wanted to take me in but Jaxon wouldn’t have it. Our parents left us some money so it hasn’t been so hard on us, plus the people in this town are so nice to us." Mercedes answered her.
"That’s really amazing. Most families that go through a tragedy like that, normally the younger kids get lost in the system." Analeigh said softly.
"Oh I know I'm really lucky to have Jaxon, he has turned out to be a good man."
Analeigh and Mercedes started to remove the smaller furniture from the house and onto the back patio.
"Some of this stuff is in really good condition." Mercedes commented.
"I know, I'm not sure of what I'm going to keep and what I'm not. My main goal right now is to clean everything." Analeigh said as she looked around the dark room.
When Analeigh and Mercedes finished their task, Analeigh went and filled a small bucket with warm water and soap and got two wash rags. She handed one to Mercedes, this was work she could do herself but she really liked the company and Mercedes didn’t seem to mind. They started scrubbing down the end tables and coffee table. They also had to wash five antique plant stands and a sofa table.
    As Analeigh was washing one end table she caught Jaxon pushing his mower out of the corner of her eye, he had taken off his shirt. Even hot and sweaty, he was still gorgeous, she thought as she noticed his rippled abs