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If you want to move Faith
in, be my guest.”
    “I don’t want it.” JT responded
immediately but his mind raced. He had always thought she wanted the home, but
apparently, she had just been place holding it. He was expected to move into
the secluded place?   His heart wasn’t in
ranching or ancestral homes. He did not want the Hussner family home.   “If you can’t handle it alone, we can hire a
nurse.”
    “I am not an invalid.” Althea huffed.
“I will not be treated like one.” She turned her sightless eyes in his
direction. “Why can’t you move in with Faith? This is a family home, after all.”
    Family. He was not
ready for family. He hadn’t even considered family. “Althea, it’s not really
the right time for me. I need to be in the city for work. Maybe I could find
someone to stay with you. Not a nurse,” he interrupted before she could
protest. “Like a companion.”
    He could have sworn his aunt smirked
before she nodded in agreement.
    One week later, JT was seated at an
outdoor café with Althea. Despite the heat of Austin in June, Althea was dressed in a heavy,
grey shapeless dress and a large brimmed hat. She spent ten minutes complaining
about the heat before JT interrupted and offered to take her inside. She
declined with a long suffering sigh and he broached the subject of Althea’s
potential companion. He’d interviewed several, but still hadn’t found one that
Althea would agree to.  
    “How about the
Spanish lady? Maria?”
    Althea snorted. “What good is a
companion I can’t understand?”
    “Ok, the guy with the Masters in
Horticulture.”
    Althea was offended. “I am not living
with a strange man.”
    “Fine, who will you live with then?”
His frustration was starting to boil over.
    “I’ll know them when I meet them JT.
For now, just keep interviewing.”
    JT shook his head, knowing that his
aunt was being impossible on purpose. He only hoped eventually he’d find
someone she was satisfied with.

 
    ***

 
    Only two tables away, Lexi was
complaining to Raj about their limited ability to find a place to live.   “I don’t want to do a BSDM commune. Leather
makes me itchy.”
    “They’re the only ones who will take us
on short notice,” Raj said dejectedly. He didn’t mention that it was a gay man’s
commune and he doubted Lexi would be a welcome addition. “Why don’t we just get
an apartment?”
    Lexi let out a deep sigh as she tipped
back in her chair. “Apartments are paperwork and responsibilities. I want to be
free Raj.” Lexi was trying to get something back. It was a feeling she’d had
years before, the lightness of no responsibility, no one depending on her.
Everyday felt like it was filled with opportunities.
    “What happened to Pinchpenny?” Lexi was
referring to the commune organizer they’d lived with 10 years before.   The commune they’d been a part of had been a
throwback to the 60’s style. Modern communes tended to focus on economics, but
Pinchpenny’s commune had been one part family, one part activism. Lexi had been
at more protests and ‘legalize it’ rallies than she could remember.
    “He’s living in his van. Turns out, protesting for legalized weed is not a good idea when
you depend on your illegal weed sales to make a living.”
    “Just as well,” Lexi muttered as she
leaned her head on her hand. “We’re getting too old to be tending pot plants
for a living anyway.”
    “So what now?”
    Lexi was about to answer him when a
blond man appeared at her right side. “Excuse me, would you mind if I took this
chair?”
    “That’s fine,” she informed him
absently. “I know, we could be carnies!”
    “Excuse me?” The blond man was watching
her with confusion.
    “Not you, my friend.” Lexi pointed at
Raj. “It would be really weird if I were inviting you to become a carnie with
me. We just met.”
    The man was now watching her as he held
a dangling chair under his arm. “You’re joining the carnival?”
    Lexi