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nodded somberly. “We have to. Our
commune closed down.”
    “We are not becoming carnies.” Raj
informed her definitely. “We did that right after high school, remember?”
    Lexi tilted her head as the blond man
watched her with a bemused half smile. “Oh, yeah. It
was not as glamorous as I thought it would be.”
    The blond man smiled at her. “Well,
good luck to you.”
    “JT, what it
taking so long? I’m getting a heat rash.” An elderly woman shouted from two
tables over.
    “Sorry, that’s my Aunt Althea.” JT gave
Lexi an apologetic smile as he turned back to his aunt. “I’m coming; I was just
getting you a chair to replace your wobbly one.”
    “Don’t bother. We need to move into the
shade. I swear this table is in the middle of the street.” Althea fanned
herself dramatically.
    “Sorry,” JT smiled down at Lexi. “I
guess I won’t need this.” He put the chair back down.
    “Why don’t you join us?” Lexi pointed
to the awning they were sitting under. “We’re in the shade.”  
    “I really couldn’t…”
    “You heard the girl,” Althea demanded.
“Do you expect me to move over there myself? It would be just like you to let a
defenseless old blind woman to stumble her way out of the boiling sun.”
    “You’re as defenseless as a tank,” JT
muttered under his breath. Lexi laughed as he went back to collect his elderly
aunt.
    “You think he’s gay?” Lexi asked Raj,
her eyes lighting up. “I mean, he’s spending the day with his auntie for Christ’s
sakes. Times like this, I’m glad my best friend is a gay man. If he’s straight,
I’m calling dibs. If he’s gay, then he’s all yours, but we both get to look at
him.” Lexi gave the blond man a once over while his back was to them. “I mean
yum, right?”
    “Lexi, that’s…” Raj didn’t get a chance
to respond before JT was arranging his aunt in a chair and pulling a seat up
next to Lexi.   Lexi had a moment of
indecision when they were making introductions. Her show was syndicated in
several states, but she didn’t think she had a following in Texas. She relaxed and placed her hand in
his.
    “I’m Le .. Ow !” Lexi jumped back when Raj kicked her under the
table.
    Raj was focused on JT instead. “She’s
Alex, I’m Ra..adford ?” From
across the table, Lexi snorted.
    “Radford?” she mouthed at him as JT
turned to order. He shrugged helplessly. For some reason, Raj was really
nervous around JT and his aunt. She didn’t understand why. JT could hardly be
one of her listeners. He was way too conservative looking. And the aunt was
blind. She could have said her name was Lexi Logan and he would have just given
her a blank look. She was sure of it.

 
    ***
    “Alex and Radford,” JT turned to study
them. The blond was cute and very young looking. Her most overwhelming feature
was easily her two different colored eyes. She reminded him of a golden
retriever puppy he’d had as a kid. The man with her was a dark skinned, trendy
looking Indian guy, who had women doing double takes on both sides of the street.
“So you’re not going to be carnies?”
    Even the way she responded was puppy
like. Her eyes lit up and she bounced in her seat a little. “No, we’ve done
that one. Bad memories. I snorted a line of tobacco
with the carnies.”
    JT shook his head, slightly lost.
“What?”
    “Well, during set up, we weren’t
allowed to smoke in the tent, so a lot of guys chewed tobacco. Anyway, this one
guy, I forget his name, brought this stuff back called snuff.” Alex shifted in
her seat. “As I like to try new things, I decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately,
I did it wrong.” She shrugged. “I mean the name sounds just like sniff, how the
hell was I supposed to know you’re not supposed to snort it an entire line of
it!”
    Althea choked on her tea a little but
Alex failed to notice her distress.
    “Anyway, after that, I got super
dizzy.”
    “And then she vomited on an elephant,”
Radford reminded