"She stuffed a few more things in her pocketbook while he peeled off theboyish phone case and snapped his phone inside one of her glitterycases. She p...nicked for a minute, searching for her car keys and thenfound them on the bed, yanking Alex?s arm as they hurried down thestairs. When she locked the front door and they scurried to the car, itwas like they had run a marathon, even though all they had done was rundown the driveway."Holy shit, that was crazy," said Alex, taking a breath and. I'm still yawning as I head into work a shortwhile later- something immediately picked up on by my supervisor."Try not to yawn all over the counter," Dean mock-chastises me as I logonto my usual till."Ugh, sorry, didn't sleep much," I reply."'Cause of the heat?" Dean asks."More 'cause of everything that's going on," I sigh. "Moving back toLondon, starting uni... My parents..." Dean rolls his eyes at thisfinal, mumbled bit- he's had to play 'agony aunt' for me several timeswhen I've had parental. That afternoon, they came to a satisfactory agreement, and the chief sent out a guide with Doug and Oil Finder to point out the most readily accessible oil pools. They took some jugs along and picked up samples of oil from five more pools. This was more to impress his hosts than for any other reason, since he had no way to tell which, if any, oil would be superior or inferior. By the time they were through visiting the oil pools they could reach that day, Doug had around 35 gallons of crude oil. .. Oh!“ Stephanie suddenly exclaimed as a new thought obviously popped into her mind. “If you are willing to do this for us, we will up your band’s pay another one-hundred dollars, to four-hundred dollars.“That got everyone’s attention, and only Paul seemed to remain slightly ill-at-ease with this request. I made sure to capture his attention and mouthed to him, “We can do this, my man. Honest, a piece of cake.“ He raised an eyebrow at me and then barely nodded his acceptance of my words.I took.