Her mood had changed, darkened, and the facial features showed it."When? Why wasn't I there?" Jessica asked. Then went right on with, "We stopped havi...g those dinners and no one taught me any of her dishes." Jessica, you know your grandma got too sick and then she died." Couldn't we ... No, I guess not." What? Tell me what you were going to ask." Couldn't we have a big dinner like that?" The four of us?" Jeanie asked."We could invite some friends," Jessica asked, almost hopefully."Jessica,. She wasn’t sure, but it appeared that unlike in the morning, he was stealing glances towards her every now and then. He was looking towards her legs. Initially, she thought that she was imagining things but slowly the glances became more frequent and prolonged. “What is he looking at?”, she thought. There was nothing to see apart from her jeans-clad legs. But he continued his glances.She became increasingly more uncomfortable and tried shifting the position of her legs. She tried sitting. ", "There she goes"by Chris Isaak and "Loney with a broken heart. "But instead of making me feel better like they used to, they were having the opposite effect. "That's it, I'm calling Curly! "I said. I needed someone to talk to, besides I missed him and liked him and Rick didn't seem to care about us lately. And I wanted to see how he was doing and how things were at the ranch.I took the phone into the bedroom, dug out his number tucked away safely somewhere in my purse. "Here it is. "I. "My name is Jeannie. And you are...." she said as she reached out to shake hands."I'm Art, and I'm glad to help out a fellow carpenter!"She laughed and informed me that she was many things, but a carpenter was certainly not one of the things on the list. She said she did want to learn more about home repair and carpentry, and was thankful for my help. She told me where the lumber was and said she'd start some coffee if I wanted any. Naturally, I accepted the offer for coffee, and then was off.