“You too” she replied. “I was wondering if you could help my mother and I…we’re still getting settled and she wants to move some furniture around” the girl explained. “She told me I should go ask the boy next door if we could borrow his muscles” she said blushing.
He blushed as well.
“I know it sounds corny but…well that’s what she asked and….I guess I’m corny sometimes too” she told him with a smile.
Her smile relaxed him. There was something beyond that beautiful red hair, something powerful about this girl. She seemed confident…but nerdy…courageous but bashful…so many things wrapped into one. He felt something else too, a sensation that his feelings were amplified, as if she could sense his awkwardness at the situation, and that feeling, somehow put him at ease.
