My brain finally slowed down as I watched a stupid show on Netflix. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up stiff and sore around one and went to bed. I woke up feeling better and had a decent breakfast which I was finishing as Tank drove up.
Tank
It was clear immediately Lucy was unhappy or something. Usually, she was a big morning person, smiling and eager to get to work, but not that morning.
“Hey, Luce, hop in. Let’s head right out and you can pick up your car this evening, OK?”
“Yeah.”
“Everything OK?”
“Yeah.”
“Uh, doesn’t sound like it. What’s up?”
“Nothing.”
“Am I going to get more than one-word answers from you this morning?” I asked her.
“No,” she answered and then started to giggle. I realized what was so funny, once I thought about her one-word answer to my last question.
Still laughing she told me, “Seems I was forbidden to work with you in the nude and when I said it was my job and we’d both agreed to it, Smitty got pissed and dumped me.”
“Dumped you? What the fuck! Dumped you? I can’t believe it.”
“Yeah, I was pretty surprised myself,” she went on more somberly. “But I think this might be good in the long run. We were never meant for each other, you know, long term. So, better now than later.”
“I’m sorry to hear it. If you want to back out of this job…”
“Hell no! I committed to it and I’m good for it. And like I said, better now than later. Let’s forget all about that asshole. You got any extra coffee in the thermos?”
Once inside the gate, we drove to the ‘changing station,’ as I called it, and waited for the delivery. Chad from the lumber yard pulled up a few minutes later. He asked me where to drop things off and I told him we were going to switch things to my truck.
“Why? I can drive it up and offload with the fork lift and save you a ton of time.”
“Uh, yeah, but there’s this little thing about being nude if you go any further.”
“No shit? Hmm. Say, look. If I drive it up there and off load for you, it’ll save me a ton of time and you a lot of back strain. I’ll strip and let’s go.”
It was nice of him to offer and we were able to get things taken care of in no time. I did see him staring at Lucy when she had her back turned. When he finished his offloading, I had to sign a delivery sheet.
As I signed the paper he chuckled “You’re a lucky SOB. You get to look at that all day.”
“Yeah, but it’s all business here, no play.”
“Does Linda know about this?”
Why was everyone worried about Linda? She and I were just friends. Maybe she was letting on what we had was a bit more serious.
“Nope. She’s never been too interested in my work.”
“I bet she’d want to know you’re working naked next to Lucy. Well, gotta go. Enjoy your day,” he smiled.
Lucy
I know Tank was glad to get the supplies delivered to the cabin door. It had saved us a ton of work but I didn’t like Chad. He always leered at me and I could tell he was going overboard staring at me. Once Tank was finished with the paperwork, Chad took off and I sighed in relief.