Connectivity by Cannon Whitney

Author:Cannon, Whitney [Cannon, Whitney]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2018-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

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At breakfast the next morning it was decided that the boys would hang around the house that day and possibly help Jim and Diane with some work-related business if necessary.

Josh had learned at dinner the night before, that Jim and Diane worked together running and managing their own landscape design business called Lasting Landscapes. Jim oversaw several teams of workers that did the heavy lifting, digging, worksite prep, sprinkler installation and such on their jobs while Diane was the planner and coordinator for their business. She worked with Jim to decide on the plants and general layout of the terrain for each job, but it was up to her to make the bids to the customers, organize their files and payments, draw up the designs, plus check the inventory at the nursery they partnered with; Wrightwood’s was owned and operated by Liam’s family.

It turned out that Cory and Liam had known each other long before high school baseball since their families had worked together in business for most of Cory’s life. Liam and Cory had been playing baseball together since they could both wield a bat, and although the families each ran their own businesses neither of the boys had ever worked for their parents before.

Diane mentioned over the apple crisp dessert she’d made that she and Jim had talked and wanted to extend a job offer to Josh and Cory for the summer. Cory’s parents knew they needed to be together and thought if they each wanted some summer work, what better way to make sure they had the same schedule and could be near each other, than to work for the family business. Diane said they’d be doing odd jobs ranging from helping Jim at a job site, to picking up the plants from the nursery, or even going around town to the local hardware stores and posting fliers advertising the business.

Josh and Cory had simply looked at each other and known the other would readily agree. So it was decided that after graduation, the boys would be gainfully employed and wouldn’t have to stress too much about what their immediate future would hold.

They’d fallen asleep last night, after walking Jenny and watching a movie, wrapped in each other's arms and feeling more relaxed and comfortable than they had since the whole Connectivity thing was dumped in their laps.

So with things finally seeming more settled, Josh and Cory simply wanted a day to relax and hang out together.

Josh worked on his letter request to the board of trustees for permission to finish his coursework from home, and Cory read a novel by George Orwell that he knew was their last assigned reading for his English class.

With little else to do, after lunch, they hit the garage again to go over the dresser once more with the fine grit sandpaper.

About twenty minutes into their work, Cory’s phone rang. After a brief conversation, Cory informed Josh that it had been his principal telling him a packet of work would be waiting for him in the office at school and he could come by anytime to pick it up.

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