The Other Side of the Street by Nicole Thorn & Sarah Hall

Author:Nicole Thorn & Sarah Hall [Thorn, Nicole & Hall, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Hamilton

The next day, we had a bit of luck at the beginning of the lunch rush. One of the food truck’s customer’s spat their food out on the ground, almost choking on a piece of overcooked meat. It took Helen and Stanley almost ten minutes to get them to calm down, and they had to comp them a free meal and offer a certificate so the person could come and get another one at a later date.

While all that had been happening, most of their current customers had left, with more than half of them wandering over to our side of the street. It helped that Jay had on that ridiculous bee suit and Sam kept shouting into his megaphone that we had plenty of delicious, fresh sandwiches.

Helen stood by the food truck glaring at us while we sold to the majority of her customers. She slashed the prices, but no one wanted to wander over to her side again. Not after the fantastic display from the poor choking customer.

After the lunch rush ended, Jay flopped into his folding chair and put his hands on his knees.

“Why don’t you change out of the bee suit?” I asked. “We’re going to be dead another hour or two. There’s no reason for you be stuck in that thing all day. It’s over a hundred today, anyway.”

It said something that Jay didn’t argue. He just nodded and pushed himself off his folding chair. As he wobbled into the RV, I started thinking up things I could tell his parents when he collapsed and I had to take him to the emergency room. Would they believe he had been too stupid to take the costume off during the hottest part of the day?

Somehow, I didn’t think they would be surprised.

I glanced sideways at Sam. “You seem to be trying harder than normal,” I said, stretching my legs out under the table. We had an awning to keep the sunlight off us and Dad had installed misters on the outside of the fan—I hadn’t even known that was possible—so it felt all right at the moment. But I still wanted to sleep. I hadn’t gotten a proper night’s sleep all summer, and it started to weigh me down.

“I choose not to be offended by that,” Sam said, smiling at passing cars in the hopes that they’d stop for a jar or a bag of jerky.

“You shouldn’t be, considering it’s only the truth,” I said, still stretched out.

Sam glowered at me, then shrugged. “Maybe I care about your little business and want to see it succeed.”

“Of course you care,” I said. “I never doubted that you cared. That doesn’t mean that you would put more effort into it than absolutely necessary. And considering that I never ask much of you, I don’t think this is necessary.”

Sam put his hand over his chest. “You wound me.”

“We’re not getting anywhere with this conversation,” I said, planting my feet. “Never mind.”

Sam sighed. “I put a lot of effort into selling stuff before.

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