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school.
     
                  I went to bed early.  For a few moments before I fell asleep, I thought about the possibility of Cooper.  Maybe I could do both.  But I still wasn’t going to talk to him first.
     
     

 
     
Cooper
     
                  I woke up to the sounds of Eric’s truck pulling into the driveway.  I was beginning to think that I was never going to get any sleep around here.  I slapped around the bedside table for my glasses and put them on and walked out the door to the stoop.  Eric had shut the door to his truck and was coming up the stairs already. 
     
                  “Mornin’ Cooper, we’re going to go visit someone today about noon.  I’m gonna get some sleep and then I’ll meet you out by the truck about eleven forty five, ok?”
     
                  “Yeah, that’s fine.” I was still rubbing my face and trying to wake up. 
     
                  “Did you get everything you needed yesterday?”
     
                  “Yeah, I did and T roy is funny as hell.  He had me laughing the whole time.”
     
                  He chuckled and nodded his head like he knew what I was talking about. 
     
                  “ That kid is funny.  Doesn’t have many friends in school though.” He shrugged and started back down the stairs and yelled over his shoulder, “Remember eleven forty five and don’t be late.”
     
                  “Wait, who are we visiting?” I shouted after him, but he was already in the house.
     
                  “I better call Mom.” I told myself.
     
                  I went back ins ide and called Mom before I took a shower and pulled tags off of my new stuff. 
     
                  I finished and looked around with nothing to do.  I decided to go take a walk and see what else was in this town.  I walked down the street that Eric’s house was on and turned the corner .  I looked at the smaller houses around this smaller town.  It was nothing like Charlotte had been.  It was quiet and peaceful and before I came I saw on the internet that there was some kind of haunted plantation here somewhere.  I needed to remember to find that.  It sounded cool.
     
                  I heard laughter before I saw the body that it belonged to.  I had never heard a laugh like that.  It started as a girly giggle and progressed into an all out gut busting laugh.  It was the bes t laugh in the world and my heart knew who was responsible for the sound before my brain did.  It was Remi and now I just had to find out where she was and I needed to know what or who made her laugh like that. 
     
                  I felt like a stalker as I bobbed my head up and around looking for her.  I couldn’t hear her laughing anymore, but now I could hear a woman talking.  I walked a little more and came upon a little house with flower gardens out front and the woman who was talking, her aunt something, was pulling weeds while she talked.  Remi was on her knees, sitting back on her feet facing the aunt listening and giggling to herself.  Every once in a while she would say “No” or “Shut up” but other than that she just listened like she did in church.  Her hair was twisted and piled up on her head and she had a t shirt and shorts on and if I thought she was beautiful in a dress, it was nothing compared to this.  Her gloved hands were dirty and some of her curls were glued to the sides of her face and her forehead with sweat.
     
                  As I stood entranced with her beauty she found something funny and let out another one of those priceless laughs.  I needed to know how to make her laugh like that…like yesterday.
     
                  “Hey Cooper, how are you?”I heard a voice, but my eyes refused to move for a few moments.
     
                  “Hi…um…I’m