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    “You going to be okay here with Jake?”  Martha asked as she passed Amber a plate to dry.
    Amber shrugged.  “I’ll have to be. He reckons Tom won’t be back for at least a month and is having his plumbing replaced at the house, so I can’t even ship him off there.”
    “He’s not that bad.” Martha sighed wondering when Amber would actually open her eyes to Jake.  They’d be ideal for each other, if only they could both see it.  “He’s a real sweetie underneath,” she added.
    “Hmm, if you say so.”  Amber leaned against the cupboard and waited for Martha to finish with the dish that the lasagne had been cooked in.  “He just irritates me beyond belief.”
    “Well,” Martha said with a smile.  “You’ll have to get used to him, because he’s going to be your roomy for the next six weeks; well him and Ernie when Valerie drops him back tomorrow.”
    “I don’t know who’s the bigger dog though, Jake or Ernie.”  Amber giggled.  She was thankful that at least Martha’s Jack Russell would be around to take for walks and get her away from Jake.  “Maybe if I ignore Jake he’ll go away,” she said nudging Martha.
    “Huh, I doubt that Amber, the more you ignore him, the more likely he is to want to hang around you.  He’s like an annoying little brother.”
    “Great,” Amber huffed.  “I finally get the sibling that I’ve always wanted.”
    “Yep, you do and he just happens to be Jake Hughes,” Martha chuckled as Amber heaved a heavy sigh.
     
    “So Luke, what is it with that cousin of yours?” Jake asked as he potted the black ball to win their game of pool.  “Why can’t she stand the sight of me?”
    Luke laughed as he placed his pool cue back on the table.  He moved over towards the sofa and as he passed Jake, slapped him on the back.
    “You don’t exactly endear yourself to her do you?  I mean for fuck’s sake Jake, how many women has she actually caught you shagging in the last year?”
    Jake flopped down next to Luke and shook his head.  “Well, a lot I suppose.  But, she should knock.  Anyway, she doesn’t hate Tom and he’s as bad as I am.”
    Luke pondered Jake’s comment and shrugged.  “Maybe it’s because Tom doesn’t take the piss out of her at every opportunity.”
    “I don’t,” Jake snapped back at Luke.  “It’s just banter, the same thing that I do with everybody.”
    “Yeah, but she obviously doesn’t find you as knicker wettingly funny as the rest of us.”  Luke gave Jake a dig in the ribs with his elbow.  “So just knock it off.”
    Jake tutted and shook his head.  It wasn’t as though he laid it on any thicker with Freckles than he did with anyone else.  In fact, she probably got off lightly, because if he was honest with himself, Jake was a little scared of her.  She might look like an angel with her long blonde hair, turned up nose and freckles, but she had a smart mouth and an evil temper most of the time.
    “Anyway,” he said turning back to Luke.  “What’s her story?  She never talks about herself, or what she did before she came here.  If I’ve ever asked she just tells me to mind my own business, but using slightly less friendly phrases.”
    Jake wasn’t being nosey, he was simply interested and trying to make conversation, but Freckles wasn’t giving anything up.
    Luke leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees.  “All I can say is she had a shit time and her last job ended badly.” He turned his head towards Jake.  “Don’t push her on it Jake, because if you upset her I’ll give you another set of black eyes.”
    Luke’s eyes were dark as he glared at Jake.
    “Christ, you Mahoney’s are nasty bastards when you want to be,” Jake cried as he shrank back from Luke’s gaze.
    “I’m just looking out for my cousin.  I promised my Auntie Thelma that she’d be okay here.”  Luke’s eyes softened as he placed a hand on Jake’s shoulder.  “I didn’t mean to