Summer Interrupted

"Hey, mister," shouted Nicole McNamara, "she likes you." She pointed to her long-time friend Kassie Lang.

Nate, Nicole's younger brother, shook his head. Nicole was always teasing older men about liking them. At the age of seventeen, Kassie had never had an actual boyfriend.

The man, who was about forty years old, had ridden by their house. Nate had seen him before, but didn't know him.