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Nick picked up the house phone and dialed a number he had memorized. He sat down on the edge of his bed as he listened to the rings. He was about to hang up when he heard his name come loudly through the speaker.
"Nicholas!"
"Hi, Norman. How are you?"
"Good. It's been too cold out lately. I have the heat running all day long."
"Same here, and I've been lighting the fireplace most evenings.
"I used to light mine almost every day but it's been getting to be too much work. What can you do, that's what happens when you get older."
Nick never knew how to respond when Norman commented on his older age, so he just told Norman that he was sorry, which he was. Nick hated that life worked as it did.
"There's nothing to be sorry about. How are you doing, son?" Norman asked.
"Things are good. I had a meeting today with the bank for a loan to purchase a house. It's a little more complicated than I thought. I wanted to buy the house as a first-time home buyer, but the types of houses I would be looking to flip wouldn't be approved with the loan I'm looking at. It looks like I have a little more saving to do."
"Maybe this is something I could help with?" Norman offered without hesitation.
"Oh, that's not why I'm bringing this up," Nick said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable that Norman may have interpreted his phone call completely wrong.
"I know that it isn't why you're sharing this information with me, but maybe I could help."
Nick didn't like accepting help from anyone and most times didn't know who to accept it. He knew how to make it on his own and that's the way he focused on. "Thank you, Norman. Sincerely. But it's alright, I'll figure it out."
There was silence on the other end until Norman said, "Alright. But you let me know if I could give you a hand in any way."
"Thank you," Nick smiled. "So, Norman, aside from the cold, what's new?"
Nick came downstairs after his phone call and found Molly downstairs. She was on the phone and looked upset.
He walked over to her as she was listening to the other end and, with two of his index figures, he lifted the edges of her lips into a smile. She pulled her face back and pretended like she was going to bite his fingers.
"Feisty," he whispered and went to sit next to Sammy who lying across the living room floor, coloring. "Sammers, you know who Molly's talking to?"
She shook her head. "Do you like it?" she asked, holding up the elephant she was coloring.
"Are you kidding me?" Nick took the coloring out of his sister's hand. "This is great. Who's his little friend?" he asked about the brown circle she drew on the elephant's side.
"That's his best friend, Mr. Chip. It's short for Mr. Chipmunk."
"That's sweet. What gave you the idea to make them best friends?"
"Because no one wants to be Max's friend because he's too big and no one wants to be Mr. Chip's friend because he's so small," she explained their sizes with her hands. "So now they can be friends with each other."
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