Tay walked with Maddie and Dana Sue to the spa and when they got their they found Helen on the phone standing front of a huge tree that had fallen from the storm they had the night before.
"Oh, what in Sam Hill." Dana Sue muttered as they walked up.
"It was only a matter of time." Helen said after she got off the phone.
"What they say about getting this mess out of here?" Dana Sue asked.
"Oh, they cannot anticipate tree's are down all over town, they've got electric shortages and flooding. Municipal services are completely overwhelmed." Helen told them before she looked over at Tay and pulled her into a hug, "How have you been, sweetheart?" She asked.
"Better." Tay welcomed her hug.
"I'm pretty sure Ronnie's chainsaw still in the garage. So let's get going." Dana Sue said walking away.
"She gonna chainsaw it?" Maddie questioned
"Who's gonna chainsaw it?"
"I'm not chain sawing. This couldn't killed someone." Maddie chuckled.
"My lord!" Ryan, Helen's high school sweatheart who had had come into town recently, walked over to them with two coffees and gave Helen one and drank one himself.
"Ryan! What're you doing here?" Helen asked giving him a hug and kiss.
"Flew in this morning. Surprise. Hey, Maddie, Tay." Ryan said, his job consisted of him having to travel.
"Thank you." Helen smiled at him.
"Figured you might want an escort to the grand opening, but it looks like you might need more than that." Ryan said looking around at the tree on the ground.
"Aunt Dana Sue just went to get Uncle Ronnie's old chain saw." Tay said pointing in the direction Dana Sue just walked away in.
"I can help with that." Ryan said smiling at Tay. Ryan adored Tay. She always had him laughing at the sassiness she would give everyone.
"Okay." They all smiled
"How's baseball going, Tay?" Ryan asked
"Good, I mean, can't do much with a broken arm, but I get it off next week. I did recently start leraning how to catch and throw with my left arm though. Cal's, my coach, has been helping me a lot, and once I get this off, I've got physical therapy then all goes back to normal, but I was thinking about keeping up on working with my left hand just as much as my right." Tay explained it all to him as he nodded along.
"That sounds awesome! How'd you break your arm again?" Ryan asked pointing at her arm.
"At the start of the season, you know the mayor and his wife? Their son, Jackson, plays with us and he tripped me at practice and I fell right on my arm." Tay thought back to the memory. Before Dana Sue walked back up to them with the chain saw.
Ryan sawed all of the tree up into carriable pieces while Tay, Maddie, Helen, and Dana Sue all picked up leaves and branch's. Then Dana Sue got all the food from the frigdes inside and took them to her kitchen cause the power went out at the spa and they didn't want to the food to go by. After all was finished, for the most part, Petey, the inspector, came by to look at the spa.
"Looks like everything is up to code. Cute little venture you have on your hands here." Petey said looking around.
"So you'll sign it off?" Helen asked hopeful.
"Just as soon as you clear the rest of the equipment and the rest of that tree." He said pointing around the room and outside.
"Okay." Maddie said
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Sweet magnolias
FanfictionTy has a twin sister named Taylor but everyone calls her Tay. Ty and Tay are quit alike. But are also different in many ways. Tay likes Jackson but also sticks up for her brother. She also knows that Ty would kill her if she every dated Jackson. Tay...
