“Shut your mouth,” said Tara. “Don’t even joke about that. You know I worked there part-time last summer. It’s like purgatory, only with greeters.”
“You were the hottest cart pusher they ever had,” said Shelly as she waggled her eyebrows.
“I don’t see how that’s rele—” Tara’s words froze in her throat as they turned down the next row of booths. There, a couple of booths down, was a banner that read Tellus Geological Testing and Extraction, Inc, with a logo bearing stylized letters TGTE with a picture of the earth in the center of the G. And beneath the banner was the large man who’d been at her soccer game. Tara gasped. As if he’d heard her over the noise that filled the gym, the man’s head turned toward her and their eyes locked.
“Hey.” Shelly tugged on her sleeve. “Isn’t that the moun
