The girl in question was covered in dirt from her leather boots to her checker patterned shirt. Her hair was a warm reddish brown, her eyes a bright hazel, and her complexion a bit rugged.
"Well I'll be a monkey's uncle with a sweet tea in July, I've got mah-self a little lady." the girl said in a country drawl.
"Monkeys uncle with a sweet tea - wha?" Nat let out.
"Yeah, ah don't know either." the girl replied.
'Well, isn't this just dandy.' Nat thought with a forced smile.
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The next day at school was something else. First, Nat woke up to a huge platter of pancakes with eggs and bacon served with orange juice on a tray in her bed. After she ate and got dress, June strolled up in a neat shirt and spiffy bowtie and somehow had Nat hanging onto her arm as they walked past the jealous gazes of other students. June got the door to her class, June wrote notes for her (even if they kinda looked like a six year old wrote them), even flopped onto a puddle and let Nat walk across her back. And instead of feeling that this was way too pushy, Nat saw this as.... sweet?