You've Got Male novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: You've Got Male
Six months later, on the first Sunday in April, the Barnwell Marina smelled of frying onions and cut grass.
I had set the table at the head of the dock, under the live oak that my grandfather planted.
It was made of eleven planks of cedar from the Rosalind's old transom, sanded smooth.
Kellen had built it in three weekends, and then cursed because it wasn't long enough.
He had added a leaf.
Then another.
Now it ran thirty feet down the dock.
A mismatched row of chairs stood on either side.
The paper cloth was already stained with sweet tea.
"Aunt Cass!" a nine-year-old shrieked, running by with a bucket. "Maisie says we can't eat until the pie."
"Maisie lies," I said. "Eat the rolls."
She grabbed four and was gone.
The marina was loud.
Eleven kids from the Saturday clinic chased each other down the gangway in dripping life vests.
Two dock hands argued about whose turn it was to flip the burgers.
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