New girl?

Scott hears the phone and lets it ring a few times before answering it, still looking at the pictures. Hearing Hope's voice, a smile creases his lips. "Sorry I hadn't called - I was just finishing up a project."

He leans down to switch around a couple pictures, cocking his head again as he studies them. "Lunch? Yeah... yeah, anything but Chinese. You name the place." He'd skipped breakfast, so probably some lunch would be good.

Squinting as his photos, he takes one off the table and rearranges them again, clearly distracted from his phone conversation as he mumbles a few things to himself about the pictures.

"Um, what time and where?"


Axel cocks his head at Ryan, watching her for a moment. Ever since she and Leo had broken up, she just hadn't been the same. Her spark was missing somehow. The other guys hadn't seemed to notice it too much, but Axel had. He didn't know if it was just because she was apart from Leo or if there was more, but it wasn't his business.

"Sometimes change hurts," he muses, still cleaning the tools. "Always figure though that the future is mine to make. How I react to changes paves the way for what will happen next. I get to decide whether the changes result in good or bad." He chuckles. "Call me a control freak."

At the other end of the shop, Miles lifts his head while trying to fix a tire. Had he heard someone. When Darell was gone, sometimes customers had to wander back into the garage to find someone. Craning his neck, he spots a young woman behind the glass door to the front.

"Yo, Jed! Customer!"

Jed had his head in a car and grumbles. "Would you mind?"

"You turnin' down a chick?"

Jed's head pops up, hitting the hood with a bang. "Wha...?"

By now, Leo had heard them and had looked down that way as well. He recognized the visitor and starts to smile. "I got it, boys. You just keep on playing."

He gets a rag to the back of his head, but keeps on walking anyway until he was into the office area. "Well... if it isn't Cassy." He wipes his hands on a rag, but the grease just wouldn't go away. "What's up? Car trouble?"

Back in the garage, Miles quirks an eyebrow at Jed, looking over to Ryan, then to where Leo had gone. New girl? He shrugs and gets back to work.


JT grins and takes a sandwich. "You and your critters."

Bowing his head, he gives a short prayer for the meal and for Gunner - the routine now. At this point, he wanted Gunner released more for Bree's sake than anything. He was watching his niece fade away and it was heart-wrenching.

"I gotta work tonight so I have the afternoon off. Wanna go do something?"


Ryder looks to Thirteen as she comes up to him and smiles. "You think I'd turn down your help? I don't want you to go home either. I'd be too lonely."

"Hey!" Dani retrieves another order. "What are Aerith and I? Chopped liver?"

Ryder turns his head. "Oh, are you still around?"

Dani throws him a smirk then walks away, a grin on her face. She liked working with Carson, but sometimes having Ryder to banter with was a treat.

Ryder winks at Thirteen. "I always want your help. Check on those breadsticks, would you?"