From the author:
This part is funnier to me than it should be. At my house, "clipboard guy" has come to be slang for anyone going door to door, especially if that person is going to try to sell us something. We've been using the term since back when people actually carried clipboards instead of keeping track digitally. So when Eve gives Nick "a suspicious look," I'm picturing something more like a glare with an eye roll than the curiosity most people will see.
From the book:
Near the end of the hour was someone Tori recognized from somewhere other than church. It was Mr. Tanner’s grandson. She had seen him in the hall before his turn and hoped they could get away with minimal small talk. It wasn’t a good time.“Hey, Tori, right?” He remembered her.
“Hi, um...” she only remembered he was related to Mr. Tanner, not his name.
“Nick,” he supplied.
“I haven’t seen you here before.”
“Yeah, I’m not... A friend talked me into coming. Said there’d be free food, but I haven’t seen anything free.”
“Well, it’s a fundraiser for the church,” she said. “But donations make a lot of it cheap.” She needed to keep the game moving. “Do you know how this works?”
“Yeah. Clipboard guy explained it to me.”
Tori looked to Eve to see if she was ready to time him. She was giving Nick a suspicious look that was likely only partly fueled by him calling her boyfriend clipboard guy. The other part had to do with wondering how he knew Tori. Tori ignored the uncomfortable moment. “Ready?”
Eve nodded and said, “Go!”
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