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“I’ve been thinking about the presentation,” Destiny said as they watched the video for the third time.

“Okay,” Faith replied. “I’m all ears.”

“The contractor doesn’t have to know we’re two small companies pooling our resources for this bid,” Destiny began. “We’ll be a united front when we do the presentation. There’s no reason to confuse them.”

“Hmm,” Faith murmured. “I get what you mean, but we have to give them a name for our company.”

“What would you think if we did the bid under the name of Fields of Green?” Destiny said tentatively.

A smile grew on Faith’s face. She and Destiny had often talked about starting their own landscaping business together and had thrown out names from time to time. Fields of Green had been Faith’s favorite. “Seriously?” she asked.

“It’s the perfect name,” Destiny said with a smile. “It’s our names, but also our business.”

“You don’t mind that my name is first?”

Destiny scoffed. “No! It’s the perfect name for a landscaping business.”

“You know I always loved that name,” Faith said.

“Let’s do it then,” Destiny said. “We’ll use your address for the bid. The formal contract can have both our companies’ names on it under the ‘doing business as’ tag.”

“My address?”

“We’re here most of the time anyway,” Destiny said. “The contact information will be done by email.”

Faith narrowed her eyes at Destiny. “So the title of the company for all the slides and on the video will be Fields of Green?”

“Yeah, let me show you,” Destiny said excitedly. “I changed a couple of the slides before I came back over.” She hit a button on her computer and turned the screen towards Faith. “What do you think?”

Faith stared at the screen and couldn’t keep the smile from her face. They had planned to join their two companies together and take on this huge project. Could they possibly pull this off?

“You’re not saying anything.”

Faith, still smiling, looked over at Destiny. “We always played around with names for this make-believe company.” She took a deep breath and slowly let it out. “This is beginning to feel real. We’re really doing this.”

Destiny nodded. “It’s all here, Faith. We’ve done it.”

“Oh no,” Faith said, shaking her head. “This is just the beginning. While you’ve been thinking about the business end of things, I’ve been thinking about the actual installation.”

Destiny chuckled. “That’s usually the way we worked.” She smiled. “Tell me.”

Faith sighed and slowly raised one brow. “We each have two teams.”

“Right.”

“We put one of your teams on the rock cairns, one of mine on the fountain,” Faith said. “The other two teams will be on the largest building working together.”

“Okay, what else?”

“We line them out each morning,” Faith explained. “Then we do the maintenance for our other clients. We check in with them during the day and make sure things are on schedule. At the end of the day we let the crews off and we take whatever supplies they need for the next day to the site. We’ll work the overtime.”

“It makes sense,” Destiny said. “We don’t need to be there watching over them the entire time. Besides, we both have other accounts that have to be maintained.” She stared at Faith and smiled. “It’ll be like old times. We’re finally back on the same crew.”

“We always worked better together,” Faith said.

“And got more done than any of the other teams,” Destiny added.

“Do you still remember how to run a mower and a trimmer?” Faith asked with amusement in her voice.

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