David
turned to look at me and his face was a mixture of disgust and
apprehension. I raised my eyebrows at
him in question and he used his head to indicate in the direction of the living
room. I heard Alex introducing himself
to Annie’s boyfriend and Annie giggled again.
Alex came into the kitchen to join David and me.
Using his thumb to point back in the
direction of the living room, Alex asked, “What the hell is that?”
David turned to Alex with a scorned
look. “That is Annie’s new boyfriend Chris. He’s a 36 year old loser who works at the local
flea market as a janitor. He’s not going
to be able to work for the next four to six weeks because of his injury and
he’s already convinced Annie that she should loan him some money to help with
his bills. Annie thinks he’s gorgeous
and believes she is in love with him.
They’ve know each other for a little over twenty-four hours and he’s
convinced her to give him four thousand dollars! Have I done a good job in explaining what that is?”
Alex’s eyebrows shot up and I
dropped my face into my palm and groaned.
I began shaking my head in silent protest. I looked back up at David and he looked like
he was about to explode. I turned to
Alex to ask his opinion.
“So, is he a bad looking guy?”
David let out an insulted gasp.
“Well, if any man in this room should be judging the beauty contest, it should
be me. He’s not a bad looking guy, it’s
just that his personality is obnoxious and he is an obvious mooch. Poor Annie is completely smitten with this
guy and she has no clue that he’s using her.
I mean, what kind of person asks another person to borrow money within
twenty-four hours of meeting them?”
I thought that over for a moment and
then voiced my guess. “A bank customer?”
Alex laughed and David gave him a
pointed glare. “Oh sure, chuckle it up chuckles, but while you’re busy finding
this amusing, we’ve got a serious problem in there. What are we going to do
about this?!”
I crossed my arms over my chest and
huffed out a breath. “Unfortunately, Annie is a grown woman. If she wants to give her money to some guy,
the only thing we can do is suggest against it.
She’s ultimately the one who will make that decision and there’s nothing
we can do to prevent her from making that mistake.”
David shot his head towards me.
“Nothing you can do? Are you kidding
me?! We can lock her in her room, take
shifts watching her, deny her outside communication and internet access, and install
a two way key lock and not give her the key.
There’s plenty we can do. My question is, just how far are we willing
to go to keep her from doing this?”
Alex patted David on the back. “How
will Annie go to work if we have her locked up?”
David put his finger to his mouth to
think about what Alex said and then responded. “I’ll tell them she’s ill. I’ll take over her cases until she comes to
her senses and then she can have them back when she gets over this idiot.” He
gave Alex a thumbs up. “Good attention to detail.” He turned to me. “Paige you
should take some notes from Alex’s good thinking. It might help you out in that investigation career of
yours.”
I uncrossed my arms and pushed
myself up from the counter. “I guess I
need to go in there to see what we are dealing with. Maybe if I can find enough issues with the
way he looks I can appeal to Annie’s superficial side.”
David pointed to the living room. “Go.”
I sighed and turned toward the
living room. “No problem. I’ll just go
in there and take control of this situation.”
I took a few steps towards the room
when I heard a low moan and a high pitched sigh.
Ew.
I turned around. “Um, no.
I’m not going in there.”
Alex tried to suppress a grin while
David acted like he was dry-heaving over the sink; well, at least I think he
was acting. I walked back over to where
they were standing and hopped up to sit on the counter. “Guess we’ll be here for a while.”
David finished hacking up his
hairball, looked up from the sink and stamped his foot. “Oh no, I am not getting stuck in the kitchen
while she gets her dirty going on the living room couch!” David marched into the living room and
cleared his throat loudly. “Excuse me!
Could you two possibly stop licking, and tugging and touching all over
the community seating area? There are other people here, although I can
understand how it would be difficult to know that with your eyes closed and
your tongues shoved down each other’s throats.”
David crossed his arms and forcefully nodded his head. “Now have some
decorum people and stop pretending like you are horny teenagers in the living
room.”
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