Not long after the truck leaves my car in the parking lot, I am waiting on the curb. Zoe got out of the taxi first as it stopped beside me. Zoe pays for the cab, and I help her grab her stuff from the trunk.
“I never knew this place was here,“ She says, looking up at the vast hotel, “kinda creepy, it looks haunted, “ She adds, and I chuckle.
“Anyway, I am so glad to see you again. I have been so excited I barely slept a wink last night,“ Zoe tells me, giving me a hug.
“So, is this everything?“ I ask her looking down at the pram and duffle bag.
“Yep, that’s everything, our life in a bag. Pathetic, isn’t it?“
“No, see that piece of scrap metal,“ I tell her, pointing at my busted wagon. She nods her head.
“That was home sweet home, “ I tell her, and she laughs.
“Seriously, as for baby stuff, don’t even worry about it. Valarie went on a shopping spree. The room is packed with everything, baby. So much so we may have to sleep outside to fit it all in the room,“ I tell her.
“What, really? How long have you known Valarie? “
She asks.
“Met her yesterday. She is lovely. I have never met anyone like her before, “ I tell Zoe, and she smiles just as a green Daihatsu charade pulls up next to us, honking its horn a few times.
“Thanks, bro, “ Macey says, punching her brother in the shoulder and climbing out before tapping the roof.
“Hi, girls, “ Her brother calls out, and we both wave to the stranger.
“Bugger off, Blake, stop hitting on my friends. They aren’t interested, “ Macey scolds her brother as he waves to us. Macey flips him off, and he laughs, driving off down the road.
“Sorry about him. He is a sleaze, so try to stay away from him unless you want another baby,“ Macey chuckles, shaking her head.
hugs us. She had on short shorts and a cut-off shirt showing her belly button, her hair pulled in a bun, and a pair of boots that she said she borrowed from
us when she catches both of us looking at
a dump,“ Macey says as we stand in the parking lot, looking up at the building. The bones were
clean this dump, “
me; it
dump?“ Valarie asks,
Macey goes to say when Valarie
you jumped in that pool over there, you wouldn’t come out
up for the job, I will pay on time, and anything this place needs, let me know, and I will try order it in, but there is a catch, “ She asks, and they
catch?“ Zoe
in over ten years. My mate ruined that shit for me, so if you girls have got any friends that are good with that crap, let me know. If not, we will figure it out ourselves,
the tool belt and tools, electrician, no idea, “ Macey
able to help with that, “
asshole now that he found his mate but doesn’t want her to find out he already has a kid. So I will threaten to tell her; he
find someone else, but I know he will do it,“
you already; you tell
out, I guess,“ I tell everyone,
do you want to do
then we will start the others, one at a time, and list everything as we go, “ Valarie says, and we all agree, heading up to the room. We stack everything in
everything out. Once we were done, we then started ripping
Valarie must answer
rooms got floorboards under the
looked down at the exposed floorboards, in
same you will save a fortune by rubbing them back and staining them, but if
check the others later
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