A Little Romance by John Zakour

Author:John Zakour [Zakour, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

Cousin Earl nodded his head. “I gotta admit, now that she’s back to her real self, I’m kind of scared of her…”

Tina looked at me and smiled. “See!”

“Don’t worry, I’ve known of your intimidation factor for a long time!” I replied.

“I liked her better when she was in awe of my wealth,” Cousin Earl said.

“Trust me; Tina never stays in awe long!” I told him.

“Look, when you have Maya as a BFF, you learn to accept amazing things every day!” Tina declared.

I patted her on the back. “Thanks, BFF!”

“No, thank you!” Tina replied.

Cousin Earl teared up a bit. He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket. He wiped his eyes. “That is so sweet…” He collected himself. Straightening his back, he spoke, “Now if you girls don’t mind, I’d like you to leave before I cry.”

“No problem, Cus,” I told him. “I’m convinced you only want to help us!” I added.

“Of course, because by helping you, I help the family and myself!” He paused then whispered to me. “Plus I am a little freaked out by Tina!”

Tina and I left the building fairly satisfied that Cousin Earl was not behind our troubles in the lab. For one thing, he was family. For another, he profited by us profiting.

“I think he’s innocent,” I told Tina as we walked our bikes through the grounds.

“I mean, he’s a big rich businessman, so he’s not totally innocent, that’s part of what I like about him!” Tina said. “But I agree, he is not the one behind our troubles.”

I noticed the security drones were following us very closely. If they could breathe, they would have been breathing down our necks. Turning to the drones, I told them, “Back off bots!”

The drones stopped. They spun towards each other. They beeped at each other…beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, BEEP!

I didn’t like the sound of that.

“They sound angry,” Tina said.

“Yeah ah, drones can’t be angry,” I said. “They are drones; they’re built to do specific tasks.”

“Maybe these drones are built to be angry?” Tina offered.

“Why would Cousin Earl build drones to be angry?” I asked.

“He’s a weird rich guy. You’ve met your grandpa. Right? These guys think different…” Tina said.

“Yes, different but not angry!” I replied.

“Stop, intruders!” the drones ordered.

Tina and I stopped. “We aren’t intruders. We are leaving…” I said.

“Therefore, you admit you did intrude!” the drones said.

Tina nudged me. “I’ll let you handle this…”

“We were invited in. Therefore, we were NOT intruding…” I said slowly.

“You said in, and intruding starts with in. Therefore, we compute just because you were invited in, does not mean you are not intruding!” the drones stated. “According to mythology, vampires must be invited into a house to enter, and they are still intruders…”

“Yes, but that is mythology. We are real,” I replied.

“Since you are real, we detect you are a real threat!” the drones said.

I nudged Tina. I gave her my getting ready to move look. By move, I meant spring into action.

“Look, drones, I don't want to drone on and on about this, but we are no threats…” I said calmly.

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