Agatha Bright 5 - Creepy Hollow by Sax Elise

Author:Sax, Elise [Sax, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Women Sleuths, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Contemporary, Comedy, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781005477592
Google: SpuHzwEACAAJ
Publisher: Distributed via Smashwords.
Published: 1901-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

“Today’s soups are tomato, creamy leek, Tuscan white bean, and Irish stew,” I told Eddie.

He had sat at a stacks table with Frances. She gave me another sheepish look, and my suspicious muscles started working again.

“Don’t worry about Frances. She’s been a little upset, lately,” Eddie told me and did a mini-pose in his seat.

“No, I haven’t,” Frances said, and giggled unnaturally.

“Yes, you have, but I don’t know why,” Eddie said. I didn’t know why, either. But I had my suspicions.

Frances did the giggling thing, again, but stopped suddenly. Her face turned red, and she pounded the table hard with her fist. “You don’t know why?” she shrieked. “You don’t know why?” she shrieked, louder. “Does Venmo ring a bell?”

“What’s Venmo?” I asked.

“You don’t know what Venmo is?” Eddie asked me.

Frances pounded the table, again. “Venmo is when you send money to someone. Like when your girlfriend sends you money to pay you back for buying her dinner!”

“Uh-oh,” I heard from another table, and then the entire soup shop fell into an eerie quiet.

“Venmo is what you use when you don’t love your girlfriend!” Frances shrieked.

“Wait a second,” Eddie said. “You’re upset because I expect you to pay your share?”

“When you ask a woman out to dinner, you don’t tell her to Venmo you her share of the tab, including half of the wine. Which I didn’t drink, by the way,” she said to me.

“What about feminism? What about women’s liberation?” Eddie asked, clearly affronted.

“What about charging me for water when I took a shower in your house!” Frances yelled.

Half of the soup shop customers craned their heads to get a better look at the fight, and the other half left. I hadn’t taken their orders, yet, so I stood awkwardly at the table.

“Water is expensive!” Eddie yelled back.

“You only let me use three squares of toilet paper at a time!” Frances yelled.

“You pee a lot,” Eddie commented.

I knew it was the wrong thing to say the second it came out of his mouth. It seemed to ignite a fire under Frances that hadn’t been there before. Her red face seemed to expand with anger, like a balloon blowing up.

“Wait a second,” I said, catching on. “Is this what you’ve been hiding from me?” I asked Frances.

Frances’s face deflated a little. “Yes. I’m sorry, Agatha. I so wanted it to work out. But Venmo, Agatha. Venmo. And toilet paper. And…condoms. I don’t want to get into the condoms.”

Tears stung my eyes, and I was overcome with emotion and relief. I bent down and gave her a big hug. “I’m so sorry you’ve been going through this, and I wasn’t there for you,” I told her. “And the familiar terrorized Amy, so I need to apologize to her, too.”

It was a huge weight off my shoulders to finally realize that my two best friends weren’t X. They weren’t part of some conspiracy, and they were truly my friends. Frances had been hiding a humiliating relationship, and Amy was just a cat lady.

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