Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen

Author:Brian Olsen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

After an hour of virtual freshman orientation, Alan felt his phone vibrate. He pulled it out, looked at the display and grinned – he had yet to change Pete’s contact name from “Mark’s Testicle Guy.”

Before he could finish saying hello, Pete started talking. “Hey there. How are...you know what? I’m just going to talk for a second, okay? I want to get this out. Geez, I’m nervous. Okay. I know we barely know each other, but, apart from the murder-suicide, I had an awesome weekend. Oh, man, that sounded terrible. That makes me sound heartless. I didn’t even sleep last night, I had terrible nightmares, I kept seeing that woman and I literally woke up screaming. I called Kevin at three in the morning and he came over and I just cried at him for an hour until I passed out, I’m exhausted. I think I’m going to look for a therapist. Wait, sorry, I’m taking this in totally the wrong direction. I was having an awesome time up until you-know-what, and even afterwards it felt really right being with you for the whole rest of the weekend, and I know even that’s a weird thing to say because the rest of the weekend was mostly us either having sex or crying or both, but still. And I don’t think it was just a bond created by the post-traumatic stress because Caitlin was there too and I don’t think her ass is half as hot as yours. No, really, though, I know the whole horrible thing probably made us move too fast, but I told you things I don’t tell anyone, and the stuff you shared with me...all that awfulness with your dad...maybe I’m kidding myself but it seemed like you felt the same way. Or maybe you think I’m a creepy old man. I don’t know. Probably. I’m talking too much. Can you say something now?”

“Make me dinner tonight.”

“Awesome. Yes. I am a terrible cook. I can’t wait to make you dinner. It will mostly be made in the microwave. I can go shopping, it’ll give me something to do until you get here so I don’t punch a wall.”

“Didn’t you go to work?”

“I couldn’t. I don’t know how you guys did it. I’m trying to work from home but Kevin’s still here and he’s trying to convince me to drink.”

Alan heard a distant cry of “Hey jailbait!” through the receiver. “Tell her hi,” he replied. “And don’t drink, I want you sober when I get there.”

“I can’t drink, I’m a lightweight and I have to drive upstate tomorrow to meet with that client.”

“The lawsuit.”

“The lawsuit. Gotta make the world safe for small-time game developers. And I’ve got to do my fair share of the mystery solving. Can’t leave it all to you four intrepid investigators. Are you staying all day? I don’t want to come across as overprotective but I’m kind of losing my shit thinking about you in that place.”

“I thought you didn’t believe in mind control?”

“I don’t.

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