Be My Neat-Heart by Baer Judy

Author:Baer, Judy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2006-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

I escaped to my room after our silent, uncomfortable meal. I needed to think. Why had Molly sent Jared here? The man fired her—she should have been furious with him. She wasn’t rational, thinking Jared and I could become friends. Poor Molly is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She’s a French fry short of an order, a crayon short of a box. That had to be it, she was suffering an emotional collapse. Friends? Jared and me? When lions lie down with lambs, maybe.

More determined than ever not to let Jared’s presence ruin my good time and vowing to encourage Molly to see a physician when I got home, I put on shorts and a T-shirt, grabbed my swimsuit, flip-flops and fluffy robe and headed for the spa treatment area.

The treatment area is as elegant as the public areas in the spa. The tiles on the floor run down the halls to treatment rooms and halfway up the walls. They are large, thick, earthy looking and warm to the touch, signaling that they are heated from beneath. I gave my name to the woman at the large round desk. She looked on her list, nodded and gestured toward overstuffed sofas nearby to wait my turn.

I sat down and lay back against the cushions with my eyes closed. Ecstasy! I didn’t have to worry about another thing—including making decisions—until I returned home. Then raised, anxious voices intruded upon my reverie. It was workmen and spa employees in conversation.

“What do you mean, there’s no water on the other side? There has to be water We can’t run a spa without water!”

“Sorry, but a pipe has broken under the floor in the men’s whirlpool area. We turned off all the water to that area. Plumbers are coming but we’re going to have to do some excavating to find exactly where the leak is. That means ripping up the tile, fixing the break, laying a new subfloor and retiling.”

“How long is this supposed to take?” It sounded like Olga speaking.

“It will take as long as it takes. Don’t plan on using the men’s side of the spa until noon tomorrow at the very earliest.”

“Are you out of your mind? Do you know how much people pay to stay here? We can’t tell them ‘Sorry, we’re closed,’ just like that.”

“The women’s spa is plenty big. Don’t you have spare rooms over here?”

“The men’s and women’s spas are separate for a reason. Privacy.”

“Before you added on, wasn’t that area used for everyone?”

“Yes, but we had a dividing wall in place then.”

“So put up another one. Close off some of the rooms so they can be used by the men.”

There was a long silence. “It wouldn’t be my first choice, but it might work. Most of our guests are ladies this weekend since most of the gentlemen are out on the golf course during the day. There are some facilities that could be shared, I suppose.”

“We can make a wall, but we can’t prevent sound from crossing back and forth.

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