Best Friend for Hire by Mary Mary Carlomagno

Author:Mary Mary Carlomagno [Carlomagno, Mary Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

Most people dread Monday mornings as it signals the end of all the good times had on the weekend. But the opposite has always been true for me; I rarely had a good time on the weekend, especially after spending the weekend in the woods with a group of strangers. That Monday, I was even more eager to get back to work, even though my career choice left my family wondering what had happened to the straightlaced business woman they were so proud of. And I was starting to see their point. My recent choice was not what they had envisioned for me. I had to agree with them on that, at least, as I walked over to my makeshift office on top of an empty bar at seven in the morning. This was not the glamorous career that I had imagined, either. As I let myself in to the downstairs bar entrance for which I now had my own key, I looked around at the soon-to-be-closed bar. The barstools flipped upside down on top of the bar, the drink glasses neatly hung after last call. The place looked all cleaned up and ready to be turned into something else.

All I could think of that morning was my family’s silent disapproval at our last Sunday dinner. It might have helped if they’d yelled at me and forbade me to carry on with this unlikely and unseemly job choice, but they hadn’t. They did worse. They said nothing. The only conversation that took place after my mother’s abrupt departure was getting the elderly family members up to speed on what exactly had transpired at the table.

Nana joined my mother in the speechless category, but managed to utter some indecipherable Italian phrases while she shook her head. My Juicy Couture-wearing grandmother had somehow watched enough of Access Hollywood and MTV to be curious about the tattooed boyfriend she had just heard about.

“Does he look like Steven Tyler?” she asked.

The fact that she knew Steven Tyler at all left me to wonder about the effects of excessive television watching on the elderly. Without knowing what to do, I decided to answer the best I could and not keep the little old lady in suspense.

“Actually, Na, he does look a bit like Steven Tyler. But not as many scarves,” I added.

“Not that many tattoos!” James added, as if coming to my aid, finally.

I assured them that my “boss” was not my new boyfriend, an admission not entirely false, but the denial made me feel like a fourth grader, too embarrassed to reveal her true feelings. In their eyes, I might always appear to be a fourth grader struggling with a schoolgirl crush. I wished that my only problem was dealing with unrequited love, but my problems were much worse.

“I am just using the office space, really. Strictly business until I get my own space to rent. Temporary. No biggie,” I assured them.

James, on the other hand, turned his unfortunate admission to pure gold, as he was prone to do.

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