Biting Serendipity: April Fools For Love (Biting Love Short Bites Book 4) by Mary Hughes

Author:Mary Hughes [Hughes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: 7th Octave Publishing
Published: 2015-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

It seemed as though my head barely hit the pillow before noise and light woke me. Rattling like two skeletons on a tin roof—using a porn star-size vibrator.

Turned out it was just my phone, set on vibrate for the night. I think I was a bit disappointed.

Slapping a hand around in the dark on the night stand, I finally located the thing. “’Lo?”

“Sera? It’s me. Jenny.”

“Jenny?” I was surprised she’d identified me, ’cause even to me I sounded like a frog. Somewhere in there the thought filtered through, Dummy, why would a frog answer your phone? “What time is it?”

“I don’t know.”

“Oh, wait. I have an alarm clock.” I blinked blurrily at the red LEDs. Numbers resolved into the impossible shape of four effing thirty. I’d had an hour’s sleep.

“I’m in jail.”

“What?” That woke me up like chewing live wires. My brain, suddenly online, spurted the information today was the first, April Fools’ Day. “Is this a joke?”

“I wish it was.” Her voice was dark, filled with unshed tears, and Jenny was not the sort who could fake it. Believe me, I’d seen her in the Meiers Corners Masquers’ production of Mame, and she couldn’t act her way out of an open door.

“How did you end up in jail?”

“Well…you know your mayonnaise-filled donut joke?”

“How did you find out about that?”

“A couple of the patrons you pranked told me. Well, I liked the gag a lot and…well…”

I slapped the phone briefly to my forehead. I knew what was coming, but really didn’t want to be right. “Spit it out.”

“See, I do third shift work at a nursing home, and I thought it’d be so funny to catch a senior O-face. Like Mr. Bacet—poor old guy is so wrinkled he looks like a hound dog. So, I set a box out for anyone wandering around with late night munchies, and I was right, it was really funny with Mr. Bacet, his O-face even funnier because he hadn’t put his dentures in yet…but then old Ms. Becker took a donut, too, and who knew she had an egg allergy, right?”

“You fed mayo to an old woman who’s allergic to eggs?”

“I didn’t know mayonnaise had eggs.”

“Mayonnaise is eggs. Eggs and oil. Is she okay?”

“Yes. Mostly.” She coughed. “She’s just in the hospital—don’t worry, she’s stable. It’s just…I’ve sort of been arrested by Officer Titus for attempted involuntary manslaughter.”

I scrunched my eyes in pain. I’d though Dirk Ruffles had been enthusiastically inept. Apparently, Officer Titus outdid even Dirk. “So, what do you want me to do about it?”

“You’re my one phone call. Can you come get me? Oh, and um, maybe bring bail?”

I banged my head against the pillow, whump, whump. Why didn’t Jenny call legal help? Although, I knew why she hadn’t called her family. Parents in the Corners were meaner than parole officers. You better fly straight and narrow or Bei Gott you won’t sit down for the rest of your life. “I’ll take care of it.”

A quick Internet search netted me the phone number for Meiers Corners’s premier attorney, Julian Emerson.

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