Day One by Lauren Runow

Author:Lauren Runow [Runow, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Day 12

April 7

My phone rings, and the normal excitement I feel is nothing compared to the mindfuck I’m watching on television right now.

“Oh. My. God. Please tell me you can turn on Netflix,” I say to Drew, wasting no time.

“You too?” he says, exasperated knowing what’s to come by the talk of the show that seems to be everywhere.

“Yes, and I’m taking you down with me. This Tiger King show is unreal. Just when I think it can’t get any weirder, I start the next episode, and I was totally wrong! My mind is blown right now.”

“That’s what everyone is saying. I’m not really into watching some crazy guy with a mullet dance around with tigers.”

I slap my hand on the couch. “I thought the same thing! Their marketing for this show is nothing compared to what it is.” I press pause on my screen and sit up straighter, ready to fill him in.

I talk for twenty minutes, telling him all about Carole, who has this cat sanctuary. She’s literally doing the same thing these other two guys are, but she wants the other ones closed down and even has PETA on her side. But then I go on about how one zoo owner, Joe Exotic, has two husbands, and the other zoo owner, Doc, is basically running a harem of wives out of his zoo.

“Wait, what?” he asks, confused and as shocked as I am.

“Right?” I yell into the phone. “But then this Carole chick has a crazy past. Her husband, who was worth millions, suddenly disappeared twenty years ago, and they’ve never found his body. They think she killed him and fed him to the tigers!”

He laughs in disbelief into the phone. “This can’t be real.”

“That’s the crazy part. It totally is! And now, this Joe Exotic guy is in jail because they say he hired someone to kill Carole.”

“Did he?”

“I don’t know! I’m only on episode three. You have to turn it on!”

“Hold on. Let me grab my computer,” he says begrudgingly.

“Well, shoot. I know I filled you in, but you need to start from the top. Are you ready? Do you have water, snacks, everything you need? I promise you’ll be sucked in.”

He chuckles through the line. “I think I’ll be fine.”

I take a deep inhale. “You say that now. But don’t say I didn’t warn you,” I tease and then think of what I just did. “Well, shoot, what am I to do now until you’re caught up, so we can watch it together?”

“How are those runs coming? Is it time to jump back on the bandwagon?”

“Ugh! You would say that. Fine.” I sigh. “The things I do for you,” I say playfully.

“Go get ’em, girl. I’ll be here, learning about your harem and tiger-feeding chick.”

“Don’t worry; you’ll thank me later.”

“Yeah, we’ll see. Have a great run.”

We hang up, and I regretfully close my laptop and head out for a run to pass the time until I can start the show back up.

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