Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi

Author:Angela S. Choi
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2011-05-31T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

THIRTEEN

“DON WANTS TO TAKE you crabbing to make up for what happened at dim sum,” my father informed me when I got home from sailing.

The ground peanuts in the dumplings had failed to kill Don properly. He survived despite their best efforts to send him back to Jesus. Stubborn bastard.

“That’s okay, Dad. He really doesn’t have to.”

“But he wants to. He’s such a nice boy.”

“Dad, he’s boring. And I really don’t want to hang out with his entire family again.”

“No, Fiona. It’ll just be you two. And some of his friends.”

And some of his friends. Great. His friends wanted to check out the potential future wife too.

“Tell him no thanks, Dad. I’m not interested.”

“Fiona, don’t be rude. He really feels bad about what happened at lunch. And his father is my friend. The least you can do is to be polite and say yes.”

“Fine. Whatever.”

I agreed because it was easier than arguing with my father. Been there, done that. So not doing it when I had more serious issues to deal with, like the fate of my new boss’ girlfriend. I had pretended to be too full of cosmos and sushi to talk much on our way back from Angel Island. Too tired to do anything but steer us back into South Beach Harbor.

You never get into a fight with the driver when the car is travelling down a dark country road in the middle of a thunderstorm. You never accuse your friend of ruining your life or making you an accomplice to a felony when you are floating alone with him in the middle of the Bay on his sailboat. Unless you want to end up as fresh fish food.

So I waited until I was in the safety of my own bedroom to call Sean.

“Sean, tell me Mei is going to be okay.”

“Sorry, Fi. Can’t do that.”

“Oh God. She was my new boss’ girlfriend. Are you insane?”

“A little, but I like to think of myself merely as colorful.”

“Not funny. Jail, Sean. Life in prison. Have you thought of that?”

“Not going to happen, Fi.”

“And how do you know that, Sean?”

“Didn’t you see Jack’s wedding band?”

“What?”

“Wedding band, Fi. The guy was wearing a wedding band, and Mei sure wasn’t Mrs. Betner.”

“So he was with his mistress. So what?”

“So you think he’s going to drop an underage, drunk, unconscious girl off at the ER? Think of what that would do for his reputation and his marriage.”

“She wasn’t underage, I don’t think. She looked at least eighteen.”

“I meant under the legal drinking age. Think of how that would play out in the papers.”

“Sean, this is serious. Jack will probably report us to the police.”

“No, he won’t. He’ll be held responsible for anything that happens to her. That and he’s probably worth too much to risk his wife finding out. A divorce would kill him.”

“So you think he’s just going to do nothing?”

“Oh, not nothing. I think he’s going to make it all okay.”

“Sean, this is nuts.”

“Not our fault she was drinking. And it was on Jack’s boat, not ours.

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