Love Over Moon Street by Saxon Bennett & Layce Gardner

Author:Saxon Bennett & Layce Gardner [Bennett, Saxon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Square Pegs Ink
Published: 2015-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

The Problem with Baking

Cheryl had had a particularly difficult day. She’d spent most of it sewing up gang members who gone at each other with a series of kitchen implements. She was tired. On the drive home she’d thought about child rearing. How was it that a group of twelve-year-olds from a public school could form gangs and have a knife and fork fight over tater tots? There had been much talk over the fact that the children had had knives—butter knives. It was amazing the amount of damage one could do with a butter knife and a fork.

She parked the car and tried to reorient her attitude to one of happy partner and relaxed parent. To this end, she took ten deep breaths. As she got out of the car, she was almost knocked to the ground by Jennifer, who came flying past her, heels clicking on the pavement, her big red purse swinging from side to side so violently that it had almost clipped Cheryl as she passed.

“Hey, what’s up?” Cheryl asked.

Jennifer burst into tears and hopped in her car. She hit one of the blue plastic recycling containers on the way out.

Cheryl shook her head. She hoped small children and the elderly stayed clear of Jennifer because at the moment she was clearly a public safety hazard. On the way to her apartment she met Vibro, who was peeking around the corner at the bottom of the stairs.

“Is she still out there?” Vibro said, looking over Cheryl’s shoulder.

“If you mean Jennifer, no, she’s not, but we might need a new recycling container. She ran ours over and one of the wheels popped off.”

“It’s always about her. Never mind we have to live with the aftermath of not having a recycling bin.” Vibro put her arms akimbo.

“Did you guys have a disagreement or something?”

“We had a doozy. I changed the locks or rather Sparky did, and suffice it to say Jennifer doesn’t have a key. I caught her cheating and threw her out.”

“So you’re done.”

“Yes. I’m done.”

“Good.”

Vibro bit her lip. “She was really mad?”

“Don’t equivocate,” Cheryl said.

“I won’t.”

“Vibro?”

“Yes?”

“This isn’t going to be pretty. If you need any help, you’ll call, right?”

She nodded.

Cheryl heard the door from the parking lot open and Sparky came in. The universe was perhaps conspiring to keep Jennifer out and get Sparky in, she thought, watching Vibro’s face light up.

“Jennifer came and banged on the door and said a lot of nasty things,” Vibro said, her lip quivering.

“It’s okay,” Sparky said. “She got pulled over for running the stop sign on the corner and at the rate things are going she might get cited for resisting arrest.”

This seemed to delight Vibro. “Really? You’re not making it up?”

Sparky held up two fingers. “Girl Scout’s honor.”

Vibro pumped her fist in the air. “Wanna have a Bloody to celebrate the infinite justice of the universe?”

Sparky nodded.

“What is a Bloody?” Cheryl asked, wondering if she wanted to know.

“It’s a Bloody Mary without the alcohol, which makes it merely a Bloody,” Vibro said.

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