Rendezvous With the Fat Man by Gail Sherman Jones & Jan Leslie Sherman

Author:Gail Sherman Jones & Jan Leslie Sherman [Jones, Gail Sherman & Sherman, Jan Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8 — Sisterhood?? Reconnection??

After returning from her jungle adventure with the Fat Man, Jan settled back into the LA groove. Luckily, it didn’t take long for word to spread among her friends in the Hollywood entertainment scene that she had brought back some dynamite coke. Within one month she sold her entire stash and made enough money to continue supporting her expensive travel lifestyle jaunting around the world for the next several years.

At this time, Jan’s older sister Gail had called her in an attempt to reconnect since they hadn’t seen each other in five years. As kids, they had fought constantly, and the sibling rivalry continued in Jan’s mind well into adulthood. She resented her parents always comparing her to Gail as she was growing up and she never let it go. Gail had hoped that an invitation to stay at her home for a couple days would break the ice and restore their sisterhood, and hopefully they could begin to develop a close, loving relationship.

Jan agreed to fly up to San Francisco on a weekend when Gail was not working as a junior high school Spanish and social studies teacher. Gail was anxious to see her sister and discover if she had mellowed over their years of separation. Most important, she wanted to know if Jan still felt any animosity towards her for being the favored older sister, which was no fault of her own. She hoped her cottage home in Atherton, located on an acre and half pear orchard, would be the perfect environment for their bonding experience.

On a beautiful spring afternoon, Jan arrived at San Francisco International Airport to begin her long, overdue visit with Gail. She carried her suitcase out of the baggage area looking for Gail’s car in the passenger waiting zone, finally spotting it slowly approaching the curb. Jan’s eyes lit up when she saw her sister drive up in a brand new aqua blue, 1978 Datsun 280Z sports car. Gail got out and greeted her with a big hug. Jan tolerated the display of affection, but was clearly more interested in Gail’s car.

“Oh my God! Is this your car?” Jan asked.

“My car is my baby; four speed stick shift and custom chrome Tru-Spoke rims.” She grabbed Jan’s suitcase and put it in the rear hatch area. As Gail drove out of the airport terminal, she turned on the cassette player and popped in a custom recorded Miles Davis cassette tape, prepping the mood for the half hour drive south to Atherton.

“How can you listen to that stuff? Play some R & B at least,” Jan complained. She reached for the cassette player to switch it to an FM stereo radio channel but Gail blocked her hand with her own.

“Don’t you dare change it. You know I’ve always been a jazz aficionado. I’ll play some R & B later. I can’t believe you don’t love this tune ‘Freddie Freeloader.’ It’s hip, intelligent music and grabs my soul,” Gail professed.

Jan glared at her sister.

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