Winter Wonderland: An O'Malley Christmas story (The O'Malleys Book 2) by McLoughney Michelle

Author:McLoughney, Michelle [McLoughney, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

By seven on Friday, Tess had trained her ridiculously fly-away hair into a ponytail, put on her favourite fifties style dress, black with red roses all over it and sparkly ‘wizard of Oz’ red shoes with a four inch heel. Tess felt they gave her the appearance of not being short, she was going for quirky and not too desperate, eventually settling for a bit retro. This was crazy. Why was she going on a date with all this Burke stuff racing around in her head? She was so confused. She felt something. She knew she did, she just didn’t want to even think about going there. They were friends, best friends. The more she thought about him and his wayward erection the hotter she felt! What the hell! I can’t go there.Can I?

She fingered the envelope Annie and Aoife had left on her kitchen counter that contained the pub information and a condom inside. The condom said, ‘Juicy orange flavoured fun’ on the wrapper. Tess gave it a filthy look and threw it in the bin outside her apartment as she made her way up the street, and then doubled back and fished it out, just in case.

“Hey! That’s mine.”

Tess looked behind her and saw Joseph. She closed her eyes and willed him to go away. Joseph was a day patient at the care home Tess volunteered at every Saturday morning, and was a contrary old so and so.

“I see you, stealing from my stuff.”

Tess wave her arms around and spoke in a slow and semi patronising voice.

“Joe, this is a bin, a bin for rubbish, I just accidently threw something in here and now I am getting it back out.”

“They sent you here, didn’t they; to take my chewing gum out of my bin, give it here!” Joe lunged forward and Tess congratulated herself at how quick she had become in avoiding his grip. He was pretty spritely for eighty two.

“No Joe. It’s not chewing gum, it’s a …a... it’s not chewing gum.” Tess was tempted to stamp her foot. I have a date people!

“Liar, give it here,” Joe snarled at her as she turned around. Tess froze as she felt something hit the back of her skirt.

No. No. No. She refused to rise to it. “Did you just spit on my skirt Joseph? You did not just spit on my skirt!”

Joe made a face that Tess assumed resembled her own outraged look.

“Did you just spit on my skirt Joseph?” He replied. He really is becoming an amazing mimic. Tess felt a momentary sense of pride at his progression in that department.

“Fine, here. Gawd, take it.” She handed him the condom and watched as he unwrapped it and popped it in his mouth. He would probably put it to better use than her anyway.

“Hmmmm orangey, I’m watching you. Swiper no swiping, swiper no swiping!”

Tess made a mental note to talk to Angie the matron about limiting all future Dora episodes in Granville retirement home. The home had taken to showing cartoons at certain times of the day to stop the fighting over ‘Dallas’ re-runs.

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