It's Only Temporary by Jamie Pearson

Author:Jamie Pearson [Pearson, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14.

The following morning I slept late, waking up in time for lunch. I groggily made my way to the bathroom and for once appreciated the arctic blast of water from the shower. Having dressed, I began to consider what to eat when there was a knock on my door opening it I found Alfie still in his suit.

‘Alright mate.’

‘Morning Alfie.’

‘Just back from Louise, nice girl. Listen how about I stand you for some lunch? The pub up the road does a sorted menu if you want?’

‘Well that’s really kind of you Alfie.’

‘Nah, I feel a bit guilty. Anyway let me get cleaned up and I will be down. Oh yeah, got something for you.’

I waited as I heard Alfie moving about upstairs, eventually he reappeared in a pair of jeans and a pressed shirt. He also seemed to have washed his hair.

‘You look smart.’

‘Yeah, shower, shave and a sh…’

‘Yeah, I know the saying!’ I cut in. ‘A shower?’

‘Yep, plumbers finished now. Just got the the tiles still to do.’

How on earth did he manage to do these things, go to pubs and clubs, have his own shower and lord knows what else?

‘Oh yeah this is for you,’ he said holding out a small black bag which at first I mistook for a brief case with a strap. As he passed it to me I could feel the weight inside it.

‘What’s this?’ I asked.

‘It’s me old one, you can have it. For the centre like.’

I unzipped the bag and pulled out a laptop, ‘Alfie! You can’t do this, it must be worth a lot of money?’

‘Nah not really. It’s a few years old and I don’t use it no more. I reckon it’s worth less than last night, like I said I feel a bit guilty.’

I didn’t follow his train of thought at all, ‘Sorry?’

‘Well I could have got you lot in for free last night had I known you were going, how many of you were there?’

‘Five,’ I said. Still not quite believing what I was hearing.

‘Yeah, that’s easy worth more than that laptop. Plus the drinks, easy.’

‘How?’

‘How what?’

‘How could you have gotten us in for free?’

‘Well, it’s my club.’

As we made our way to lunch Alfie explained to me that he in fact owned his flat and was not nor ever had been on benefits. His main trade was as a talent agent with a share in the night club.

‘So the “You could be a Model” saying…..?’

‘Oh yeah, got a few on my books, in fact got one more last night.’

‘Louise?’

‘You got it.’

He treated me to a Sunday roast lunch during which I was still struggling to comprehend what he was telling me. ‘Why do you live here then? Surely you can afford somewhere nicer?’

‘It’s my home mate; can you imagine me in some leafy Surrey cul-de-sac? Nah neither can I, anyway I can keep me ear to the ground so to speak and I regularly find new talent,….like Louise for one.’

‘But I saw you! At the housing office, you had been evicted for having a r.

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