Struggling With the Afterlife by Ronald Stanley Jr

Author:Ronald Stanley Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-10-15T14:52:14+00:00

Chapter 4

Jenny Goes On A Date

Jenny Parker finally got a date after years of bad luck and abuse from her ex and just duds she’d talked to on Plenty of Fish (though it was free and she’d heard of many success stories from her coworkers and friends , so had decided to give it a shot). This one she’d met on Match - a dating site like Plenty of Fish, but a little bit more pricey(but not as pricy as eHarmony and a little better, she thought).

This was Herman. Herman Maxwell, who claimed to be into real estate.

Happy Herman, she’d thought of him when she’d first met him. He had an oval shaped face, light brown curly hair and dressed very nicely. He always had a bright smile, wide across his face.

Jenny and Happy Herman dated for about 6 months. They went to fine restaurants and Casino’s, talking about their career’s, and past relationships.

It was then that slight red flags were starting to creep in with her.

Happy Herman had claimed she was his first true love, and he had no other relationships before that.

“W-wait - none???,” she teased once.

“And how old are you?”

To which he’d just smiled, flicking his eyelids rapidly.

“I’ve always been reclusive,” he’d said, breaking into a small laugh. But then, very quickly, she thought she’d seen something.

Plaster. His face was made of plaster.. or was it..

Porcelain?

His hands had come up to pay the bill and she saw that yes - they seemed to be made of porcelain.

She was the first.

No others before her.

Oh Jenny, watch it! She heard her friend inside her head exclaim. It was the one that told her about the dating sites - Wendy Perkins.

Something about Herman wasn’t so happy.

After that date, she’d blown him off. The porcelain hands and face only came quickly, then with the blink of an eye, they were gone.

But she saw them. And his story and eyes - everything was too good to be true and fake.

Then the calls came. He left messages wanting to know what he did wrong and if they could make up for it over dinner sometime. The happiness in Herman’s voice was turning to rage. Then, suddenly one night when she finally told him off, with her friend Wendy in the background threatening to report him to her boyfriend who was an FBI agent, the phone calls abruptly stopped.

She’d changed her number just in case.

“He seemed like a nice guy Wendy but who hasn’t had some kind of relationship beforehand? You know?“ She left the part out about the porcelain hands and plastered face. Not to mention his curly blond hair that seemed fake as well.

Then, one night she was out with her friends and saw him again. He was enchanting a similar girl, doing a magic trick with a coin in his hand.

He told the woman he was a magician. He then produced some cards from seemingly out of nowhere and was shuffling them about, enchanting his date, making her laugh. But in that instant, Jenny saw him for what he truly was.

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