Tell-Tail Sign by Tiffany Andrea

Author:Tiffany Andrea [Tiffany Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Burden of Proofreading Publishing
Published: 2023-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

Stay Frosty

Boyd

I’m more nervous to knock on her door now than I was on our first date. My knuckles graze the door and make a faint sound. No answer. That only serves to increase my heart rate. I knock again, louder this time.

“One second!” Sophie shouts from inside. She sounds panicked.

Crank up the speed of my heart a little more.

My foot taps on the concrete stoop of its own accord as I wait. At least sixty seconds pass before Sophie comes to the door. She pulls it open wide, and she looks like she’s been caught in a deluge. She’s sopping wet, with her drenched hair matted to her head. “Help.”

I duck inside and close the door behind me. “What happened?”

“Shower…” She makes an exploding sound and a matching gesture with both hands.

“Utility closet?”

She points to a door beside the kitchen, so I run in and find her small furnace, washer and dryer, and fuse panel. I search along the water pipes to find the shut-off valve. The sound on the other side of the wall eases and stops by the time I walk through her bedroom, into the ensuite. Her bathroom is soaked from top to bottom, with water pouring out onto the hardwood in her bedroom. The stand-up shower only has a door covering half of its width, so there was no chance of containing the spray.

“How did this happen?” I try not to chuckle at Sophie when she walks into the room behind me, looking defeated. Even Wilson is wet, but he looks thrilled. I bend down to give him a scratch behind the ear and he responds by doubling the speed of his wagging tail. “Hey, buddy.”

“I called the super to fix the issue with my water pressure. He came and told me it was just my shower head, but that’s not his job to change it. Direct quote: ‘It’s not a building problem; it’s a you problem.’” She mimics the super’s voice, making it even harder not to laugh. “I looked online, watched a few tutorials, and felt confident I could handle it. Pete the Plumber’s YouTube channel made it look easy, so I followed along and all was fine. But the problem was not my shower head. I turned it on to get ready, but a surge of water blew off the shower head and well… all hell broke loose.”

There’s no stopping my laugh now. She looks incensed over the situation, and I can’t blame her, but the way she explains it is hilarious. “Pete the Plumber? Why didn’t you call an actual plumber?”

She places both hands on her hips, drawing my attention to how her dripping wet tank top and yoga pants cling to her curves. “I’ll have you know, I’m capable of doing things on my own. This was not my fault.”

I straighten my expression to match her serious one. “No doubt it wasn’t. Why don’t we get what we can cleaned up, then I’ll take a look at it?”

The tentative smile she offers sends mixed signals.

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