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That girl...
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That girl... Jacob Winslow thought...
I won’t be long, she said. Maybe an hour, she said.
Here it was, three hours later, and she’s still not home. Sighing, he took another look out of the window. Okay, now it was getting dark. Should he worry? Probably, he shouldn’t. But then, maybe he couldn’t help it.
He took another impatient walk through the quiet rooms. This is what happens, he thought, this is what happens when you say you’ll do a favour for a friend.
Sure, I’ll do it. No problem. Be glad to; now it all sounded like famous last words. It’s your own fault, he told himself. You know that. You only have yourself to blame.
Coffee or beer, he thought, finding himself again in the kitchen. Beer. No, coffee. He poured a cup and carried it through to the front of the house and took up his post by the window again.
That girl.. maybe she’s going to be trouble, he thought, now. When he asked himself what kind of trouble he didn’t know; eighteen year old trouble. It was only ten thirty. maybe it wasn’t really so late after all.
She was cute, though, and he thought cute eighteen year olds could probably cause a whole lot of trouble if they were that way inclined.
Well.. He sipped the coffee and waited. Two weeks since he’d moved in, that left, what, six months less two weeks. He didn’t even want to think about it right then.
Maybe he’d say something to her when she came home. Have a word with her. Ground rules. Maybe, Maybe not. He didn’t want to spoil her fun. He decided he’d give it some more thought.
In the meantime he waited and watched the dark street and listened for the front door.
His glance took in the comfortable, but untidy, living room. Was it messy like that when he moved in? He couldn’t remember. Maybe he’d have a word with her about that as well.
Nothing is ever as straightforward as you think it’ll be. Things escalate, he thought. Stuff happens. You knew all of that and you still said you’d do it. Probably you need your head examined.