Then, I pulled myself up into my truck and drove. Finally, after a couple turns, while in my zone, I found myself in front of a building with a sign of "Vincent Plum Bail Bonds" overhead. I decide to go in, but this time I tell myself I'm going to get the job, so I head inside.
The woman at the desk put strategically in front of the inner door had boobs way too big for her body, but I'm not going to comment because I'm just not that rude. (It's really just because I saw the gun peaking out of her purse and I don't know how she would react to me commenting on her enormous boobs.
She spoke kindly to me," Hello, Are you here to bond someone out?"
"Mo Ma'am, I'm actually looking for a job."
"Oh, well then," she turned towards the door and shouted," Vinnie, there's a woman here about a job!" she turned back around and then she smiled up at me.
Vinnie replies a little out of breath, "Tell her to go away!"
The woman looks at me, rolls her eyes, and screams back at him again," Stop playing with the animal and get out here," she waits a beat and finishes, "NOW!"
The door opened up to a messy, weasel like guy (if you could give him that much credit).
After a beat his face split into a grin that just meant something bad for me. Once I got a glimpse of that face I suddenly felt nauseous and was going to go back to my truck when he spoke,"Well hello hot stuff. What do you want?"
"A job"
He turns to the woman," She can have it, but why is she exactly like Ranger except she's female?"
Connie says," I don't know. This is the first time I've seen her." She turns to me," Why do act so quiet, dark?"
"I grew up in a place like that with no parents. I think I turned out pretty well considering I started out on the streets since I was six years old."
"Oh, sweetie how old are you? How did you get here? What is your name?"
"I'm 18, as of yesterday, I drove in my black truck, and you can call me Ally."
After a few quiet minutes Vinnie spoke," I think we should call her hot stuff, because she is HOTT."
"Thank you, but I prefer Ally or Alex. I was wondering," in the middle of my sentence the door opened and a girl who looked to be mid 20's came in covered in what looked like spaghetti, potato salad, and coleslaw ranting on about something with the words skip, Shorty's food, asshole, and stun gun. She suddenly stopped, I guess she noticed I was there.
I asked," What's your name?"
As she pulled some spaghetti out of her hair and flung it towards Vinnie who screamed,"What the HELL!" and ran back into his office she said," Stephanie plum, you?"
"Ally" I stuck out my hand and she shook it without even thinking about her hands (I didn't care I've had one of my owns blood on my hands before) so I can handle a little… potato salad? On my hands. I then asked her," do you want to use my clean up kit; I have it right in my truck outside so it wouldn't be a problem."
"Oh, no I'll be fine, I will just wash up at home."
I still think that she might need it so I asked, "Can you come with me to my truck? I want to show you something."
"Um…ok"
We walked out to my truck as a Black Porsche 911 turbo pulled up to the curb, and at that Steph looked away.
I asked her, "Who is that?"
"Ranger"
"Oh… Here is the kit, I know you said you didn't need it right now, but keep it, because you might need it sometime soon." She nodded do I kept on going, "there is a special brush that has cleaner in it that will get anything out of your hair, no matter what. Though, when you use it you have to refill it with the super remover after using it 3-4 times."
"I can keep it?"
I felt almost like smiling, but I didn't, because the man in black was approaching.
I may have not smiled, but she as hell did I got the biggest smile I've ever seen and she said," Thank you so much!" Then she hugged me, I'm not much on hugging, (I haven't gotten a hug since I was six, the day my parents died) but I hugged her back and it felt so good to feel wanted, needed, seen.
Suddenly she stood straight up, turned around, and then leaned back into me. I don't know what made me do it, but I just put my arms around her. She saw Ranger and then began to relax.
Ranger spoke first," Get away from her Ally." All venom from his mouth, and if words with venom could kill? I'd be six feet under.
"Why would you want that?"
"You can hurt one of my men, and then you could easily hurt her."
"What in god's name gave you the idea I would hurt Stephanie?"
"Babe, get away from her now."
Stephanie returns venom in Rangers direction," What did she do? And to whom?"
A large man walks up and speaks," The names Tank, Steph she grabbed Binkie by the throat and held him on the wall while she threatened him."
I spoke," Tell her the rest."
"What rest? That's all."
" No, Binkie said that my face looked like a truck ran over it multiple times and that the truck was trying to make my face look "reasonable"".
Tank said," No one told me that, because I just told you what I was told was going on."
Ranger steps in," Come on babe. We need to talk."
Steph speaks loud enough for Ranger to stop pulling her away," I don't want to go to with you right now, I want to stay with ally, because it's not her fault your Binkie didn't know when to keep his mouth shut and that he couldn't defend himself."
Ranger in a pained way," Babe."
Steph says," No," then to me she asks," Could you give me a ride to my apartment? My car blew up along with the food thing. Please?"
"Sure"
