Hello everybody, Grey Fool here with a new chapter.
First of all, thank you to those who have reviewed and to my beta, who is helping me stay on track with these characters.
As always, I don't own these characters. They belong to Shoot the Moon.
Last Week: We dropped in on the bad guys.
Please r&r and enjoy the story.
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"Amanda, you must tell me what happened last night."
Amanda looked up from the floor she had been mopping and noticed that Dotty was standing in the kitchen with her hands on her hips. Sighing, Amanda shook her head as she went back to her mopping; "Nothing really took place last night mother."
But Dotty would not be pacified; "Darling, you went to surprise the man you love at his job and nothing happened?"
"Yes mother that is exactly what happened."
Dotty took hold of the mop that was in her daughter's hands in order to force Amanda to look up at her, "Didn't you get romantic with him at all? Amanda, Dean is the catch of a lifetime; when are you going to start reeling him in?"
Amanda let go of the mop and threw up her hands in frustration; "Mother, I've only been divorced for a year and only been dating Dean for a couple of months. I would like some more time. Besides, I have the boys to think about."
"So if nothing happened last night, what was the big rushing around this morning? Amanda, you were only gone for about thirty minutes. There is no way anything romantic could have happened. And if you are having an affair, Missy…"
"Mother! Can please just leave it alone? I had to go down to the police station to bail someone out of a jam."
Dotty gasped, "Amanda…please tell me Dean was not the one who got arrested. Oh I can't believe it. Who would you know that would go and get themselves arrested?"
Amanda stopped mopping for a moment and looked at her mother, "Mother, it was not Dean who got thrown in jail last night. I ended up missing an important umm…meeting last night…at my club…and some of the girls got arrested last night. So I had to go and bail them out.
Crossing her arms, Dotty glared at her and crossed her arms, "Darling, are you sure this club is right for you if they are getting themselves arrested?"
Amanda just gave her mother a nervous smile.
After a few minutes of staring at each other, Dotty left the kitchen and Amanda went back to cleaning the kitchen so that she could move on with her other chores.
Amanda sighed as she finished her moping. While she had been able to cover up her outburst with her mother just now, it just added on to the beginnings of a horrible day.
After not being able to sleep because of her dreams of being chased by the men from the night of John's murder and having the faces morph into Dean's face, she received a call at six am from Mr. Melrose asking her to bail Lee out of jail. While she had been thrilled to help Lee out and had hoped to discover what he was doing at the weather bureau last night, Amanda had almost panicked when she overheard the officer's voice from that night. And while she had wanted to wait for Lee, Amanda was afraid what Lee would think of her if people told him she reported a crime that never happened. She did not want Lee to start mistrusting her; not when she was just starting to enjoy her job at the agency.
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she went to ring the mop of excess water when the phone decided to ring.
Muttering under her breath, Amanda went and picked up the phone, "Hello?"
Dean's voice boomed in her ear, "Amanda honey, how are you Darling?"
Amanda rubbed her forehead as she responded, "I'm just fine Dean. Is there something you want?"
"Oh I just thought I would call and let you know that I've got the day off and was going to pick you up around 1-ish so that we can go out for a picnic lunch."
"Dean that is really sweet of you, but I'm really busy here and…"
Dean interrupted Amanda before she could continue; "Don't worry Amanda honey; your mother can take over for you. Now go and get yourself cleaned up and I'll be over shortly."
"But…" Amanda ended up staring at the phone when she heard the dial tone. Hanging the phone up, she turned towards her mother who happened to be standing right beside her at that moment; "Mother is there any way you can take over the house duties for today?
Dotty nodded; "I can, but why?"
"Apparently Dean wants to take me out for a picnic."
Dotty squealed in excitement and clapped her hands; "A picnic, oh how wonderful Darling. See? And you didn't think surprising him last night wouldn't amount to anything. Well hurry up Missy; let's go get you cleaned up. Oh this is so exciting."
Amanda just stared at her mother as Dotty disappeared up the stairs and mumbled, "Excitement…just what I needed. Now all this day needs to have is danger and intrigue and I'll be all set."
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I know not a lot of action in this chapter. But I promise we are getting there.
until next week, please r&r and have a wonderful day.
Next time on Scarecrow and Mrs King: Weathering Revenge: He never realized that another car had pulled away at the same time and stayed on his tail.
