Chapter 14: The Date! Continued.

When I pulled out my purse to pay, the waitress said to Jasper "If things don`t work out between you and the pretty lady, here`s my number."

Trudy looked daggers at her. I nearly died trying not to laugh at them. Alfie was hoping for a girl fight.

Trudy said "If you like, I could show you a very spiky stiletto heel, and I will put it up your-"

"OK,babe, enough! Sorry, ma`am, she`s sort of clingy."

Trudy yelled on top pitch (I didn`t have a clue Trudy could yell) "I`M WHAT?"

I said "Ohh, faux pas, monsieur!"

"I said you`re clingy. It`s not a bad thing, it just gets in the way when I`m talking to a waitress."

"Oh, so I`m in the way of your flirting with another woman?!"

I was laughing so hard, I was crying. The whole cafe was staring.

The waitress said "Do you want my email address, too?"

Trudy shrieked "STAY OUT OF THIS, YOU CRAZY BLONDE! CAN`T YOU SEE WE`RE IN A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP CRISIS THAT YOU CAUSED?!"

I fell off my chair laughing.

The poor waitress said "I was only offering. And I`m not the one to blame because you`re crazy and clingy."

Trudy yelled at her. "YOU WHAT?! CRAZY AND CLINGY?!"

"Yeah, you are."

"OH, YOU`RE GOING DOWN, BLONDIE!"

Trudy jumped onto the waitress and started pounding her face in. All the while, she was shrieking at her.

I said "I`ll just leave the cash with one of your...co-workers."

Jasper was trying to pull Trudy off the waitress and getting bashed in the attempt.

I just said "Alfie, help Jasper get Trudes off that poor woman."

He nodded and started trying to pull Trudy off her. I was just watching the whole time. By the time Trudy was pulled off her, the poor woman was purple with bruises and scarlet with blood that was pouring from her nose and mouth. Several of her teeth lay on the floor.

"You`ll pay for this, you crazy witch!"

I stepped in then.

"OK, how much d`you want?"

She gave me a bill. For £600,000.

"I`ll have the lot here, in cash, by tomorrow night. That`s a promise."

"You better come through on it. Your mother is a maniac."

"Oh, she`s not my mum. She`s my housemother at the Deanwill Academy."

"Whatever she is, she`s a dizzy nutter!"

Trudy yelled "SAYS YOU!"

And both guys had to hold her back. She was going to kill her if someone didn`t stop her.

"I`ll be back later and alone."

I helped drag Trudy out. To my surprise, Mara and Jerome stood outside the cafe.

"I called you and you answered but heard Trudy shrieking like an idi... uh...she`s still angry."

"That little flirt...she needs to back off and stay away from us."

Alfie said "I dunno, I might take her...if I didn`t have my Dix."

I said "Want her, take her."

"Cool."

Trudy said "As long as you don`t bring it home, I`m OK with it."

I said "The single life is the better life!"

All five of them gave me looks.

"All entitled to an opinion."

Alfie brought out the blonde waitress, and she said "At least I got a guy."

I smiled and walked off with Jerome, Mara, Trudy and Jasper. Jasper looked like he`d just fought a herd of rhinos. Trudy looked like a killer vampire woman. I couldn`t look at them for laughing. Alfie had taken his new girlfriend off for a romantic stroll around the lake. I didn`t care, it was only a friendly date if we didn`t like it. And that`s how we`re going to phrase it if anyone asks.

Trudy said "Will you really pay her?"

I gave her a Look. Like a Look-Look. A Death Look.

"Yes, of course I am. You battered her and if she doesn`t get her money, she`d be well within her rights to sue you. She wants £600,000."

Trudy and Jasper choked on air.

"How much does she want?!"

"You heard me. £600,000. It`s not that much compared to how much I would have tried to get. £600,000 is the lowest price that woman could ask for."

Trudy said "That`s more than Jasper and I will ever make in our lives! And you think that`s cheap?!"

I nodded. Obviously, because I have five limos on speed dial, and I shop for a new outfit from a high price designer store on the hour, every hour. Anyway, we got back to Anubis and I got the cash from my room. I said

"Back in at least half an hour."

I shot to the Lakeside. The blonde was sat giggling with Alfie. I was OK.

"Hey. Here`s the money."

I handed it to her. She tried counting it. She got lost after £50.

"Don`t worry, it`s all there."

(TIME LAPSE: Three days later.) Trudy, Mara and I were all in the tunnel when I came walking up to us. I came walking up to us?

OK, Dixie is walking up to herself and her friends? You wait. RandomDizzy.