TITLE: A Day in the Life of a Grim Reaper; Behind the Cloak and Sickle (Part6of30)
AUTHOR: trista
DISCLAIMER: these characters do not belong to me, they belong to MGM, Showtime, the creator of Dead Like me, and the actors who portray them, please don't sue me, not that I have any money or anything you'd want!
RATING: PG-13 (for language, but the kids these days…)
CONTENT: Reggie/Millie friendship, Mason/George romance
SUMMARY: George and Mason deal with everyone's reaction to them getting together. After a little fit Daisy and George start getting along, almost like sisters. Reggie decides to show Millie her tree.
SPOILERS: nothing past "Sunday mornings" to be safe, but more like "My room"
AUTHORS NOTES: This is number six and won't make any sense if you haven't read the first five (starting with the first one named "my first attempt at a dlm fic" the rest are named along the lines of "a day in the life.. Part…) this one is on the happy side, but it ties up some loose ends before we delve into the "a day in the life of a grim reaper, behind the cloak and sickle" alternate universe!! Why did I make the title so long?
DEDICATION: to moonie moon, who's been working me like a slave! Good luck on your test/exam! Hope this is good brain candy haha
I woke up, and wanted to just roll back over and go back to sleep, unfortunately out of the corner of my eye I saw the time. I grumbled.
"Mason," I whispered.
"Uh, five more minutes," he mumbled, turning onto his other side. I kicked him, and he shot up like a dart. "What was that for?"
"We're going to be late."
He looked at the clock. "You're right."
He went into the bathroom, and I got dressed. I was glad that he still had the car, so we drove over to Der Waffle Haus, the only person that was there was Daisy. She was drinking a glass of water, and eating some fruit. We sat down opposite her.
"You didn't come home last night?" I inquired.
She looked up, didn't answer and continued eating. That was odd, Daisy and I had had our differences in the past, but she had never given me the silent treatment before. The waitress came over, and I order an orange juice and pancakes. Mason got a coke, eggs and bacon. A few minutes later Rube showed up, and sat next to Daisy. Roxy showed up shortly after, and pulled up a chair and sat at the head of the table.
"Rube, I don't have time to fuck around today," she said. He handed her a post-it and she returned the chair and was on her way.
"How did the trip go?" Rube asked us.
"Fine," I answered.
"Yeah, it was pretty straight forward, all cults are pretty much the same. The leader wasn't so bad after he realized that we weren't God who was mad at him," Mason explained.
"Those cult leaders are an odd bunch," Rube said.
"That's not all that happened on that little road-trip is it Georgia?" Daisy asked, finally breaking her silence. I blushed. "From what I saw when I walked in last night you and Mason got pretty close."
Rube handed her a post-it, moved out of the way. She took the hint, and left.
"What the hell is she talking about?" he asked, beginning to get angry.
"We haven't DONE anything," Mason explained.
"I don't care what you've done or haven't done, cause with you I know it's just a matter of time."
He shrugged. "You've known me too long."
"What do you have to say for yourself Peanut?"
"Well, you said we couldn't have a lot of interaction with the living," I explained. Not that I really listened to that rule. "You never said that we couldn't have close interactions with other reapers. Besides if there is a rule about it then I wanna see the official reaper rule book to see what I can actually do, cause I'm starting to think that I can't do a whole hell of a lot!"
Rube shrugged. "There is no real rule against, I just don't think it's such a good idea."
"Whatever. It's my afterlife I'm free to make my own choice."
I could tell Rube was pissed off, but he really couldn't do anything about it. He handed us each our post-its and then left. He didn't even eat, he must have been pissed off at us. I've never seen Rube not eat. I also knew that this was not the end of it, and he'd make up some rules or something. Whatever, at least he didn't tell us that we were not allowed to even look at each other ever again. We didn't say very much during breakfast, and then I went to work.
Almost as soon as I sat down, Delores was standing there.
"How did it go, Millie?" she asked.
"Oh, umm, same as any other wake and funeral I've been to," I said, not sure what else to say.
"You made your peace with your aunt?"
"Yeah, I guess it was her time though. Everyone who was close to her was saying that it was probably for the better because she was diagnosed with cancer."
"And you didn't know before hand?"
"Well, my mom had a fight with her when I was kid, and so I didn't speak to her very much. I apologized to her, I just hope it wasn't too late."
"It's never too late, I'm glad your trip was productive. We better get back to work."
I nodded, turned to my computer screen, and began to look busy. The day went by pretty quickly, after work I realized that I really didn't want to deal with Daisy right away, so I decided to go to the park. Sure enough Reggie was there, sitting on a swing. She looked like her head was elsewhere. She jumped out of her skin when I began to talk to her.
"What's up, Reggie?" I asked.
"Oh, not much, I'm glad you're back," she said.
I was half expecting her to hug me. "Have a rough last couple of days?"
"Something like that, my mom is driving me crazy!"
Well she didn't call her Joy, that had to be progress of some sort. "Why?" "Well, as you know I'm back in school, and I had a test the day you left. I don't do well on tests, but she got made at me for getting a "B" I usually get "C's" and "D's" so I was really proud to show her my "B" and she just shrugged it off like it was nothing."
"Maybe there's something else on her mind."
"I thought she'd be happy I was back in school, it kind of makes me want to stop again."
"Well for one thing, you're too young to really drop out of school, and for another well… Was your sister good at school?"
"Yeah, she was super-smart."
"Maybe your mom thinks that you should be doing as well as she did?"
Reggie shrugged. "I try to, but I just can't!"
"Why don't you tell your mom that?"
"Cause she never listens to me."
"Have you ever tried to talk to her?"
"Well, no…"
"Then try, she may surprise you."
"And if she doesn't?"
"I won't get mad at you for not calling her Mom."
"All right then. I want to show you something."
"Where?" I inquired.
"Right near my house."
"And where might that be?" I couldn't believe that I actually remembered to pretend like I didn't know where she lived! I was very proud of myself.
"It's like five minutes from here."
"All right, cause I have to meet someone in a couple of hours."
"Well then you can just look at it, and then you can go do whatever it is you do."
I nodded, and she led me to her tree. It was really hard to pretend like I had never seen it before. But I think I pulled off rather convincingly. I really had no idea what to say about it though.
"So what is this place anyway?" I asked.
"It's where I come to think and be alone, it's my reminder of my sister."
"I see. I'm sorry I really don't know what to say."
"You don't like it?"
"I didn't say that, it's just different, but I don't know I can kind of understand how something like this would help you."
"I like to come here to read, think, do homework, whatever."
"Does your mom know about this place?" I had a feeling that my mother would not like it one little bit.
"Yeah, she does, she hates it, but she lets me keep coming back."
"That's a good thing then." I looked at my watch. "I hate to do this to you, but I have to go. Did you want to meet here from no on?"
"Um, no we'll come here if we want, but I know my mom doesn't know about me going to the park, so we'll keep meeting there."
"All right, see you later Reggie."
"See you tomorrow Millie!"
I found my way to the road, and deiced to walk to where my next appointment was. My sister was one strange kid, but I was glad that I had a second chance to get to know her. After the last couple days taking one soul didn't seem as hard as it sometimes did. I looked at my post-it note to see where I was going. I knew where this one was, it was at a mall that I had been to a couple times when I was alive. I wondered how M. King was going to die at the mall. Since I started this job I began to realize just how many people died a day, and just how little it effected most people. Most of the deaths I dealt with never even made the paper.
I went and I sat down on a bench as close to where whatever was going to happen was going to take place. It was nice not thinking about the whole situation with Mason not that we had resolved it. I was able to focus on doing my impression of a fly on the wall, looking for risk factors. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a graveling climb up the wall, and start playing with a light fixture. The mall was pretty dead, I looked at my watch, and only saw one woman walking remotely close. I stood up, and walked by her. Brushing up to her as I walked by her, and took her soul. Moments later I heard a loud crash. I looked behind me, and sure enough the light fixture had fallen on her. She went on her way immediately, I was glad after yesterday I was glad to have a soul that knew what had happened and just moved on to wherever it was she was going.
I decided to walk home from there, it wasn't that far away. On the way I decided to stop and get a couple of salads, as a peace offering to Daisy, hoping she'd be at the apartment when I got there. I bought a couple of chicken salads of some sort, at a place I had seen her bring stuff home from. When I got there, sure enough she was on the bed going through lines.
"Daisy!" I said trying to get her out of acting mode.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"Brought a peace offering, come join, I'm not eating this alone."
"What did you buy me?" she asked almost like a little kid.
"A salad from that place you seem to like so much."
"With chicken?"
"Yes."
"Oh, Georgia, you're such a good roommate!" She hugged me.
I handed her one of the salads, a fork and a package of dressing, took my own, and we both sat down on the couch to eat them. I flipped through the channels finally landing on some cheesy looking chick-flick that I knew Daisy would like.
"Have you seen this movie?" she asked.
"No."
"Oh, it's wonderful! Just watch it!"
We watched the movie, and ate silently. It wasn't a terrible movie, but certainly not something that I'd normally watch. When it was done I decided that I should probably confront her about her giving me the silent treatment earlier. I'd get very broke very fast if I kept feeding her. Health food stuff isn't cheap, and that's what she tends to eat, she only occasionally treats herself to burgers and fries.
"Why were you so mad at me this morning?"
"Oh, Georgia like I even have to tell you!"
Did I feel stupid. "Uh, I'm a little confused."
"It's about Mason you silly girl."
"But you don't even like him."
"I know. He's a dirty little thing if you ask me."
"So why are you mad me then?"
"It was fun to have him pursue me. I'm going to miss it. I just get a mad sometimes when someone takes away my fun!"
Well at least she admits that she's a selfish head-case. "Okay.."
"I know it doesn't make much sense to you, but when I saw the two of you in that bed I felt like I had lost something. Well two things really."
"Two things?"
"Well I'm going to have to find another silly little puppy to tease, but that's not that hard. But also thought that I was going to loose you as a friend, and a roommate."
"I'm not going to be moving in with him right away, and we haven't been very close friends."
She laughed. "All right so we're more like feuding sisters then friends. But I thought that if we acted like sisters, or friends you would tell before you, well you know."
"Before what?" I asked, almost wanted to laugh.
"Well before you started sleeping with a guy. I have had more experience then you."
"We haven't slept together. Well we've shared a bed two nights now, but we've never done anything!"
"You haven't?"
"Uh, no, actually we haven't really even kissed all that much."
"Really?"
I shrugged. "I don't know, I just don't have the urge to be all over him all the time, you know. At night it's nice to have him near, especially at that farm we were at, and last night it was just easier. He was tired, and I figured since you weren't home you'd get home later and not be too impressed if I gave him the couch, and since sharing a bed with him once wasn't a big deal."
"You can't believe how relived I am! You have to promise me you tell me all the juicy details. I always tell you."
Not that I've ever asked her for it. "I'll tell you as much as you want to here, keep in mind I will be talking about Mason."
"Oh, right." We both laughed. "So have you ever been with a guy?" I blushed. "No, actually, when I was alive I went out of my way to avoid guys."
"Why on earth would you do that, they're so much fun!"
"I really don't know. It was pretty stupid of me."
"A pretty girl like you not having a boyfriend that must have caused them all to talk."
I laughed. "Maybe that's why I did it. I liked people thinking of me like this strange mystery person. It was funny to look at something and wonder what they were really thinking about you."
"I could never do that, I like everyone to like me!"
"I've noticed."
"So what made you decide to change your ways with Mason?"
I thought about it a moment, and answered the only thing I could. "I really don't know. We just started talking, and for a while I was afraid, but he made me feel better, and one thing led to another, and we started acting like more then friend." Daisy laughed. "I hope I find that some day."
"I'm sure you will."
"Oh! This movie is a classic!!"
We both fell silent, and watched another movie together. It was the first time Daisy and I actually talked about anything of substance, and I was glad that we became roommates. Even if she had been dropped on my like an anvil at the beginning, I liked having her around. I also liked that I had someone to go to for advice, especially if the whole thing with Mason become even more serious. About half way through the movie the phone ran. I answered it.
"Hey, Georgie!" I heard a familiar voice.
"Hello Mason, I'm busy watching a movie with Daisy. It'll be done in about an hour if you want to come over after that." "Um, all right."
I hung up the phone, and sat down next to Daisy. "Did I miss anything important?" I asked.
"No, not really. Shh! It's coming to a good part!"
I laughed to myself, and watched the rest of the movie. She was right it was a good part. A few minutes after the movie ended there was a knock at the door. I opened it, and Mason was standing there with a rose.
"Where did you get that?" Daisy asked.
"I bought it, thank you very much!" he said handing it to me. I laughed, and put it in a glass with some water. "Did you want to go for a walk?"
"Yeah, just let me get my coat. I'll be back a little later Daisy."
"Okay, we have to do that again."
"Yes we will."
We went outside.
"Do what again?" Mason inquired.
"We just had a little girls night."
For the first since I was undead, I actually felt like I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. I was glad that for now bad karma seemed to be on vacation, and I could somewhat enjoy the second chance of sort that I got. I just hoped that Rube wouldn't pull out a dusty rule book and tell us that Mason I could not be more then friends.
End
End notes: all right this is probably the last in this time period, next one will be a year to five years in the future, I think… I'm not really sure… tell me what you think should I skip into the future or do a quick last one now where Rube sets out the rules? You tell me! I have a lot of ideas, but if I keep in this time I can't use 'em. Keep the feedback coming it keeps me writing…
AUTHOR: trista
DISCLAIMER: these characters do not belong to me, they belong to MGM, Showtime, the creator of Dead Like me, and the actors who portray them, please don't sue me, not that I have any money or anything you'd want!
RATING: PG-13 (for language, but the kids these days…)
CONTENT: Reggie/Millie friendship, Mason/George romance
SUMMARY: George and Mason deal with everyone's reaction to them getting together. After a little fit Daisy and George start getting along, almost like sisters. Reggie decides to show Millie her tree.
SPOILERS: nothing past "Sunday mornings" to be safe, but more like "My room"
AUTHORS NOTES: This is number six and won't make any sense if you haven't read the first five (starting with the first one named "my first attempt at a dlm fic" the rest are named along the lines of "a day in the life.. Part…) this one is on the happy side, but it ties up some loose ends before we delve into the "a day in the life of a grim reaper, behind the cloak and sickle" alternate universe!! Why did I make the title so long?
DEDICATION: to moonie moon, who's been working me like a slave! Good luck on your test/exam! Hope this is good brain candy haha
I woke up, and wanted to just roll back over and go back to sleep, unfortunately out of the corner of my eye I saw the time. I grumbled.
"Mason," I whispered.
"Uh, five more minutes," he mumbled, turning onto his other side. I kicked him, and he shot up like a dart. "What was that for?"
"We're going to be late."
He looked at the clock. "You're right."
He went into the bathroom, and I got dressed. I was glad that he still had the car, so we drove over to Der Waffle Haus, the only person that was there was Daisy. She was drinking a glass of water, and eating some fruit. We sat down opposite her.
"You didn't come home last night?" I inquired.
She looked up, didn't answer and continued eating. That was odd, Daisy and I had had our differences in the past, but she had never given me the silent treatment before. The waitress came over, and I order an orange juice and pancakes. Mason got a coke, eggs and bacon. A few minutes later Rube showed up, and sat next to Daisy. Roxy showed up shortly after, and pulled up a chair and sat at the head of the table.
"Rube, I don't have time to fuck around today," she said. He handed her a post-it and she returned the chair and was on her way.
"How did the trip go?" Rube asked us.
"Fine," I answered.
"Yeah, it was pretty straight forward, all cults are pretty much the same. The leader wasn't so bad after he realized that we weren't God who was mad at him," Mason explained.
"Those cult leaders are an odd bunch," Rube said.
"That's not all that happened on that little road-trip is it Georgia?" Daisy asked, finally breaking her silence. I blushed. "From what I saw when I walked in last night you and Mason got pretty close."
Rube handed her a post-it, moved out of the way. She took the hint, and left.
"What the hell is she talking about?" he asked, beginning to get angry.
"We haven't DONE anything," Mason explained.
"I don't care what you've done or haven't done, cause with you I know it's just a matter of time."
He shrugged. "You've known me too long."
"What do you have to say for yourself Peanut?"
"Well, you said we couldn't have a lot of interaction with the living," I explained. Not that I really listened to that rule. "You never said that we couldn't have close interactions with other reapers. Besides if there is a rule about it then I wanna see the official reaper rule book to see what I can actually do, cause I'm starting to think that I can't do a whole hell of a lot!"
Rube shrugged. "There is no real rule against, I just don't think it's such a good idea."
"Whatever. It's my afterlife I'm free to make my own choice."
I could tell Rube was pissed off, but he really couldn't do anything about it. He handed us each our post-its and then left. He didn't even eat, he must have been pissed off at us. I've never seen Rube not eat. I also knew that this was not the end of it, and he'd make up some rules or something. Whatever, at least he didn't tell us that we were not allowed to even look at each other ever again. We didn't say very much during breakfast, and then I went to work.
Almost as soon as I sat down, Delores was standing there.
"How did it go, Millie?" she asked.
"Oh, umm, same as any other wake and funeral I've been to," I said, not sure what else to say.
"You made your peace with your aunt?"
"Yeah, I guess it was her time though. Everyone who was close to her was saying that it was probably for the better because she was diagnosed with cancer."
"And you didn't know before hand?"
"Well, my mom had a fight with her when I was kid, and so I didn't speak to her very much. I apologized to her, I just hope it wasn't too late."
"It's never too late, I'm glad your trip was productive. We better get back to work."
I nodded, turned to my computer screen, and began to look busy. The day went by pretty quickly, after work I realized that I really didn't want to deal with Daisy right away, so I decided to go to the park. Sure enough Reggie was there, sitting on a swing. She looked like her head was elsewhere. She jumped out of her skin when I began to talk to her.
"What's up, Reggie?" I asked.
"Oh, not much, I'm glad you're back," she said.
I was half expecting her to hug me. "Have a rough last couple of days?"
"Something like that, my mom is driving me crazy!"
Well she didn't call her Joy, that had to be progress of some sort. "Why?" "Well, as you know I'm back in school, and I had a test the day you left. I don't do well on tests, but she got made at me for getting a "B" I usually get "C's" and "D's" so I was really proud to show her my "B" and she just shrugged it off like it was nothing."
"Maybe there's something else on her mind."
"I thought she'd be happy I was back in school, it kind of makes me want to stop again."
"Well for one thing, you're too young to really drop out of school, and for another well… Was your sister good at school?"
"Yeah, she was super-smart."
"Maybe your mom thinks that you should be doing as well as she did?"
Reggie shrugged. "I try to, but I just can't!"
"Why don't you tell your mom that?"
"Cause she never listens to me."
"Have you ever tried to talk to her?"
"Well, no…"
"Then try, she may surprise you."
"And if she doesn't?"
"I won't get mad at you for not calling her Mom."
"All right then. I want to show you something."
"Where?" I inquired.
"Right near my house."
"And where might that be?" I couldn't believe that I actually remembered to pretend like I didn't know where she lived! I was very proud of myself.
"It's like five minutes from here."
"All right, cause I have to meet someone in a couple of hours."
"Well then you can just look at it, and then you can go do whatever it is you do."
I nodded, and she led me to her tree. It was really hard to pretend like I had never seen it before. But I think I pulled off rather convincingly. I really had no idea what to say about it though.
"So what is this place anyway?" I asked.
"It's where I come to think and be alone, it's my reminder of my sister."
"I see. I'm sorry I really don't know what to say."
"You don't like it?"
"I didn't say that, it's just different, but I don't know I can kind of understand how something like this would help you."
"I like to come here to read, think, do homework, whatever."
"Does your mom know about this place?" I had a feeling that my mother would not like it one little bit.
"Yeah, she does, she hates it, but she lets me keep coming back."
"That's a good thing then." I looked at my watch. "I hate to do this to you, but I have to go. Did you want to meet here from no on?"
"Um, no we'll come here if we want, but I know my mom doesn't know about me going to the park, so we'll keep meeting there."
"All right, see you later Reggie."
"See you tomorrow Millie!"
I found my way to the road, and deiced to walk to where my next appointment was. My sister was one strange kid, but I was glad that I had a second chance to get to know her. After the last couple days taking one soul didn't seem as hard as it sometimes did. I looked at my post-it note to see where I was going. I knew where this one was, it was at a mall that I had been to a couple times when I was alive. I wondered how M. King was going to die at the mall. Since I started this job I began to realize just how many people died a day, and just how little it effected most people. Most of the deaths I dealt with never even made the paper.
I went and I sat down on a bench as close to where whatever was going to happen was going to take place. It was nice not thinking about the whole situation with Mason not that we had resolved it. I was able to focus on doing my impression of a fly on the wall, looking for risk factors. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a graveling climb up the wall, and start playing with a light fixture. The mall was pretty dead, I looked at my watch, and only saw one woman walking remotely close. I stood up, and walked by her. Brushing up to her as I walked by her, and took her soul. Moments later I heard a loud crash. I looked behind me, and sure enough the light fixture had fallen on her. She went on her way immediately, I was glad after yesterday I was glad to have a soul that knew what had happened and just moved on to wherever it was she was going.
I decided to walk home from there, it wasn't that far away. On the way I decided to stop and get a couple of salads, as a peace offering to Daisy, hoping she'd be at the apartment when I got there. I bought a couple of chicken salads of some sort, at a place I had seen her bring stuff home from. When I got there, sure enough she was on the bed going through lines.
"Daisy!" I said trying to get her out of acting mode.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"Brought a peace offering, come join, I'm not eating this alone."
"What did you buy me?" she asked almost like a little kid.
"A salad from that place you seem to like so much."
"With chicken?"
"Yes."
"Oh, Georgia, you're such a good roommate!" She hugged me.
I handed her one of the salads, a fork and a package of dressing, took my own, and we both sat down on the couch to eat them. I flipped through the channels finally landing on some cheesy looking chick-flick that I knew Daisy would like.
"Have you seen this movie?" she asked.
"No."
"Oh, it's wonderful! Just watch it!"
We watched the movie, and ate silently. It wasn't a terrible movie, but certainly not something that I'd normally watch. When it was done I decided that I should probably confront her about her giving me the silent treatment earlier. I'd get very broke very fast if I kept feeding her. Health food stuff isn't cheap, and that's what she tends to eat, she only occasionally treats herself to burgers and fries.
"Why were you so mad at me this morning?"
"Oh, Georgia like I even have to tell you!"
Did I feel stupid. "Uh, I'm a little confused."
"It's about Mason you silly girl."
"But you don't even like him."
"I know. He's a dirty little thing if you ask me."
"So why are you mad me then?"
"It was fun to have him pursue me. I'm going to miss it. I just get a mad sometimes when someone takes away my fun!"
Well at least she admits that she's a selfish head-case. "Okay.."
"I know it doesn't make much sense to you, but when I saw the two of you in that bed I felt like I had lost something. Well two things really."
"Two things?"
"Well I'm going to have to find another silly little puppy to tease, but that's not that hard. But also thought that I was going to loose you as a friend, and a roommate."
"I'm not going to be moving in with him right away, and we haven't been very close friends."
She laughed. "All right so we're more like feuding sisters then friends. But I thought that if we acted like sisters, or friends you would tell before you, well you know."
"Before what?" I asked, almost wanted to laugh.
"Well before you started sleeping with a guy. I have had more experience then you."
"We haven't slept together. Well we've shared a bed two nights now, but we've never done anything!"
"You haven't?"
"Uh, no, actually we haven't really even kissed all that much."
"Really?"
I shrugged. "I don't know, I just don't have the urge to be all over him all the time, you know. At night it's nice to have him near, especially at that farm we were at, and last night it was just easier. He was tired, and I figured since you weren't home you'd get home later and not be too impressed if I gave him the couch, and since sharing a bed with him once wasn't a big deal."
"You can't believe how relived I am! You have to promise me you tell me all the juicy details. I always tell you."
Not that I've ever asked her for it. "I'll tell you as much as you want to here, keep in mind I will be talking about Mason."
"Oh, right." We both laughed. "So have you ever been with a guy?" I blushed. "No, actually, when I was alive I went out of my way to avoid guys."
"Why on earth would you do that, they're so much fun!"
"I really don't know. It was pretty stupid of me."
"A pretty girl like you not having a boyfriend that must have caused them all to talk."
I laughed. "Maybe that's why I did it. I liked people thinking of me like this strange mystery person. It was funny to look at something and wonder what they were really thinking about you."
"I could never do that, I like everyone to like me!"
"I've noticed."
"So what made you decide to change your ways with Mason?"
I thought about it a moment, and answered the only thing I could. "I really don't know. We just started talking, and for a while I was afraid, but he made me feel better, and one thing led to another, and we started acting like more then friend." Daisy laughed. "I hope I find that some day."
"I'm sure you will."
"Oh! This movie is a classic!!"
We both fell silent, and watched another movie together. It was the first time Daisy and I actually talked about anything of substance, and I was glad that we became roommates. Even if she had been dropped on my like an anvil at the beginning, I liked having her around. I also liked that I had someone to go to for advice, especially if the whole thing with Mason become even more serious. About half way through the movie the phone ran. I answered it.
"Hey, Georgie!" I heard a familiar voice.
"Hello Mason, I'm busy watching a movie with Daisy. It'll be done in about an hour if you want to come over after that." "Um, all right."
I hung up the phone, and sat down next to Daisy. "Did I miss anything important?" I asked.
"No, not really. Shh! It's coming to a good part!"
I laughed to myself, and watched the rest of the movie. She was right it was a good part. A few minutes after the movie ended there was a knock at the door. I opened it, and Mason was standing there with a rose.
"Where did you get that?" Daisy asked.
"I bought it, thank you very much!" he said handing it to me. I laughed, and put it in a glass with some water. "Did you want to go for a walk?"
"Yeah, just let me get my coat. I'll be back a little later Daisy."
"Okay, we have to do that again."
"Yes we will."
We went outside.
"Do what again?" Mason inquired.
"We just had a little girls night."
For the first since I was undead, I actually felt like I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. I was glad that for now bad karma seemed to be on vacation, and I could somewhat enjoy the second chance of sort that I got. I just hoped that Rube wouldn't pull out a dusty rule book and tell us that Mason I could not be more then friends.
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End notes: all right this is probably the last in this time period, next one will be a year to five years in the future, I think… I'm not really sure… tell me what you think should I skip into the future or do a quick last one now where Rube sets out the rules? You tell me! I have a lot of ideas, but if I keep in this time I can't use 'em. Keep the feedback coming it keeps me writing…