Chapter Seven: Interesting
I ran home trying to remember the last time that I had taken a shower. It seemed to me that it had been days since the last one. Ewwwwww! I couldn't stand it when people don't take showers and then they leave their hair down for the entire world to see the grease. That's a pet peeve of mine.
When I finally got home a decided that I was going to feed my chicken before I took my shower so that I would not have to do it when I got home who knows what trauma I would have gone through that night. When I got into the coop I realized that there was something wrong with the picture here. My chicken was lying on the ground shivering and bleeding on the leg. "Who did this to you?" I asked my poor little Genevieve (that's what I named her) if she was ok and she just looked at me as if to say "you idiot I was wounded and you ask me if I'm ok? Jeese your dumb." Oh well. I wrapped her leg up in protective bandages so that it would keep it from infection until tomorrow so I could fix it better. What? This isn't chicken abuse I just wanted to look good for the soon to be, attempted murderer.
I decided that I was going to try to look as nice as possible so he would have even more of a reason to want to marry me sooner. So I took an extra couple of minutes in the hot spring washing and rewashing my hair. Then I went back to my house to put my strawberry blonde hair up into a really nice bun on the top of my head, then I put a fake hairpiece in around it and then I put a couple faux-jeweled clips around my hair. I have never liked my hair, it has always been very thin and stringy and when I am trying to impress people I use this hairstyle with different colored clips.
When I arrived at the inn and saw an empty carriage in front of it. I went inside and immediately was literally swept off my feet and then I saw why, there had been a daily mopping already so when I walked in the door and Todd had tried to come hug me and he slipped on the wet floor and ran into me then I slipped too and fell flat on my butt. Joy what a way to start out the night. "Sorry" he apologized as he helped me to my feet but he fell again and turned bright red, this time I helped him to his feet. Then I remembered that Doug had gotten done with everything early because he wasn't feeling well and he didn't want Ann to have to do it later on in the night. So here we were waiting for nothing in an Inn filled with people that were coming and going and ordering and getting drunk off of the house special of beer 'Los Vientos del Cambio' which means the winds of change.
Suddenly Ann came running up to us in a huff. "This place is a madhouse!" she said her voice as loud as it could go because of all the people attempting to talk louder than one another in that one small area. "Can you guys maybe help out for a little while?" She asked desperation in her voice. "Um…" Todd muttered this was obviously not part of the plan to marry, kill, and receive all my money. "Sure! We'd be glad to help you." I replied quickly so that he wouldn't have had any time to say that we were already going to have dinner together somewhere else that night. "What?" Todd said obviously not thrilled with working instead of moving closer to marrying me. Then of course killing someone was no walk in the park either. So I took what I could get and began to take people's orders. And I then knew what Ann Had been going through, she had to take all the orders form the drunk losers that came into the bar really late at night, all of them asking for food food food! Then it was time to close up and we had to help her sweep up all the broken glass and the peanut shells and all the dirty dishes that piled up higher than mount mineral.
"Good-bye!" I told Ann as me and Todd left the building after the place was closed up. "Thanks so much," she replied, "I don't know what I would have done without you!" She closed the door. "See you later" I told Todd who was obviously not thrilled with having to go home without 'getting to know me better'. "Yeah whatever." He groaned. "Todd I don't appreciate that!" I scolded, "she needed our help and we can always go out some other time." "Yeah I know it's just that I had reservations, and we were going to have a wonderful night and we were going to be able to step up the relationship a little. I guess all that for nothing." He walked back inside the inn and before I could say anything else he slammed the door.
Well this has been strange. I thought to myself. Maybe he does love me after all, but I cant be too sure because he lied to me just a second ago. This has been… a very Interesting Night! Now for my chicken.