she was in love, and she would get this house for whatever price she had to pay. It was going to be a lot of hard work getting it cleaned up though.
She started to turn around when she noticed a light flash in one of the upper windows. She squinted to see more but it was too bright outside. She figured maybe the crazy guy had someone up there cleaning or something but then she saw that the padlock was still locked on the outside of the gate and that there were weeds entwined around it as well. There was no way someone was in that house.
“The sun must have reflected off of a mirror or something.” She said again, shrugging to herself.
She got back on her bike wishing that she had more time to at least go inside the fence and raced down the road to try and make a deal with the guy.
He had started to back up when she came around the corner and stopped when he saw her. She pulled up beside the driver’s side window and he rolled it down with a dreadful look on his face.
“Look,” she said after taking off her helmet, “I’ve got $5,000 saved up in the bank right now and I can probably come up with another $5,000 by the end of the week…”
“Done!” He said excitedly. “I’ll take the $5,000 you got saved up today and you can use the other $5,000 you got to get the place cleaned up a little bit. Where do you bank at? I’ll meet you there this afternoon with the paperwork.”
Drew was halfway through her work day and still in awe. She had wondered how she hadn’t drooled on herself after watching the guy roll off and she still hadn’t closed her dropped jaw. She couldn’t believe that she was going to own a castle of her very own, and a cemetery she added to herself, this very afternoon for only $5,000. Maybe it was all a big scam. Maybe she would find out in a couple of days that the paperwork was fake and that she was out 5 grand but hey she was moving in tonight and getting a couple of days worth out of it anyway.
“Drew Taylor! I can’t believe that you would fall for such crap! Did you really hand over $5,000 to some fat, cigar smoking creep? Are you seriously moving into that place tonight? Have you lost your mind? Have you fallen off of your rocker? Have you…”
“LIZA! Enough!” Drew covered her eyes with her free hand willing the headache that was forming away. “Yes, I am moving into the house tonight and probably all of those other things that you said, but I just took one look at the place and had to! Will you please come down tomorrow after work and see it? I took the next couple of days off at the gallery and then I have the weekend to get organized. I would just really love for you to come and see it. You will understand then why I had to do it. Don’t say no!” She said as Liza started to protest. “And bring Tim’s weed eater and lawn mower I need to borrow it for a couple of days. I love you!” And she hung up. She didn’t think that she had ever heard so many buts come out of one person’s mouth before in such a short time.
It only took her two hours to pack up her belongings. The apartment that she had rented was fully furnished so she didn’t have to worry about much. Everything else had been in storage for the last couple of years and the storage company was happy to have everything delivered to her the next day.
She not so politely wrote on the bathroom mirror “thanks for nothing” in blood red lipstick and flushed the keys to the apartment down the toilet on her way out the door. As the front door slammed behind her she could have sworn that she heard a laugh from within the apartment. Drew smiled to herself, so maybe she didn’t like that place that much after all. Downstairs the taxi driver was already loading up her things and had already been given directions as to where to meet her with her stuff.
She was on her way to a new beginning she felt as she flew down the highway on her Harley. It was like the Wheel of Fortune was