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"I know. Come on. Let's take a seat at the dining room table and go through this stuff. Once we're done, we can chat about the other stuff."
"Okay." She nods softly.
I close the door behind her and place the files on the dining room table. I watch as Skye takes a seat and looks at me.
"Would you like something to drink? Water, wine, coffee?"
"I think I'll have a cappuccino if you are able to make it. I feel like it's going to be a long night going through all of these."
"I do have an espresso machine. Two cappuccinos coming up," I say, as I head to the kitchen.
She grabs the folder at the top of the pile and I watch as she pulls out a yellow legal pad and pen from the small satchel she's carrying.
"What's this about anyway?" she asks as she starts scribbling notes on the pad. "Who are all these people?"
"You want to know what the case is about?" I ask, very surprised. She hasn't really shown much interest in anything before. Just done the work.
"Yeah. These are a lot of people that we're suing and I'm just curious why."
I pull out two small cups and saucers and turn on the espresso machine. I listen as it grinds the beans and turn toward her.
"Well, we are representing a bank."
"A bank in New Jersey, right?" she says.
I nod. "Yeah, and that bank was the financier for several car dealerships in the area."
"Oh, okay." She nods.
"And one of the car dealerships was a Toyota car dealership and they went out of business. Do you want sugar and milk?" I ask.
"It's a cappuccino. Doesn't it already have milk?" She frowns.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry. Would you like sugar?"
"Yes, please. Brown if you have it."
"I believe I do," I say, opening a cupboard.
"Okay, so we're representing a bank that represents a car dealership?" she says, frowning. "Sorry, I'm confused."
"No, we're representing a bank that lent money to a car dealership and the people we're suing are customers from the car dealership."
"Oh, okay. Like, they didn't pay their car loan?"
"Exactly," I say with a smile.
"Wow. There are so many of them." She licks her lips. "That's kind of sad. The economy sucks."
"Yeah, the economy is pretty bad right now, but many of them are not happy that they are being sued by the bank."
"Why not? If you don't pay, you don't get your car."
"Well, the fact of the matter is they didn't receive a car."
"What?" She looks at me in confusion.
"So many of these customers purchased cars from the dealership and were meant to come and pick up their cars. Either they were in transport or the car was being serviced and being prepared."
