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“I threw up on him the fifth time he made me watch the scene where Samara comes out of the TV.”
“Are you still afraid of it?”
“Yes. And now Dale refuses to sit near me anytime we watch television.”
“Then his advice was a miserable failure.”
“Uh huh.”
“And you’re bringing it up in relation to me and Will and the job because…?”
“Because you need to take the job.”
“You’re comparing you throwing up on your brother with me taking a job from Will? You’re making no sense, Fi.”
“And neither are you. So it’s a stalemate.”
Bzzz.
My phone interrupts. It’s a text from Perky.
Listen to Fiona. Take the job. You don’t want to move back home. Mostly, we don’t want to listen to you bitch about moving back home. So be a good friend and take the job, she writes.
“I am not taking a job just because you two want me to spare you the pain of my existence.”
“That’s not why. You need the money. Plus, Will is well connected.”
I hate that she’s right.
“Do a good job for him and he could help you get another job. Full time, with benefits, like you had when you worked for the Tollesons.”
“Why did they have to sell the business? And why did they sell it to a heroin dealer?”
“Pretty sure that wasn’t intentional, Mal.”
“I know. But I really loved my life. And it all got ruined when Sven and Joyce decided to retire and sell off. And then the DEA showed up and took my work computer away. And my Soylent.”
Fiona grinds her teeth. “That powdered meal supplement is disgusting. And they took it because they thought it was fentanyl.”
“I know. I went through decontamination, remember?” That was also the last time anyone other than my gyn touched my boob. I don’t blurt that out.
I have some standards.
Besides, Fiona and Perky already know that, so it doesn’t matter.
“Think about it this way. You spent all those years wanting something from Will you could never have.”
“Uh… thanks? You’re really selling it.”
“Your crush on him took something out of you.”
“And?”
“Maybe getting to know the real Will could help you to reframe. Refocus. And move forward by getting something out of him.”
“Like what?”
“A permanent job? A lead? Or even just a reclamation.”
