alk down from 21st Avenue and link up to Killingsworth Street where she lived. Charlie the hobo sat by the street corner wit
ything for the
ped a couple of cents into h
the porter greeted her with a smile at
returned the greeting wit
n and year out, she was always around. One had to wonder if she had any family to go to du
en in a hurry to leave for work in the morning and she forgot to feed her. Snowball crawled out
tie. You
ed into the kitchen with Snowball hot on her tail, her eyes fixed on
okay?" Emma pulled out a box of Purina and poured some out into Sn
," Emma said, sidestepping Snowball who didn't seem to mind he
her shoulders. The light bulb flickered and she made a mental not
body. Her phone buzzed in the pocket of the denim shorts she'd just taken off and she pried i
tt's voice carried on from
a replied, steppin
dy gone by the
stop sleeping like a log," Emma
joked. Emma shook wildly with laughter. "Which reminds me, how'd your date go?
terrible," Emma fought back the anger that steamed up
f shock and Emma could imagine her eyes growing as large saucers a
h he d
of laughter on the other end. "Sorry
a proper drink. Imagine he made us share a beer. Of course, I didn't
e. I mean it could have gone wors
lined in the bathtub, as the
hear running in
ut to have
for you," Scarlett announced, and Emma raised her eyebrows and looked
ecilia?" Sc
. It should have sounded familiar, but Emma was a sucker at remembering na
rrm
ember the bitch from senior high who thought you we
in their senior high school years; always perching on the shoulders of all the hot guys on the
a loss as to why a name as insignificant as
etails like that," Emma could picture Scarlett rolling her eyes as she spoke and she smiled at the thought. But she st
rom our set are turning up for her t
endly with anyone who had something she needed. With Scarlett, it was access to the numbers of all the ho
for tonight, so bring your ass down
re so there's supposed to be some kinda di
with failing marriages come to watch me dance butt naked," Scarlett said i
mma laughed hear
ou need t
na lie in bed and cry mys
down to The Pulse before seven p.m., or else I'd ha
come
being the bigger person and extending the olive
exasperation, already wary of wha
nk into the cold water, holding her b