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finished.
“Ye overbearing pisser. I should have…. You can go to hell, you rotter.”
    This time there was no doubt that she’d
hung up. She’d slammed the phone down so hard on that he felt the ringing in
his ears all the way to his toes and back. When he started to redial his home
to speak to her again, fire her he supposed, his phone rang in his hand. Before
he could speak, his mom tore into him like he was five and had dug up all her flowers
to have himself a bit more land to play in.
    “What is wrong with you, young man? Did
I not teach you better manners than to threaten someone? What is wrong with
you?” He started to tell her that the girl had started it when his mom spoke
again. “I’ll have you know that we’d been talking about you all day yesterday,
and I told her that you’d been a good and kind child and had grown up to be a
better man. I even went so far as to tell her I was never more proud of you
than when you treated the people who worked for you with respect and goodwill,
and now you do this? I’m mortified.”
    “She called me a wussy.” As soon as the
words were out of his mouth, he realized how ridiculous it sounded. Like he was
a little boy and was insulted by the class bully. “Mom, I’m really tired. Tell
her that I’m sorry and that—”
    “You’ll tell her, not me. You’ll come
right into this house and you’re going to beg her to forgive you.” She huffed
at him again. “If I let you into this house. Samuel James Payne, I’m
embarrassed at your behavior.”
    Samuel pulled over to the side of the
road. He was exhausted, and now he was pissed. This was no way to drive, so he took
several deep breaths before he spoke again. He hated to upset his mom more than
anything in the world.
    “I’m going to be home in about forty
minutes. I just want to come into the house and go to my bed. I’ll be able to
deal with her when I get up. I’m sorry I embarrassed you. I should have kept my
mouth shut. I’ll make it up to both of you.” He only hoped he could. His mom
was really pissed off. “I’m terribly sorry, Mom.”
    “You shouldn’t have said anything to
her. She’s come in on her day off to cater to you.” He thought he couldn’t have
felt any worse, but he did. “What with her having a cold and all, she’ll still
come in to fix you a breakfast.”
    “Tell her I’m sorry and I’ll pay her for
her time.” He wondered how much he was paying her and thought about doubling
her pay, but his mom spoke up first.
    “I’ll let her go home after she feeds
the rest of us. She’s already started cooking.” He heard the others in the room
now and smiled when Butler greeted everyone in his booming voice. “I’m still
upset with you.”
    “I know and I’m very sorry.” He pulled
back into traffic after hanging up the phone and thought about how badly he’d
screwed up. Next time he had to come this far he was taking a plane. He would
have been there by now and all cozied up in his bed. The last five miles seemed
to be the longest of the entire trip.
    ~~~
    Kennedy pulled the last of the trash out
of the bathroom and took it to the dumpster. It hadn’t occurred to her to make
sure that her trash was at the site before now. And the trash company was
really nice in waiting for her. Normally someone came by and picked up the
trash right outside the sites when there had been guests in the place, but she’d
completely forgotten.
    “There you be, miss. All fixed up.” The
man took the bag from her and dropped it into the back of his smelly truck. “I’ll
be here every other Tuesday through the winter months. If you need more of a
pickup, just holler and I’ll come by.” She nodded at him.
    “Thanks so much again for waiting on me.”
She pulled her coat tighter around her, thinking that it was fucking cold out
and this man was standing in only his shirt sleeves. “I’ll remember from now
on.”
    He was gone ten minutes later, and she
made her way back to her home.