The Tree House - Book 2
Copyright© 2010 by AJ Martin
Chapter 5
Michelle exclaimed, "This was even better the second time!"
"And I got to see it this time too," my mother said with moistness streaming down her face.
All this was such a turn around from the direction our lives had been taking. Yesterday I was about to tell my mother my world had fallen apart and then I got surrounded by Bubble-Wrap!
Lindie. My Bubble-Wrap! No, my TWO Lindies were my bubble wrap.
I wanted to be surrounded by them. I wanted to be surrounded by BOTH of my Lindies. So I lifted Lindie from her chair and took her place on it. I pulled her onto my left knee. Taking Michelle's hand I pulled her onto my right knee.
Snuggling both of them tightly to me, I'm sure neighbors could hear me purring. I know that if the U.S. National Geodetic Survey told the Coast Guard they needed a new lighthouse, I would fit the bill I was beaming so brightly.
Everything wasn't right in the world for me, yet, but I could see that there might be some light in the tunnel I'd been walking down. Well, at least I could see some light and it definitely was not that proverbial, full steam ahead, train.
I still had to figure out how to tell my mother about my job, or rather, how I didn't have one right now. I knew I could always use my room and settle there until my feet were planted in some other endeavor. That was what drew me home this weekend.
I guess the biggest problem I had was I had to clean out my apartment in Stewart City. My work had been there and it was far enough away from home that I had my independence and near enough that I could pop home for the weekend whenever the mood swung that way.
Even though I'd had a real nice job and great pay, I didn't have much there to cart away. I'd originally gotten the apartment furnished because, well, when I started at SM&J Programming Solutions, I didn't know how long I'd be there.
Furnished seemed fine to me back when I moved in. It was just a simple way to start out. SM&J was my first job after finishing college. At my starting salary, even though the furnished apartment cost a little more, it was the easiest line between two points. I didn't have much in the way for expenses other than my college loans so the little extra was easy to deal with.
I did accumulate the normal personal items like my lap top and a nice High-Def Wide-Screen TV. And of course, a load of movies to go with it. Clothing too. Most of it casual with some business shirts thrown in. Perhaps a half-dozen ties. But that was pretty much all of it. So moving out would not be too difficult. A small U-Haul truck and one trip would do it.
The only saving grace was when I told the landlord I was going to have to move, she said I could live off of the security for the last month's rent. That way, I had the entire month of June to move my things out. It was also a boon to the landlord because she had admitted she could get more for the apartment with a new tenant because she could raise the rent!
It's always nice to leave a place with an amicable relationship with your landlord. Even though I didn't have any references when I moved in, being able to get a reference could only help in the future. Or at least that's what I thought at the time. Little did I know how upside down my life was going to turn once I got home.
And turn so much for the better I was finding out. Rushing through my mind was, "I'd better get on with telling my mother that I'd be moving home againnn... ???" when everything in my mind stopped at a dead halt.
"Damn!" rattled through my brain. I'd done it again. Here I'd just gotten finished placing a ring on my Lindie's left hand and ZOOM off I'd gone into Never-Never-Land.
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