Post by StoryGirl83 on Mar 20, 2009 19:19:08 GMT -5
Chapter Thirteen – Tricky Lady
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and Mrs. McGrath
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and Mrs. McGrath
Leo had been doing a fairly good job of keeping people from being suspicious and of doing Chris job. It had been a busy morning, so keeping occupied had been a fairly easy task. As his son left The Manor, Leo was talking to a customer, a woman who seemed to be trying cause trouble.
Jody had been running one of the cash registers all morning, but when she finished with the customer she was on, she walked over to Leo and offered a quarried look at the woman Leo was helping. “Mrs. McGrath, are you giving Chris a hard time?”
“Would I do that?” the customer, Mrs. McGrath, sounded more amused than annoyed. “Really now, girl. Didn’t your mama teach you better than that?”
Leo looked between the two women. Is she a regular or someone Jody knows?
As if to answer his question, Jody introduced them. “Chris, this is my neighbor, Adela McGrath. She likes to come in and play pranks on my coworkers. What was she asking for?”
“Something that hasn’t been made in a while,” Leo informed her. Mentally he added, Something that hasn’t been made since my mother was a little girl.
Jody gave Mrs. McGrath a look. “Quit messing with him. He may not be his self today, but this guy is one of my bosses. He could get me in trouble.” She pursed her lips and gave a good impression of a pouty child right down to the high pitched tone of her voice as she said, “Please, Mrs. McGrath.”
Mrs. McGrath laughed. “All right. I’ll leave this one alone.”
Jody grinned. “Great. Is there anything you actually want, Mrs. McGrath?”
Mrs. McGrath shook her head. She smiled as she walked away.
Jody turned her attention back to Leo. “So you have been acting kind odd lately. Today, yes, but for over a month. Is everything okay?”
How do you answer that? He thought as he looked at the young woman in front of him. Obviously this is about more than just today.
“Come on, Chris,” Jody looked at him searchingly. “You’ve more or less turned over responsibility to David most of the time. That’s not like you. Or it wasn’t before New Year’s. Did something happen then?”
This is something that my son is going to have to deal with. If he hasn’t been doing his job, I can’t fix that. Not sure what to say, Leo looked at her and said, “I can’t give you the answers you want, Jody.” I don’t know them. He was relieved at the site of a customer approaching the register. It was time to get back to work.