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Great Unexpectations Chapter 37
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From out of nowhere a friendly "Good morning", rang out. Tina turned to face the direction it came from and found a spry senior woman out for her daily walk. "Morning", Tina smiled. Alice said nothing but eyed the woman suspiciously. "How are you this morning?", Tina asked. "Fantastic", the woman replied grinning, not breaking her stride. "Any day I wake up on this side of the dirt is a great day." Tina had no choice but to offer a an appreciative chuckle. "I suppose that’s true", she agreed. "Have a good day."
After the old woman was out of earshot, Alice turned incredulously to Tina. "What the hell was that?"
"What?" Tina asked. Not appreciating the fact that Alice was looking at her as if she’d just sprung from an alien pod.
"So what, you just talk to strangers now?", Alice asked in shock.
"That’s what they do here, Alice. People are friendly here. Get used to it."
"I don’t trust it, T. That old lady is up to something", she said crossing her arms haughtily. "It’s towns like these that grow all the serial killers ya know. And everybody’s always shocked when their seemingly innocent little old lady of a neighbor has twenty bodies buried in the basement."
Tina laughed out loud at the rant that Alice was clearly on now. "You’re being ridiculous. And paranoid. Maybe you’ve been in LA too long."
"Yeah, well maybe you’ve been in Mayberry too long. You’re starting to lose your We-Ho edge."
"Oh god", Tina sighed. "I have an edge?"
Alice looked Tina over, trying to find any evidence of ‘street cred’. Tina, for her part, lowered a very annoyed and bored glare back at Alice. After a short-lived staredown Alice blinked. And smiled. She shook her head and then laughed, inviting Tina to laugh with her. Which Tina did.
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"Come on Shane! Move your bony ass!!", Alice bellowed to her sleeping friend. Sleeping may be too kind a word. Sloughing off a hangover would give a more accurate picture. Shane’s normally unkempt yet stylish hair was now simply unkempt and covering a fair portion of her face as she lay on her stomach, her arm hanging off the side of the bed. "We don’t know how long we’re gonna be here and I wanna check out this town, besides the bars that is." The idea of drinking their way across the country at thirty thousand feet seemed like a fine one when boarding the plane at LAX. Deciding to immediately take a taxi to the nearest bar and continue the drunk fest once landing in Traverse City, however, did not sit well with an exhausted Alice. Exercising something that usually had a lot of time off, her judgement, Alice opted to take their luggage to the hotel and check in. She returned to the bar hours later finding Shane at the Karaoke stand singing Patsy Cline standards amid shouts of support from the dozen or so patrons of the place. Standing with an ear-to-ear grin, watching the spectacle, Alice made a mental note to quiz Shane on her country music knowledge at a later date
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Wow what a finale, glad to see another baby on the way. Thanks for a great ending and hope too see more.
Great ending….but it left me wanting more…how selfish!!!! lol
Loved it!!!! Really thorough ending especially Mr Buckley’s demise. Thx so much for a greatly intriguing story. And my soppy heart loves the ending. Maybe
maybe, one day u’ll let us in on how Cora progressed and do a little update on B, T, A, The poopy dog [u know they can be trained to do it in the one place], new baby and Alice. maybe…see my big pleading puppy dog eyes!!!!
Thanks for this great story. I’ve loved every minute of it.
well, well, well, look who finally posted her story! it was definitely worth the wait so i won’t bust your chops too much. can’t wait to read the new one. i was a bit surprised that mr. buckley’s demise. i kinda figured it would feature a shovel, a hammer, and a ticket to tahiti. anyway, thanks for giving us this story. i know the next one will be even better!!
I have missed you and this story. I loved the ending with Cora getting some of her childhood back and Richard doing whatever was needed to make sure she was safe from the “evil dad”. I loved the banter between Alice and the locals at the beach. Heck, in our area we still stop for funerals. I do hope that you will revisit this story at some time down the road. You left us hanging with a pregnant Tina and mommy Bette.
What a long awaited welcome surprise, hope you are back to writing a bit before dissappearing again.
Bittersweet. Yhat’s what it is. We are blessed with another post, but the post is the finale. Thanks for coming back to finish. Thank you for your story. I hope you will share another s with us.
Gotta echo Spumoni – very bittersweet it is. Thank you for this amazing finale….hope to see another one from you, whether it be a continuation of this one or something else – when you can, of course…till then ;)
Great story…loved every chapter!
I just wanted to express my graditude for your story I have been guilty of silent reading but just had to let you know how much I love this story. Great journey which had me scared happy and joyful for our girls and poor Cory. Thanks
Thank you for this story. It was a pleasure to read (and I’m delighted Angie got her dog).
This was a wonderful story, red. Thanks so much for writing it. Cheers
I absolutly loved this story and hate to see it go. So I’m with Rau in the pleading for a little tidbit in the future of how Cora is doing. And how B&T, Angie and her little brother or sister (or maybe both LOL)are doing….please???But every story of you will make me read it, thank you Red and hope it won’t take too long for a little somnething from you!
Fantastic ending! Though I will miss this story I hope to see more stories from you soon.
Great story, Red!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!