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coming to get his drill, which he had left without. Grandpa was the one person in the world that she knew loved her beyond a shadow of a doubt. She watched him get into his car and drive away into the dark.
    She could see black silhouettes of trees waving in the breeze outside. She pulled open her living room window hoping it would help cool off the room and maybe help her to sober up a little faster. Down below in the parking lot, she spotted Daniel getting out of his car. Madison called down to him. “Hey you! You’re not allowed to kill me, you know. Spenser wouldn’t like it.”
    “I’ll make it look like an accident,” he called back.
    “Story of my life,” she called. “I’m just an accident.”
    From out of nowhere a voice yelled into the night, “Shut up out there!” It sounded uncomfortably near.

Chapter Five
    Madison slapped her hand over her mouth and stuck her head out the window to look around. She couldn’t help herself. She started to giggle. She couldn’t tell where the woman’s voice had come from and her giggles got louder. She knew that was an inappropriate reaction, but the very fact that it was inappropriate made it feel delicious.
    Sure enough, someone stuck a head out of the window, white puffy hair moving around in the breeze. She’s right next door! Madison’s giggles increased and she started to snort, so she slapped her second hand on top of the first. Inwardly she was mortified at her own behavior. Behind her Spenser said, “Madison, seriously?”
    The old gal scolded, “What’s the matter with you? Decent people are trying to sleep! Knock it off before I call the cops!”
    Madison pulled her head back inside. She turned back to Spenser saying, “Should I tell her I know someone in the FBI?”
    Spenser rolled her eyes. “So you haven’t got in enough trouble for one night?”
    “The whole world hates me and I never have any fun.”
    Daniel knocked on the door right at that moment and Spenser let him in while Madison went to the fridge and pulled out the bag of tacos to give to them for the ride home.
    “I’m sure you guys don’t mind if I rush you out the door. I have a lot of self-reproaching to do.”
    “Well, one thing is for sure,” said Daniel. “I’ll have to use a different costume now. You gave those guys ideas about how to embarrass me onstage.”
    “Let’s go,” said Spenser. “I’ll embarrass you at home.” He smiled and Spenser turned to Madison saying, “Wink, wink.”
    Madison used her most bored tone. “In case you hadn’t noticed, you just said ‘wink wink’ out loud.”
    “Did I?” Spenser smiled as her eyebrows shot up and down.
    “Stop already. I get it.” She pushed them towards the door and added, “You guys both saved my ass tonight. Let me quickly say… Sorry. Asshole. You rock. I don’t.”
    Spenser said. “Go to bed and sleep it off. You’ll rock tomorrow.” One last hug and they left.
    Madison locked her door and sighed. I don’t have anyone to wink wink about. Not really. ExBoy doesn’t count. I’ve got to figure out my stupid life.
    She decided baby steps were in order. She would start with drilling holes and hanging things up tonight so she could return the drill to Grandpa tomorrow. Then she’d finally finish unpacking. Tidy up the place. Make it look like home. She started to get hopeful. This could work. When I’m no longer in danger of having a condemned sign hung on my door, maybe I’ll ask Spenser and Daniel to hook me up with one of his friends. Just no wrestlers.
    Ten minutes later, the high pitched whirring of the drill seared her eardrums. She was drilling the sixth hole and wondering why they called it drywall, when she noticed that the holes seemed awfully big. Crap! She had forgotten to switch out the bit for a tiny one.
    Just then she heard and felt a rapid pounding on the wall. Madison heard the old woman’s voice drifting through her window. “God damn it, I’m going to come over there and