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times in her life and his wife had passed when Alley
was just little. She didn’t remember her grandma at all. Her dad’s parents came
around once or twice a year, but she was never close with either of them. A
nurse came in and told them that it was time for them to go to the dining room
for lunch. She asked Trevas and Alley if they would like to have lunch with
them.
    Trevas
looked to Alley for the answer, and she shrugged both her shoulders. “It’s okay
with me,” she offered.
    They
ate creamed turkey over biscuits, and it was not the best food in the world,
neither of them finished their plates.
    Alley
was confused again by her grandpa when he leaned over and asked her if she was
the new nurse.
    “No,
grandpa, this is my friend Alley,” Trevas explained to him again.
    Trevas
and Alley left after lunch and met his sister Anna at the door, coming to visit.
    “How
are they today?” She asked.
    “Good,
grandpa is a little confused today but not too bad. They are both in pretty
good spirits.
    Anna
this is my friend Alley,” he said, introducing her to his sister.
    “Hello
Alley,” Anna said looking at her in a peculiar manner.
    Alley
smiled and nodded.
    “Call
me later Trevas, we have to meet the auctioneer at the house Saturday, you are
still coming, aren’t you?”
    “I don’t
know Anna, I will call you.”
    “Trevas,
you are not making me do this by myself,” she demanded.
    “I
will call you later Anna,” he maintained, dismissing him and Alley out the
double doors.
    “I
like you grandparents,” Alley told him as they headed back the way they had
come.
    “I
think they liked you too,” he smiled at her.
    “You
do know that your sister thinks we are a couple, don’t you?” she asked, and he
smiled with a snicker.
    “Yeah,
I got that vibe too.”
    “What
is wrong with your grandpa Trevas?” she asked sincerely.
    “He
has Alzheimer’s disease, today was actually a good day. Sometimes he doesn’t
even know who my grandmother is and they have been married for almost fifty
five years.”
    “That
is so sad. Were you and your sister talking about selling their things?”
    “Yeah,”
Trevas said with a sad tone. “I’m not looking forward to it at all, but we both
know that they will never go back home.”
    “That’s
tough.”
    “Yes
it is,” he admitted and changed the subject. “Are you hungry? The food there wasn’t
the best.”
    “The
food was horrible,” she agreed.
    Trevas
pulled up to the curb of the thrift store. “Do you need some money?” he asked.
    “No.
I have money, aren’t you coming?”
    “No.
I will wait here. I need to make a few calls. You go, take your time,” he added,
and she disappeared with a big smile.
    “What’s
going on Trevas?” Chase answered. “Are you surviving the devil girl?”
    Trevas,
for some reason, didn’t like him calling her that, even though he had called
her a little bitch a couple of days before. She wasn’t what people made her out
to be at all, and after being around her for a few days, he felt sorry for her.
He knew she wouldn’t have picked this life, had she had a choice. “Yeah, it hasn’t
been bad. She’s not as bad as I thought she was going to be.”
    “Well
that sounds promising. You might just make it yet.”
    “She
got kicked out of school for three days for smoking, and I had to get a call
from Fletcher, that wasn’t pleasant.”
    “Damn
Trevas, don’t let shit like that happen. It makes us look bad. Search her bag
if you have too.”
    “Oh,
it won’t happen again. I know what I’m up against now.”
    Trevas
only talked to Chase for a minute. He had to go because whoever he was working
for was ready to come out of the restaurant, and he had to go escort her.
    He
called his mom and they talked about his grandparents. She told him that she wouldn’t
be able to come Saturday either because of work, and decided they would
reschedule for the tenth time. He waited for forty five minutes, and was
starting to get