body.
She flinched at the clearing of my throat, turned to face me and I slunk back the tiniest bit, overwhelmed and stricken with her beauty. What struck me first were her lips, full and plump, almost to the point of wondering if they were the product of some kind of allergic reaction. My gaze dashed north, and I gasped at her devastatingly beautiful eyes. They were green, but not an everyday green, more like moss green. She squirmed under my investigation and I shook my head to bring myself to the present.
“Um, hi, are you Reed? I’m Falcon, I’ve got some paperwork for you to sign. Would you mind following me?”
She put the books in her hand on one of the shelves and curtly nodded at me. She walked in front of me and to my surprise she smelled like apples. One would think that with orange hair she would smell like tangerines—weird.
I began to talk to her just as we passed Nellie’s office and purposefully threw my voice that way. “Sorry, but this paperwork was supposed to be completed BEFORE you start working.”
“Kiss my ass Falcon.” Nellie yelled from her office—mission complete.
I chucked the boot box on a chair and got out Reed’s file. I took out her paperwork and asked her for her driver’s license and social security card so I could copy them for Nellie’s records. She pulled them from a small wallet in her back pocket and when I came back she had only filled out her name.
“Is everything ok,” I asked.
“Um, Nellie said that she would help me, I mean I don’t really,” She blew out a breath and her bottom lip pouted out with it.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that you and Nellie had an arrangement. Hold on.”
I walked to Nellie’s office and she was stuffing her face with my mom’s cheesecake. “Can you come here a sec?” I nodded my head towards my office.
She got up and followed me to my office where Reed now sat with her forehead on the desk in front of her. Nellie apparently knew what was going on immediately.
“Oh, Reed, I’m sorry, crap, I forgot. Falcon, can she use this address as her address since she’s about to move and doesn’t know her new address?” Nellie was the most pathetic liar in the history of all perjurers. Her left eye twitched a little bit when she lied. “Um, no, sorry, she can’t have the same address as the place of employment.”
Nellie turned her squinty eyes on me in challenge. And then they turned pleading, begging me to let it go.
“Look, I’ll just jot my address down and you can use it until we know your new one, ok? No big deal.” I got a sticky note and wrote my address down and placed it in front of Reed. She nodded and continued writing again. I mouthed to Nellie,
You will explain later.
She gave me a big, fake smile and a double thumbs-up and tip-toed out.
Reed finished filling out her paperwork, took her license and social security card and put them back in her tiny wallet.
“Is that everything you need?” Her voice was whispery and small.
“Yes, I think so. Do you want a paper check or do you want it direct deposited?”
“I don’t really have a bank account.”
“Ok, no problem. I can write you a check and then cash it here.”
“Thank you.” She got up and walked soundlessly back to the inventory room.
I picked up the sad looking
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