Alex One: House Sitting for a Friend

Sorry, this is a little rough. I've tried expanding the original
version but ... i dunno. Anyways this should be a continuing series
of some sort.



Alex One: House Sitting for a Friend.
By Alex Shouse.

My friend Karen had worked her way through a somewhat bitter
separation and had decided to cash in some vacation time from work
to take a little trip to 'get it all out of my head' as she said.
so she had asked me to House Sit while she was away for 2 weeks.
obviously not having anything else to do, and not particularly
happy with my present living situation, I jumped at the chance for
my own personal vacation...

Chapter One - only 2 days.


Since I didn't live that far from her house I didn't lug a lot
of my stuff with me, just the basics, couple changes of clothes
and some books/DVD's that I'd put off watching/reading for some
reason. So at 9:30 Monday morning I pressed the bell and was
almost immediately swept up into the personal whirlwind that was
Karen with a huge load taken off her mind. To say she was
noticeably happy would have been an understatement. I could barely
understand a word she was saying as she gave me a quick tour of
the place - where I'd been many times before, pointing out this,
that and the other thing. Emergency phone number list, main water
shutoff valve, various other main off switches, etc. I just sort
of let myself get swept along.

Karen herself is about my height (actually slightly taller) at
5'6", with short black hair, and blue eyes. She has a very nice
smile and an infectious laugh. We had met years ago working
overnights at a replenishment warehouse for an online retailer,
and had hit it off. I had romantic leanings toward her but had
never had the guts to do anything while we worked together, and
when she got a better paying job in the actual day time, our
contact dropped pretty severely. It wasn't long after that she'd
met Dave - the guy she just separated from.