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**Ollie** · (This post was last modified: 16-12-2014 07:04 AM by Ollie.)

Chp. 3: HandyCandy

It was a pretty early morning and I had Trisha over, trying to explain what had happened almost a week ago with that creepy Carlos guy.
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Currently the house was a mess, the kitchen and the bathroom sink were broken.
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While chatting away to Trish, mom decided to walk in.
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"Back from church, huh?" I turned to say. "Wait who's this?"

Mom sat down beside us.
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"Jen, I'm sick of seeing you alone-"
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"Oh gosh," I rolled my eyes.
"Don't be rude, he's one of the best guys in Church," Gloria continued. "He has the sweetest voice, and sings in the choir."

"Impressive," I said sarcastically. "What's your name boy?"
"Zachary-Zachary Dejesus ma'am," he said in this strange posh way.
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Trish couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

"So what do you do for work?" I inquired, trying not to laugh.
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"I mainly do stuff around the church, on my way to being a priest," he mentioned with an excited look.
"Cool," I continued my sarcasm.
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"He's a keeper, Jen," Trisha added with a wink. "Exchange numbers."
"Okay, okay, What's ya number, Zach?" I asked.
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"I'll give you mine, if you give me yours-fair?"
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"Sure thing," I said coming up with a random number in my head.
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After a bit more chatting, Zachary finally announced, "Well I'm off, I'll ring you, or you ring me? and we'll go out sometime?"
"Okay," I smiled. "Bye."
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"Like that's gonna happen," I whispered to Trisha and we began to crack up laughing.
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"What was all that about?! Why are you laughing?" My mother demanded to know. "Jennifer you need to stop living in a fantasy world, you need to grow up and settle down. Do you really want to die alone like me?! Believe me you do not. It's breaking my heart to know my own child is out every night partying, doing god knows what for work and may never mature enough to know the true joys of life and love. I'm dying Jennifer."
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The room fell dead silent.
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"I called up a handyman earlier to try and fix our sinks-you better be nice," Gloria instructed.
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By now it was late afternoon and Trisha had to head off for work.
With a knock on the door I noticed the handyman and I froze in shock, he just... wow, I just couldn't believe it, despite his tacky clothes he seemed to look so good, I couldn't help but stare before opening the door.
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After showing him the problem areas got straight to work.
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After he was finished I offered him to stay a little longer for a drink and he accepted.
"So I never did catch your name, I'm Jennifer you are...?" I started.
"Xavier," He charmed. "I'm a bit of an athlete for for my career, I just do handyman stuff on the side and enjoy woodworking as a hobby, what do you do?"
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"Not nearly as much as you do," I replied. "I owed a few favors to people who lets just say aren't in the most legal degree of work, so that's pretty much my job, they give me enough money to pay the bills and put food on the table."
"Sounds rough."
"You bet, I pretty much hit the town every couple of nights with my friend, Trisha, we like to go out a lot."
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We were having a blast talking about all kinds of things.
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Finally he asked, "Mind if I grab your phone number, I think it'd be great if we could go out sometime."
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"S... Sure-Sounds great!"
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