marvella joins a team- act 2 scene 1 edit 1

Marvella joins a team- act 2 scene 1 edit 1

fiction
edward w pritchard

Marvella was dreaming. She was thirteen years old again and Cubby Bates was calling her over and over.

Marvella awoke with a start. The clock was less than one foot from her head on Mother's old night stand. Two AM. Cubby Bates Marvella's junior high boyfriend was on the answering machine. Awake Marvella followed his instructions and hurried to the local Wal Mart.

Cubby greeted Marvella with a short hug. His wife wouldn't like that, but Lois Kosy, now Bates wasn't here.

Cubby was the security guard nights here at Wal Mart. Marvella hadn't seen him in a few years. A very good looking man about thirty was under arrest. He was looking for Marvella and Cubby didn't want to call the local police. Instead when Cubby realized the man was looking for Marvella his first crush he had called Marvella's house, he remembered Marvella's Mother's number by heart.

The man being detained was Tony Fanni a member of Mr.Sophia's group and Marvella's new team mate. Tony was shopping for food to bring to Marvella's house for the meeting tomorrow night when he had been arrested. Arrested, for his own protection. He was dropping piles and piles of one hundred dollar bills on the floor as he tried to pay for two large carts of exotic food at the Wal Mart in Boardman, Ohio. Once the cab driver who had driven Tony from the Cleveland airport to here saw that Marvella had the situation  under control he left, with the five hundred dollar fare and one hundred dollar tip in hand.

Marvella had been listening to Tony crash around the small kitchen of her house at 4:30 AM for two hours. Finally she had enough. She gave her bed to the hyper active young man and insisted he sleep. He slept till four the next afternoon. By then the others had arrived for the meeting and Marvella had found a place in her kitchen for eight kinds of cheese, four kinds of olives and six different kinds of beer that Tony had bought at the Wal Mart.

Rory the other young man on the team arrived next at Marvella's house. He also had been up all night. Running from the Akron Canton airport. Over fifty miles. He wore a small runners back pack and wore a pair of silky shorts. He also was sleeping. In the back hall laying on the hard floor. About six am Marvella threw an Indian blanket over Rory.

Kate the final young member of the team arrived last and Marvella and Kate had been talking for several hours as they cleaned Marvella's kitchen and put away the last of the nine bags of food Tony had brought for the snack for their meeting  tonight at 7PM when Mr. Sophia arrived. Kate was having trouble with her boyfriend and although hyper intelligent Marvella was sad to hear Kate rationalize about her boyfriend Tory. 
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