Welcome back! Today's word prompt is "raid." We return to the First & Ten series and Buddy Carruther's story.
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Buddy couldn’t sleep. He padded downstairs to the kitchen.
His raid on the refrigerator didn’t turn up much. A bottle of champagne, six
pack of beer, dozen eggs. and some old cheese. He found two, chocolate-covered ice cream
bars in the freezer. They had been there a long time. He didn’t care. He put
the kettle on for a cup of chamomile tea and unwrapped a frozen treat.
He straddled a chair and watched the kettle while
he chomped on the pop. A glance at the clock told him it was three. It was dark
outside, the house was still.
The question rolling through his mind, keeping him
from sleeping was about Emmy. How can I
make her quit singing and marry me? After seeing her again, the dim, but
persistent feelings for her in his heart blossomed in full color, pushing out
all other women. The man, who was content to be a love-‘em-and-leave-‘em kinda
guy, had disappeared.
Visions of Sunday mornings with Emmy, reading the paper, brunch,
and making love filled his head.
“How do you tame a wild woman who’s got the world
at her feet?” He said to no one. Buddy shook his head. In the dead silence, a
scratching reverberated like a Velociraptor
trying to break in. Buddy went to the back door and peered out. A whine drew his attention. A rail-thin pug dog,
sitting on his back step, raised its huge eyes to Buddy’s. He stepped back and
let the scruffy, dirty dog in.
“Look at you. You need a bath.” He picked up the
small canine under the belly and hauled it into the bathroom.
When the dog was clean, Buddy boiled up a couple of eggs for the
starving pooch. He gobbled them down then curled up at the wide receiver’s
feet.
“Just what I need, a dog. Damn. I can’t take care
of you. But you can stay tonight.”
Now, if he could find a way to have Emmy
scratching at his door, life would be perfect.
He shook his head.
“Yeah. Good
luck with that.” The dog barked.
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