Heartbreak Hotel

Armed And Ready

Ariana
I go into SIP thinking I an ready to conquer the ebook situation easily. Anastasia guided me through the basics and had me show her what I understood after watching her, but I didn't understand it fully until I got home and did it on my own laptop. I reread her instructions over and over until I was exhausted. The huge problem is is that not everything is built on the same software platform. I soon learned that SIP was working with a different software platform than the customary software that was more expensive and more secure. So I knew the better one, just the right one. Hannah assured me that I could translate it over to theirs easily. Right easily, when it took me all night to learn the other one. I think what dad would say is to just be positive and think that I was able to learn the one Anastasia taught me and now this one as well so the gives me a leg up if they go to using the better software. Hannah has three more trainees and she has been given a time frame in which we need to know how to do our jobs. This is not good at all. I call Anastasia and ask her if she knows the other software platform or platforms and of course she does. She emails the books to buy so I can learn them in my own like she did. Apparently she is busy learning something herself for her job.

Anastasia
I know if I didn't at least try to help Ariana she would cry to dad because I didn't at least help her to find a way to learn how to do something and giving her the names of books on the subjects was what he would consider helping her. He knows if I tell him I am too busy that I am indeed too busy to do anything but tell her where to find the information on it. She can spend her own money to get the books herself. Mine are being used by me and studying them together is not feasible because she would learn and I wouldn't. I would be using all my learning time explaining everything she didn't understand. I finally found what I needed and everything clicked into place and I still have my books for references.

Ariana
I head down to a bookstore that was very close to me so I decided to walk to get the books Anastasia told me to get. An hour later I am holding the most up to date information and books on the softwares for ebooks that are in use today. My arms are loaded with books. I ask if they have a delivery person and they laugh and tell me they go home at five o clock. I decide to call a cab to have him or her help me get the books home. Fifteen minutes later the cab arrives and he glares at me when he learns the address he is taking me to. I ask him to help me carry the books to my apartment for a nice tip. He asks me how much us the tip? Geez I told him a 20.00 tip and he wants thirty after seeing the nice place I live in. But 40.00 later I should have driven Pinkie Leigh to the bookstore. I have him carry them to my door only. He puts them down by the ones I carried and I give him a 50.00 bill and let him keep the change. He was a happy driver when he left. I enter my code and turn my key and go inside and bring my books inside as quickly as I can. I have a neighbor who wants to talk if he sees me in the hallway. So I need to be quick getting into my apartment. I forget to get groceries once again. I dial for delivery for dinner and wait for it to arrive. Where is Anastasia when I need her to cook and shop for me. Now I regret not having her next door to me. I could run over and get her to cook me something. Chinese arrives twenty minutes later. I open the door pay him and grab my food and close and lock my door. I hear a knock at my door and I just know it is the annoying neighbor. I finally get up and it is Jose jr bringing me something I forgot in the move. He brings the three boxes in and sits them down. I didn't tell him that I forgot them on purpose. I told him they are things I didn't want any longer and for good reasons. I leave out it was a guy who I almost married and found out he cheated on me. I found him at Heartbreak Hotel in a room with my ex best friend, they forgot to lock their door and I found them going at it like they were on fire. They didn't notice me holding up my phone getting videos of everything and I mean everything. Her husband divorced her after seeing them and I changed my door locks. I never went to the Heartbreak Hotel before that night and will never go back there. The guy named that place correctly. I tell Jose he can have what us in the boxes and offer him some Chinese food. He tells me he will take care of the boxes and he digs into the food and he helps me move my books to my bookshelf in my office. He bids me goodbye and Carrie's the boxes back on the dolly they were on. I see my lurking neighbor and lean in to kiss Jose on the lips and tell him the guy has been annoying me and he understands the kiss and reaches and pulls me in for a huge hug and kisses me longer for effect. I hear the door slam and we both laugh quietly and I thank him for helping me get rid of the pest.

Jose
I really don't care for Ariana, but Ray asked me to get these boxes to her and I said I would. It turned out not to be such an ordeal. I will need to tell Ray about the neighbor pestering her though even though we put him off for now, guys like don't go away easily. It was a nice kiss, but I have to remember who I am dealing with here. There are things Ray doesn't know about Ariana and we don't want him to know everything she has pulled being an identical twin that caused Anastasia grief. It took a while for Anastasia to see her manipulations and how she used her identity to get herself off things. Anastasia told her finally that if she didn't stop it and straighten things out she would make her pay and in such a way she could never get away with using her identity again. I saw the fear in Ariana's face and knew it would be bad whatever it was.