The New Girl

Chapter 23

 By 9:15 Donner and Ethan had the cart practically full at the local grocer with BBQ sauce, hamburger meat, buns, corn on the cob, potato salad, a few bags of chips, juices, assortment of fruits and veggie's, coal and lighter fluid. Donner looked at the cart and said, “I think we got everything.” Ethan nodded and replied, “If we don't I guess we're just out of luck.” They headed to the cashier, rang everything up, payed then headed for the car. Just as they were loading everything into the car Heather pulled up in her little black VW with it's pink bra. Donner looked at Ethan and Ethan looked at Donner and mumbled, “Shit.” Heather got out of her car and said, “Morning boy's, how are you today?”

Ethan got in the car as Donner said, “We're just fine Heather but I think you forgot a small detail.” Heather looked at him quizzically. Then Donner finished, “Your supposed to stay 1,000 feet away from Ethan. Now I could run you in right now for violating that warrant but I've really got better things to do. So I'll do you a favor and let you go with a warning but if it happens again I won't be so nice.” With that said, Donner got into his car and started the engine. Then he and Ethan drove home, leaving Heather there to stare after them.

Heather watched them drive away, then went on in the store where she bought some personal items, matches and lighter fluid. She set her stuff on the cashier counter and the cashier ran everything through except the matches and lighter fluid. When she got to those she picked them up and said, “Sorry Heather, can't sale you these.” Heather looked at the lady stunned then asked, “Why the hell not?” The cashier held up a sheet of paper for Heather to see. The sheet of paper had her picture and name on it saying “Do Not sale these items to this person and it had the list of items, lighters, lighter fluid, matches, and anything else that would assist in starting a fire. Heather was furious. Who the hell do these people think they are?, she thought as she stormed out of the store.

Heather knew one thing, Donner and everyone else who had anything to do with this was going to pay if it were the last thing she did. Heather got in her car and called Tessa, waited for her to pick up then said, “I'll be at your house in 5mins, be ready.” She then hung up her phone before Tessa had time to say anything. Before she got even a half mile from the store sirens started blaring behind her. She looked in her rear view mirror and saw a cop right behind her signaling for her to pull over. She did and Officer Brad Shelly got out of his car and started walking towards her car. When he got to her car he said, “License and registration please.” Heather looked at him and whined, “What for? What did I do?” “Miss Shilling, you were going 15 miles over the speed limit. Now could you please get me your license and registration please. She handed him both.

He took them and said, “Set tight and I'll be right back.” While she waited impatiently she called Tessa again to let her know she would be a little later then she had said and told her what was going on. When she seen Officer Shelly returning to her car she hung up on Tessa. Officer Shelly handed her her license and registration plus a ticket for speeding. Heather grabbed them out of his hand and grumbled, “Can I leave now?” Shelly smiled at her and said, “Yes ma'am you may but don't let me catch you speeding again.” She watched him get back in his cruiser and thought, Well Officer Shelly you just got on my shit list too, asshole. Then she pulled back out on the road and headed towards Tessa's house once again.

Donner and Ethan got home and started setting everything up for the little BBQ. Donner pulled his grill out on the deck away from the house, cleaned it and got it ready to go. While he was doing that Sugar jumped up and took off running towards the beach, letting him know that he must have heard Koda in the distance and sure enough she and Koda came running towards the deck. Donner bent down to pet and welcome Koda and as he looked up he seen Andrea and Lyric walking towards the deck. They both were carrying container and smiled at him as they walked up. “Hey, glad you guys could make it but you didn't have to bring anything,” Donner said and pointed towards the containers. Andrea smiled at him and said, “It wasn't a problem, we just brought my homemade cranberry raisin oatmeal cookies and some fruit.”