When a woman moves into the sleepy town, it rouses everyone's tongues to start wagging. She is strange and distant in her manner. Tia Frost is blissfully unaware of the townsfolk's discomfort with her. With Burt at her side, she wonders about the wo...
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"Three days of paperwork and two days of moving sheep out the road, now I'm here fixing this bloody sink!" I growled at it.
"You know we could just call a plumber." Roland said in that tone he used to tell me he was right, without saying it.
"At this point, I would have to hand back my masculinity if I don't fix it." Roland doubled over laughing. "Stop laughing and hand me that PTFE tape."
He kept laughing as he handed me the tape. I fought with the pipe until it was back in place. "Alright try it now."
Roland turned the tap on and for a wonder, I didn't get wet. "You could make one of those how many men does it take jokes about this." Roland said as I slid out from under the sink.
"One and a Roland."
He laughed again harder than before. "You're only saying that because I'm gay." He said in the campest voice he could do.
"I'm saying that because when it started leaking you stood on a chair and squealed."
He waved his hand at me. "True, but you have to admit I make a good housewife."
It was my turn to laugh. "Yes, better than my ex-wife."
"Well that's not hard, your wife was fat and lazy..."
The phone rang making him jump. "I bet that is work."
"Do you get a day off?" Roland asked already walking to the phone. "Hello?... that sounds serious... of course, I'll bring him in right away. See you there, bye." He hung up the phone and I was already washing up to get changed.
"What's happening?"
"It was James he says it's all hands on deck. He wouldn't say anything else."
I pulled my shirt on. "Last time they did this it was for a tractor that had turned its trailer over on the main road."
"Janna was laughing when she called about that. James sounded serious."
I tied my shoelaces and grabbed my keys. "James is always serious. Let's go."
We got in Roland's car and drove to the station. He followed me in and I was shocked to see everyone was there, even the volunteers.
The chief saw me over the heads of everyone else and cleared his throat making the room go silent. "Right now everyone is here I will issue the job assignments. Volunteers you are in charge of the information gathering. You going door to door asking people where they were over the last two days. Make sure the information is backed up with evidence!"
The volunteers started to filter out with Janna standing at the door handing out fresh notebooks and extra pens. When the last of them filtered out. The chief spoke again. "Now James you're in charge of blocking off the road and waiting for the other team." James grabbed his hat and walked out of the station leaving me and Roland.
