ODDS OF LOVE : SEASON TEN

Episode 162

Later that night Alfred was already regretting going on the date with Marco Martinez from the dating app Harts and Flowers. First there was tension at home. His stepfather was worried about the fact that Skip Sands was on the run after another apparent rape according to DuBuis.  The rape of the very former assistant state's  attorney who had enabled him to go free essentially. It was amazing and frightening really. Andrew was also concerned over the fact that Nigel was still feeling sick with the cold that was making his lupus react even worse. And his mother was oddly quiet herself. She seemed like she was keeping a secret but that wasn't possible. His mother didn't keep secrets. Not major ones anyway. No. That had been his father. They both were choosing to stay home tonight themselves instead of working at the restaurant as cook and piano player.

Second when Marco had picked him up there was immediate trouble because his Cherokee Jeep was so high up for him he couldn't get in the passenger seat by himself. He had been about to recommend them taking an Uber when the man had just picked him up and deposited him in the passenger seat like he was a sack of food or something. Then he tossed his walker in the back carelessly. It made him feel very vulnerable. In the passenger seat he had been so aware of how helpless he felt. If this man he barely knew wanted to hurt him there was very little he could do to defend himself. If he opened the door and fell out to get away he would just hurt himself. And he didn't have Stan. Or his cane. All he could do was hope the man was not another Skip Sands.

Third Marco was a bit abrupt and rude. In the restaurant after they were seated by the also rude wheelchair bound host Hank and were ordering their meals the man had did something that he hated with a passion. Even Scott never did this. Marco actually ordered for him. Alfred had wanted a steak and Marco changed it to a chef salad saying that " people with his issues should eat more healthy". Of course Marco got himself a steak. And when Alfred had wanted to order a red wine Marco had poo pooed that too. Because " people like him should not be polluting their systems with alcohol". Marco ordered him water and he himself got a vodka. Alfred would have protested like his mother had taught him but tonight he felt too tired to make a fuss so he let it go.

Finally he saw something that put him in a deep depression type slump almost. As they waited for their meals and Marco droned on endlessly about his prominent position at the White House as house counsel Alfred's bored eyes drifted around the crowded restaurant until they noticed two more guests arrive.

Gerald HighTower and Matilda Swan.  And it looked like Gerald was actually having fun as he laughed at a joke she was telling. And his big broad hand was currently resting on her shoulder as he pulled out her chair for her at their table across the room.

Yeah, he thought as his eyes miserably gazed at the headmaster, this night was a total loss.