Chapter 5
Frank
I told Donna that I had found a live-in and she was excited. I was nervous because I'd never even met her, and I was supposed to leave my daughter with her five minutes after we met for the first time. I had checked references, done a background check, but you still never knew about somebody. I was hoping that I didn't get some weird feeling like I had with a couple of the other people I’d talked to. For some reason though, I didn't think that I would.
Donna was just happy that she wouldn't have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and I can't blame her. I didn't even want to get up that early and I was a grown up, which made it clear why I had to do, what I had to do. Donna did not, and she was getting sick of it very quickly.
It was the last week of school, so at least today they wouldn’t be around each other all day. I figured that I was going to find out today if Ashley was going to work. I had a feeling that it would, backed up with no credible evidence, but maybe it was just a positivity me that was trying to show through.
When I went to bed at night, it was the first time in a long time that I went to sleep right away. I was no longer worried about what was going to happen. It was all that I'd worried about it since Maria had left, everything else had been pushed to the back of my head. The things that I couldn’t let go of. Before this night, this one blissful night ,I didn't think of any of it. All I thought about was the next day and the fact that I didn't have to harass Donna at five o'clock in the morning to get up. It killed me every time I had to do it.
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Just because Donna didn't have to get up that early, didn't mean that I didn’t have to, but at least I got an extra half an hour in the morning to sleep. Not having to get her up and make her pop tart and take her to nursery, I was going to be able to get just a little bit more sleep anyways. But of course, I was so used to getting up so early that my body woke up before the alarm clock went off anyways.
When I heard the doorbell go off at six in the morning, I rushed to the door because I didn't want it to wake Donna up. Of course, me shaking her and saying her name over and over again didn't seem to do the trick, so hopefully I was safe.
It was at that time that I had a toothbrush in my mouth and I was holding it between my teeth as I open the door. The paper was in my hand, I was trying to read up on the main headlines before I took off to work. Not only was I supposed to do my job and everything else that it entailed, but I was also supposed to go out with clients and I had to have something to talk about.
I dropped the toothbrush out of my mouth when I finally opened the door. Ashley was not at all what I expected, especially since the last time that I had interviewed somebody, they were over sixty years old. Ashley was young, beautiful, and not at all what I’d imagined coming over.
She had this weird look on her face, obviously because I had just dropped the toothbrush out of my mouth and I probably look like an idiot. All I could hope for at this point was that I didn't have toothpaste foamed up around me like I had rabies.
“Hi, Frank, right?”
I bent down to pick up the toothbrush and I had a wet toothbrush and a newspaper, so I couldn't really shake the hand that was offered out. Instead I just nodded my head inside and opened the door a little wider so that she would follow. I had to go wash this off of my face, rinse my mouth and then I could speak to her. I don't know what I was thinking when I answered the door that way.
I knew what I was thinking though, I didn't figure there was going to be some hot blonde at my door at six o'clock in the morning. She had sounded so mature on the phone, but the girl in front of me looked like a party girl. I was confused, and I wasn't sure which way to go with this.
After I got in the bathroom and rinsed my mouth out, threw the toothbrush away and set the paper down, I went out to the dining room where she was standing. She looked awkward and I could see her eyes were looking around the house. At this point, she could be casing the place for her boyfriend for all I knew. I was starting to see how little I knew about Ashley when my mind started working. I didn't get a bad vibe from her, but at the moment all I could really recognizing myself, was that I was horny as hell and I didn't know how to talk to her. What was I supposed to say?
“Sorry about that. Guess I should have finished before I answered the door.”
“It’s no problem, really. It is really early and I'm surprise that you are as together as you are. I didn't even have time to brush my hair before I left this morning.”
I don't know if she was just humble bragging or not, because she was gorgeous. Her hair was long, and it hung down midways on her upper arm, and while it was messy a little bit, it just made her look like she had just gotten out of bed the way she looked. That for some reason, was even harder on my system, then a made up girl on the street.
“You look fine. Although I'm sure you know that. Did you bring your things?”
Ashley told me that she did, but then she revealed that she wasn't sure how this was going to go, so she’d left them in the car.
“You know, if this was something super weird and there wasn't even a kid or something or you came to the door in a diaper, I wanted to make sure I could make my get-away pretty quickly.”
What she said, threw me off, but I could imagine that there probably was situations where that would happen. I may look strange, a single dad looking for I live-in nanny for my daughter. Considering the way she looked, I could imagine that she would have to worry about that. In a college town, there really was no telling who a person was going to come across.
“Well, I assure you that I'm not going to wear any diapers anytime soon, so my daughter is upstairs. She is real and will have to be woken up at seven thirty so that she can get to school. I think she is ecstatic not to go to nursery before school. It was usually just her there that early and she was always bored. She likes omelets in the morning, they are her favorite. Everything you need is there in the kitchen, but feel free to call up the grocer down on eleventh. They will bring you whatever you need, just order it online.”
It was a lot to take on, but I was blabbing to get the idea of where her mind went, out. She was thinking that it could be sexual, so of course, I was looking her up and down like she was sex on a stick and I couldn’t help myself, no matter how badly I wanted to.
She must have been able to tell I was nervous, because she giggled at me a little bit.
“I’m going to go grab my bags. What time do you leave in the mornings and what time will you want dinner when you get home?”
I hadn’t even thought about that, was that on the table?
“I never know. I can always just heat something up. I assure you that it will be better than what I can come up with or I can order at the office.”
“Good enough. I think this is going to work out just fine, Frank.”
I nodded my head and agreed. I sure the hell hoped so. All I had to do was not screw it up by drooling all over her. I didn’t want to scare her off, but I was dumbstruck as I walked out the house. What the hell was happening? This all seemed too good to be true.