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“It’s only for a couple more months, then I’ll be able to move back. My training is almost finished out here, and I’ll be there before you know it.” She paused. “You do know that you could leave your house once in a while and meet other people.”
“I’m not interested.”
“Seriously, Lex, you have to get over this and get a life. I swear when I get back there, I am not going to let you sit in your apartment any longer. I’m going to drag you out every night so that you are doing things.”
I sighed, not having any words to explain just how frustrated and bored I was with my life. “Look, I gotta go. I’ll talk to you later.”
“Aren’t you going to thank me for your gifts?”
“No, I’m not.”
“Spoilsport! I’ll see you tomorrow night, and I want to know what you thought of them. Take them out of the package and use them.”
“Goodbye, Clare.”
She said goodbye, and we hung up. I sat for a while staring at the wall. Maybe she was right, and I needed to get out of the house and do something. My eyes slipped over to the box on the counter, and the scene outside my apartment door came back to me.
What were the odds that two Alex Millers lived in the same building? As I got up and went back to the box, I was glad that it hadn’t been opened by my elderly neighbor. Oh, poor Connie would have probably had a heart attack if she even knew what they were.
I stared into the box and pulled out the rabbit slowly. Damn, the sucker was bright pink and huge. I retrieved scissors from the kitchen and cut the clear packaging away. After I pulled it out, I hit the power button, and a little orange light came on. I pushed one of the buttons, and it began to vibrate wildly in my hands.
I hurriedly tried to turn it off but hit it to the next level. “Holy crap!” I finally got it turned off and tossed it like a hot potato into the box. “There is no way I am going to use that thing!”
