Angeline:What security cams?
Me:The ones all over the house.
Angeline:You have cameras all over your house? (Mind blown emoji.)
Okay; she’d used an emoji. So… she wanted me to know that she was blown away by that information, rather than mad?
Which encouraged me to keep going.
Me:In almost every room. I saw you when you came over to clean. I saw you coming upstairs. (Two eyeballs emoji.)
Angeline:For real? (Dead emoji.)
Hmm. Did that mean “I’m dead” like “I’m astonished”… or did she now want me dead?
Me:I was watching you on my phone. (Happy tears emoji.)
Angeline:When I walked in on you naked?? (Scream of horror emoji.)
Me:Yes.
Angeline:You could’ve put some pants on. (Face plant emoji.)
Me:I could’ve. But then you wouldn’t have seen me naked. (Drooling emoji. Eggplant emoji.)
Angeline:(Angry swearing face emoji.)
Shit.
Her name popped up as my phone rang and I answered casually. “Ms. Delacroix. What can I do for you this evening?”
“Where are you?” she demanded.
“On the patio off my bedroom. Naked and slightly high.”
“That emoji thing was stupid. Were you saying I was drooling because I saw you naked, or wereyoudrooling because I saw you naked?”
“Does it matter?”
“Yes.”
“Can’t it be both?”
“No. Maybe. I don’t know.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m annoyed.”
“About what?”
“Your stupid games.”
“I’m not playing games. I’m trying to talk to you. You don’t make it easy.”
She huffed a little and went silent.
“What are you thinking?”
