#WIPpet Wednesday - Alumni: Disappointed

It's WIPpet Wednesday... :)

Brief Context
This is another snippet from Alumni (HBTC #8). At the end of Reunions (HBTC #7), Josh was stuck in the loft, having gone up there to investigate some psychic tools Dan had discovered earlier. In this snippet, he’s still sitting on the lip of the loft hatch, and he’s accepted he’s not getting down on his own.

WIPpet Maths for Wednesday 17th October
17 - 10 = 7
This is from p61 of my manuscript.
6 + 1 = 7
(Yes, I know it’s really convoluted…)

And the WIPpet Snippet:
“Mr. Sandison. Gordon Baines here.”

Oh, thank all that is… “Hey, Gordon. Thanks for returning my call. I was…erm…wondering if, perchance, you still have a set of keys to the building?”

“Keys to the building…” Baines sucked his teeth, the noise crackly and distorted against Josh’s ear. He moved the phone away and continued listening on loud speaker. “I might be wrong, but I think I only had the two sets I gave to you. Have you lost them?”

“Erm… Not lost them, as such, more…I’m locked in.”

“Oh? I had the locks checked before I put the building on the market.”

“Yes, and I’m sure the locks are all working fine.”

“Right, so what exactly do you mean by locked in?”

“I, erm… It’s complicated.” It always worked when George said it. “Can you help me or not?” Josh was being bolshy, but he’d apologise later. Anything to get him out of his predicament.

“If I’ve got them, they’ll be in the safe. I’ll pop and have a look and call you straight back.”

“It’s OK, I’ll wait on the—agh! The bloody bleep again! Please, please have another set.”

Josh wasn’t optimistic—about anything, ever, but particularly on this occasion—thus he had no justification for being so utterly disappointed when Gordon called back and confirmed the only two sets of keys to the first floor of the building were, as he’d said, in Josh’s possession. Or, in fact, several feet downwards and to the left of his possession.

“Damn it!”

Back to his contacts, no more horsing around. He hit the call button.

* * * * *

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Thanks for reading
Deb x

Comments

  1. Fallon11:12 am

    'Josh wasn’t optimistic—about anything, ever, but particularly on this occasion' HaHa Love this.

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    1. Debbie McGowan4:42 pm

      :D I've missed writing Josh. He's such...fun? LOL

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  2. jlgfellers3:45 am

    This is one heck of a predicament.

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  3. Anne Gmason10:24 pm

    I feel like this is something I would have somehow done to myself.

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