Installment #29 Meg

Meg let her computer boot up as she changed into her pajamas.  It had been a long day.  A long and completely wasted day.  She had left home this morning thinking that maybe tonight she would be in Eldon’s arms, but that had not happened.  A wasted trip to Denver and a long lonely drive home.  Daisy and Elvira were happy to see her and that cheered her up a little.  They were such simple creatures.  She would let them stay out of the crates until she finished her computer work
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Forty-eight emails.  She scanned the list and nothing from redranger.  Well, she was not going to write him.  He had been the one who did not show up and he owed her an apology at the very least.  She answered 6 questions.  She had sold 8 items so she printed out the paypal receipts, deleted the Item sold and  copies of  the pay for your items.  The remaining 18 were mostly advertisements that had escaped the Spam filter and a few newsletters and 3 forwards that “You have to read this it is really funny!”  They weren’t.

She closed her email and put the computer into the sleep mode and stood and pushed her chair into the desk.  She  got the dog treats and walked to the crates .  The dogs took their bribes and ran into the crates to devour them. Meg looked at her big lonely bed and for the first time in a very long time she felt totally and completely alone.  She had never met Eldon, the redranger, but she missed him.  She felt that a very vital piece of Meg Paker was missing.  She switched on the television knowing full well she would not sleep this night.  Too bad Johnny Carson was not on anymore.  He had always made her laugh.  The television was programmed to turn off after one hour if she did not tap the action button.  Saved energy that way.  She watched the end of CSI and then burrowed into the big lonely bed as the weather man started pointing at different low fronts.

She did not get the details of the week ahead as her head nodded and when the perky little blonde announced that the Architect who was coming to Denver to add his expertise to the new addition at Invesco Field had left Brattleboro, Vermont, arrived in Denver and then disappeared into thin air,she heard not a word.  Her ears were deaf and her body completely relaxed.  Had she been awake she might have made the connection between Jeffery Eldon Purcell and the redranger, but she was not.  She was dreaming of a tall dark stranger who was eluding her even in her dreams.