giving it away

She knew that Quest was- one weird dude as her brother, Kevin, so amply put it when she tried to tell him about it. He had mostly shrugged as she spoke and recounted the money she had given to him as he stood in her doorway. She had sold off her most of her worldly possession s including a pretty extensive CD collection and shoe collection to boot. She grinned at her lame joke; Kevin had rolled his eyes as he stood there with the cash in his hand. She had gotten the money together and paid off bills and was left with a tidy sum of it, then decided she might as well give it to him.

                He had laughed nervously and actually looked embarrassed as she told him that she loved him and would miss him dearly. He took her money but she could tell that he didn’t believe a word of what she had said. He never had believed any of what she had said in the past, still most of her threats had proven to be little more than empty ones and Kevin treated this one like the others. He gave her a lopsided grin and hugged her and told her to come by for a beer sometime and left, recounting the money, all the while shaking his head at his crazy sister.

                She gave some of her CDs to Tom and tried again to explain why but he shook his head in confusion and then asked sheepishly if she would give him her stereo. She had given it to him and most of her movies. The Television she gave to his wife Anne along with a DVD player with strict instruction to ration access in exchange for house and yard work. Anne had smiled at the thought and Tom had look kind of sick at the thought of what was surely coming.

                Vanessa invited Sally over for a meal which they ate at her kitchen bar since most of the furniture was gone by that point and presented the woman with just about all of her jewelry and makeup. Sally had giggled and laughed and tried on several pieces before the suspicion painted itself on her face and she had given Vanessa with a hard look.

                “What’s going on?”

                “I am going away for a long time, Sally.”

                “Right.”

                “No, I mean it where I am going there won’t be much use or need for the makeup and jewelry.”

                “Uh-huh.”

                “You can take whatever business suits you like as well. “

                “Oh.”

                In the end, Sally had taken 6 outfits, 4 pairs of shoes- which she barely fit into, and all the jewelry and the makeup. As she said goodbye she had shook her head, then turned and walked a few steps.

                “Have you given notice yet?”

                “Nope, I was hoping that you would serve notice to the firm for me…please.”

                “Oh, Okay.”

                In the end, Sally agreed to serve the notice in exchange for the jewelry, 4 pairs of shoes, most of the makeup, 2 bottles of Aloe skin moisturizer, 3 CDs of Rascal Flatts and 2 bottles of wine would have been three but they drank most it during the negotiations.