Inevitable | T. Bradford

Thirty-Eight

"That last month was awful."

"Yeah, but now we're out of football season."

Tim pauses. "You're devious."

"Learned from the best Mr. I got shot on the first day."

"Technically, I didn't "I got shot, where are you" first day, and then got shot second day."

"Yeah and that was awful."

"Don't forget, you got shot too."

"I know. Just remind me, huh."

"I have replays of all the games for the last month. So, we're still watching football with dinner tonight."

"Great, I get to barf up my dinner."

"Oh come on. That's dramatic."

"Dramatic is my middle name."

"I thought it was June?"

"I changed it."

"Fitting."

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Tim and Kate escort in a well-dressed young woman, with an attitude.

"So I rolled a stop sign. What's the big deal?"

"No, you ran a red light and a stop sign, you flipped us off, and led us on a medium speed pursuit."

"I was late for an appointment with Orchid. My life coach."

"Well, she's doing a terrible job. Go stand over there."

"Is there anything we can do about this lighting?"

Reluctantly, she goes over to have her mug shot taken, and Kate turns to Tim.

"So, we've had two bets. You "won" the first one. I won the second one."

"By cheating. But go on."

"We're tied."

"Not technically because yours was cheap."

"Sir, what do you think?" Kate turns to Grey.

"What?"

"You okay, sir? Something wrong with the booking slip?" Tim asks

"No. No. What do you need?"

"An umpire. We're tied, correct?"