Page 55 of Yolo

I missed seeing her every day.

I knew Boss missed seeing her every day.

He looked at the door longingly every morning, as if he could stare at it and it might morph him back out to the balcony where she would slip him pieces of bacon from the balcony below him.

So of course, when I saw her with a brick in her hand, across the parking lot from the car that I was in, at first I thought I was seeing things.

But then the woman lifted up the brick and brought it down hard on the passenger window.

My mouth fell open as she did it again and again, eventually breaking through the glass.

“What the hell?” I wondered as I said, “Come on, Boss.”

Boss followed as I loped across the parking lot.

She moved from the passenger window around to the driver’s window and started to go to town on that one next by the time I finally got to her.

“Bindi, stop!”

She didn’t.

“What the hell?” I heard yelled.

Delphine.

The alarm on the cruiser she was breaking into started to sound, yet she didn’t stop.

“Bindi, put the brick down,” I ordered.

She didn’t, instead reaching into the door and searching for the lock.

I caught her hand before she could scrape her hand against some glass and said, “Bindi, what the fuck? Stop!”

She struggled to get away from me, and I held her in place, hard and unforgiving.

“Calm the fuck down!” I ordered.

“Let me go! There’s a dog dying in here!”

I was so stunned that I did let her go.

I heard Delphine arrive just as she unlocked the back door and reached for the back door handle.

I was reaching my hand out to stop her when she got the door open and I saw the dog lying on the seat.

Rufus.

He was lying on the bench seat, barely breathing, and he had vomit all around him.

He was also lathered at the mouth, and my stomach instantly dropped.

“Help me get him out and under the shade,” she urged.

I did, picking the dog up and carrying him to the shade.

“You got a bottle of water?” she asked.

“No,” I grumbled as I placed Rufus down onto the grass underneath the one shady tree in the entire area.

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