Page 148 of Rock Chick Rescue

“What are you going to do?” Indy asked.

I looked at her. “I have no idea, but I’ll think of something. The only thing I know I’mnotgoing to do is nothing.”

She looked at me for a beat and then she smiled.

* * *

It wasclose to noon when the bell went over the door and Mom and Blanca walked in.

“Great, Tex, here she is,” I said to Tex. “Now you can meet my mom.”

Tex looked up and across the store.

Then his face froze. “Un-unh,” he muttered.

“Hey, dollface,” Mom called.

I smiled and waved at Mom and Blanca, but turned to Tex.

“What do you mean, ‘un-unh?’” I whispered frantically.

Tex was still frozen.

Mom made it to the coffee counter and she gave him her majorette smile.

“You must be Tex,” she said.

He made a kind of guttural noise, grabbed my arm and marched me out from behind the counter. He then frog-legged me to Indy, who he also grabbed by the arm, and he shoved us down the aisle of books turning into fiction, the M-N-O section. Then he stopped and glared at me.

“You didn’t tell me she was pretty,” he accused.

I looked at Indy. Indy looked at me.

“Give me your phone, woman,” Tex said to Indy.

She handed over her phone. He flipped it open, started to push buttons at random and it started beeping alarmingly.

Indy snatched the phone out of his hand.

“Who do you want to call?” she asked.

“Chavez. Get me Chavez.”

Indy scrolled down her phonebook and hit Eddie’s number. Tex seized the phone from her hand and put it to her ear.

“Chavez?” Pause. “We got a problem.”

He walked down the aisle and muttered something.

I looked to Indy. She was smiling. I smiled back.

“Uh-huh,” he said, nodding. “Uh-huh,” he said again, still nodding. There was a pause, “Fuck no!” This was an explosion and I jumped. Then, “Right.” Then he threw the phone back at Indy who caught it and flipped it shut.

He looked at me. “All right, Loopy Loo. Let’s go meet your mother.”

We walked back to the front of the store, and I couldn’t help it, I was near to laughing.

Tex thought my mom was pretty.

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