Tuesday Tales - Grumpy

 

Welcome to Tuesday Tales! This week's word prompt is “grumpy”. We are back with Dani in my new Sci-Fi story. 

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The trip to the hardware store was thankfully eventful. It wasn’t like Dani expected Ezra to be around every corner, even though to Dani he seemed to be. She was waiting for him to pop out at every corner, for the ghosty souls that sprung out from Grarkiel to attack her while she was defenseless. 

Her head was on a swivel at the bus transfer spot downtown near the library. She searched the crowds that rushed past her for that familiar face that she cared for and that terrified her all at the same time. 

She almost forgot how effortless the exchange of the parts was. The associate that helped her was super friendly and escorted her to what her dad told her to buy. As she handled the galvanized metal, concern struck her heart like a brick. How was she going to wield this thing?

She never saw Ezra on either trips both to the hardware store and back to the apartment. She unlocked the door, shoved it open then closed and locked it behind her. She set down the bag, taking the parts out and setting them on the coffee table. Picking up her laptop, she opened the top to video chat her father again. She pointed at the plant that Bobo hid behind before. “Please?”

There was a rustle in her head than that familiar pressure. The little alien popped out of her ear. Bobos’s legs wobbled as he stomped to where she directed. 

“Oh, don’t be so grumpy,” she teased.

The balloon figure spun at her. “I don’t want to spend my whole night behind a bunch of leaves.”

Dani scrolled across the screen until she found the icon for her browser. She clicked on it then entered the address for the video chat platform. “You won’t. Once I finish this, my call will be over and you can come out.”

“Fine.”