Chapter 47: Operation First Date - Marcus

I make my way down the stairs and keep my eyes open hoping to find a few particular familiar faces. I wander around the packhouse until I end up in what looks like an entertainment room. It’s massive with a large black sectional with a black coffee table facing a large plasma screen TV on the left-hand wall. There are beanbag chairs, boxes with toys, an air hockey table, a pool table with a scoreboard on the right-hand wall next to a dartboard. Shelves that flank the door are filled with books and movies and there is are large sliding glass doors that make up the entire back wall. I see the people I’m looking for sitting on the couch laughing, so I walk over to them.

“Hey, I hope I’m not interrupting,” I say while in fact interrupting them. Who I now know to be Evalyn looks up and gives me a wide smile, so I guess my balls are safe for now.

“Marcus! Hi. Oh, this is Mei, Chris’s animai and my sister-in-law,” she says proudly making Mei blush. “And Eric who is Vitali’s