Tie is a problem, said Lee.
I know, said Anna.
Do you think we need to request that someone be assigned to help us? asked Anna.
You know what they’ll say, she’s just middle class white girl – even if she does live in Jo’burg, do you really think that we can justify that three angels be assigned to her? replied Lee.
They’d say we are incompetent, Anna completed Lee’s thought and together they sighed.
Looking down on her sleeping from where they were floating just above her bed, you‘d never think that one girl could walk straight into so many dangerous situations? Who elopes with Navy Captains twice their age anymore? He wasn’t even rich…bloody romantics! He could have done some horrible things to her; she didn’t know him from Adam. But crisis averted; one very random trip to Switzerland courtesy of an estranged uncle opened her eyes to possibilities in the world. And she left.
For the past few weeks Tie had been driving without her contact lenses, tomorrow she has a trip to Pretoria planned…and she’s not going to see that truck in time. How will her angels keep her from going? It’s urgent – the advocate has to be in court next week and Tie is determined to get his brief to him come hell or high water. But if the angels don’t do something a very big truck is definitely coming.
The next morning a worried couple of angels watch ed Tie as she ran back and forth, up and down her office, getting ready to leave for Pretoria. Lee turned to Anna: I have an idea but it could be tricky.
Anna nodded, going against her better judgment (tricky means dangerous when it comes to Lee…she wonders about him sometimes) but then almost dead is better than dead, isn’t it? Well according to the living anyway.
Tie leaves the office and stops at the lift where a man is already waiting.
“Hey baby” says the stranger and in a flip decision she skips the lift and heads for the stairs at a fast pace. Down to the first landing she skips and as she turns to go down the next flight Lee, waiting on the landing gives her a little push. Her shoes, as Lee knows, are very slippery and both feet fly out underneath her – documents and limbs are flying but in it all Anna manages to catch her that she fell exactly on the bone of her lower back.
That’s gotta be sore, said Anna as they watched a dazed Tie recover.
Well that was the idea, said Lee. She‘s not crying though, hope it’s sore enough.
She’s in shock – give her a minute, she’ll be crying fountains.
And I did.
Yes I did actually fall down the stairs and the fall put my whole week into a blender…I’m hoping, for no reason that I can explain, that there was a point to falling down the stairs. So I wrote this and I felt better!
Also, I’ve had the epiphany that controlling my spending is not the answer – it’s by lack of income! So I’m working on that instead – slim ne?
