Chapter 4
Grace got herself a new boyfriend… They met ten days ago on the plane that she took from Krakow back to New York. However, he was sitting in her [assigned] window seat when she boarded the 747, and THAT did not sit well with her!
As it was, she’d already been through HELL with her ex-fiancé Doofus Asswipe, the 3rd, when he abandoned her at the altar—on their wedding day! Then, as well, that she had flown to Krakow: to crack-the-whip on Doofus’s drunken smelly butt, for additionally stealing the expensive, Golden knickknack they had gotten as a WEDDING gift and neglecting her B&B!
At this point, Grace wasn’t about to let THIS 4-foot, 7-inch man steal her newfound joy! She had sold her B&B in Krakow yesterday; her relationship with Doofus was, finished, forever; she now was a happy woman! That is, until Mr. Midget Man over here, in GRACE’S seat, as well had bathed himself in cheap cologne, and was stinking up the whole plane! So, she opened the overhead compartment, stored her Carry-on suitcase, and slammed its door shut! Everyone around her heard that sound and noticed a bad-temper rising as she leaned in, towered over the short man, and voiced: “YOU ARE IN MY SEAT! Move it or lose it!”
Much to her surprise, the Englishman readily obliged Grace!
“Yes, of course, my dear Lady!” He had said, all starry-eyed when he upped from her seat, apologizing to her for temporarily borrowing it, and then gently guided her to occupy it.
Impressed by him, Grace tried to conceal how attracted to him she felt at that moment…! She was shy, you know.
Yeah, she was shy, but she also was gullible as can be!
The two got acquainted with each other on the flight to New York. He introduced himself as William Huntsman and told Grace that he’s a businessman from France, on his way to New York to conduct some promotional conferences. And William learned from Grace that she’s a prolific writer of “Books, Language, Articles, and Blogs”; in other words: that she’s an artist who will “BLAB” about you, globally, if you double-cross her!
They seemed glad to have met. William was charming whilst Grace had been a damsel in distress, her entire life! And before they parted ways at LaGuardia Airport, they made plans to meetup again, for lunch, and dinner, and some moonlight dancing. Plus, he even gave Grace a copy of the painting of himself and his two sisters, which he would be promoting in the upcoming conferences. He wanted Grace to have it and forever remember him, by it!
Well, in LOVE with the idea that she had found love, Grace couldn’t wait to get home from the airport to mount William’s painting on the wall! She even got the portrait of herself and hung it next to William Huntsman’s, just to continue to feel that special closeness to him!
Yes, in that picture Grace is in her wedding dress…to what would’ve been a marriage doomed to fail had she married Doofus Asswipe, the 3rd! But that’s the FANCIEST picture of herself that she could find…and maybe…there’s an omen to it: that would attract a good marriage this time around.
Excited beyond words, Grace invited four of her new acquaintances over to her house for a luncheon, so they can get a look at her new boyfriend! And these women all began phoning each other via Conference Calling:
“Did you hear the latest? Grace got herself a new boyfriend!”
“I know! Can you believe it? Are you going to Grace’s luncheon?”
“I’m undecided. Grace is weird and my time is valuable.”
“I don’t know about you, but Grace scares me!”
“OMG, me too! With that scowling face on her, she even scares grown men too! We shouldn’t have gotten so friendly with her, over at Bingo! She’s an embarrassment!”
“I haven’t RSVP yet.”
“Same here; I never know what Grace is thinking…”
“But we all know what she’s capable of when wronged!”
They all showed up at Grace’s brownstone, …and the four of them filed inwardly like an S string; clutched at the arms in the likes of a linked fence! Grace thought, that’s odd! Nevertheless, they were here to get a look at the “William Huntsman” she’d been referring to; and see the Spinster Grace behave like a schoolgirl, crazy in love with her new… boyfriend?
They all congratulated her, and then ate and ran!
Except now, tongues were wagging all around town: that Grace is retarded! For WILLIAM HUNTSMAN was a well-known PHILANDERER Englishman from the 1800’s, who frequented the Moulin Rouge in France, to hunt for and flirt with women, —and grow his long list of female conquests! And the two women in the portrait weren’t his sisters; they were his unsuspecting prey! They all knew that the painting Grace had bragged about receiving from “William Huntsman” was just that, an antique painting!
But, as is customary with gossipers, in a friendless world: poor ole GRACE would be the last one to know this trash about the charming man she met on the airplane! Up to now, Grace has no idea what she’s gotten herself into with this slick Willie, nor why he hasn’t been answering her many calls! She’s starting to get pissed-off again! Can you blame her?
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