MARSHALL APARTMENT
If she weren't so desperate to find
Alex, she wouldn't be knocking.
Courtney flew into the building with
a pulsing momentum, up the stairs when the elevator was in use, and down
the hall to the Marshalls' door. But now that she is standing in front
of it, doubt has chosen to tease her boldly.
She can hear Alex's mother in there
with some man, talking rather loudly. After what happened with Sally and
Don, Courtney would prefer not to face Alex's mother, but desperate times
call for desperate measures.
She raises her hand to deliver three
firm knocks.
"Who is it?" comes the call from
inside.
Her mouth dry, Courtney takes longer
than she would have imagined possible to respond, and every instant of
it is nerve-wracking. "Courtney. Courtney Chase!" she manages to yell back.
"Oh," comes Sally's startled reply.
A second later the door bursts open, Sally's grinning face right up in
the doorway. "Courtney, hi. You're looking for Alex?"
"Mm-hmm."
"He went to the park, I think," Sally
says. "With a friend. They headed over there not too long ago."
"All right," Courtney says, thanks.
The door doesn't close right away, and she spies an older man lingering
over Sally's shoulder.
"I'll head on over there," she says,
not quite taking her eyes off of the man. There's something strange --
unsettling -- about the way he is watching her. "Thanks," she adds quickly,
raising a hand in a hurried goodbye wave.
"Nice-lookin' girl," Stan says as
Sally shuts the door. "She got something going on with your son?"
"I don't think so," Sally answers.
Her shoulders shrug slightly. It isn't an issue to which she has given
much thought. "She's my ex-husband's daughter, actually."
"Ex-husband?"
"Complicated story. I'll explain
some other time." A playful grin curls Sally's lips and wipes the seriousness
from her face.
"Sounds good to me," Stan says, and
the matter is forgotten as they reach for each other.
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