Chapter 9 #3
The last house on the list wasn’t much to look at either.
It had a pool, but it wasn’t very large and had a slide that took up most of the room in the backyard.
If not for that, it might have been all right.
But the size was only for one person to use at a time, and it wouldn’t have been fun to enjoy. Then there was the house itself.
The woman, or he supposed it could have been the man, collected roosters.
They were all over the house. In the kitchen, they were in the curtains and in the wallpaper.
The little door knobs on the cabinets were roosters of different breeds.
He also noticed that the rugs on the floor were the same pattern of them throughout the house.
He nearly burst out laughing when he saw them in the bathroom.
The toilet bowl was covered in them as well.
Going out to the deck to see about the yard, he could see that there were several of the big birds all over the yard.
He’d hate to think what sort of noise they made when the sun came up in the morning.
“I’m finished for the day.” Rance asked if he still wanted to get a glass of wine.
“Perhaps a bottle each. I know after this house, I could drink a bottle and still see the big cocks all over the house. Do you suppose she calls them that? Big cocks, or does she call them her baby roosters? Either way, I’ve had enough for the day.
” He said that he wanted to tell Kimber about the house.
“Sure, go ahead, but she won’t believe it until she sees it. ”
“No, I imagine not. But did you see how proud the husband was of all of them? He must have shown me the cocks room twice before I finally had to tell him that I’d seen it.
What do you suppose goes through someone’s mind when they go out and purposely collect something like that?
” He said that at least they were roosters and not real cocks.
“Yes, there is that.” They both laughed hard as they pulled up in front of the bar.
“You should tell Kimber to meet us here. She can eat and we can have fun telling her about the house.”
He agreed and called Kimber. She said that she’d meet them there in half an hour for them not to wait on her. They were having their second glass of wine, red of all things, when she came into the bar. After ordering her dinner, they told her about the houses that they’d seen.
“I wouldn’t have been able to hold my humor at the cocks house.
What’s their last name anyway? Tell me it has to do with roosters or something.
” They didn’t know if anyone had ever told them.
“Well, from now on it’s going to be the Cocks House.
I don’t even care if it’s something so mundane as Jones; it’s their names now. ”
They talked about the other houses, but kept coming back to the Cocks house.
It was something that he’d remember forever, and he thought that they would as well.
It had been a good outing, and he was happy that he’d been a part of it.
As Kimber ate her pizza, they talked about the food that they’d been able to eat as vampires.
“We can have garlic. I think that was made up by a vampire that was caught in the act of sipping from a human.” She asked if there were other things that weren’t true like that. “We can see our reflections too. How would we know that we look good when we went out side?”
They all laughed, and Rutger told her about the time he’d been caught in the act of having sex with one of his prey. It wasn’t really a funny story, but it did have a happy ending.
“I was sure that she wasn’t married. She actually told me that several times.
I should have guessed by the way she kept saying it that she wasn’t.
When her husband came into the room, we were in the middle of some intense sex.
He didn’t take too kindly to me having his wife at my cock while I fed from her wrist.” Rutger laughed.
“He didn’t get mad at me, but he did beat his wife.
Then, while he stood there with a gun pointed at me, he had her go down on him, too.
It was the strangest encounter that I’ve ever had with a woman.
Or man, for that matter. Needless to say, I’m much more careful when it comes to feeding. ”
“I would imagine so.” Kimber asked him how he could tell if they lied to him. “She wasn’t my mate, so it was perfectly acceptable for her to be able to lie to me. So when she insisted that she wasn’t married, I guess I was too hungry to question her. I’m much more careful nowadays.”
“I hope so. I don’t want anything to happen to my best friends.” He asked her if she really thought of him as a best friend. “Of course I do. You’re the greatest man among the others. I can’t wait until you meet your mate so that we can be friends too.
They enjoyed the rest of their evening. While Rutger still didn’t have a house, they’d had fun during the outing, and that made it well worth it all.
As soon as the weekend rolled around, they were going to go looking for other houses and hit up a couple of estate sales while they were at it.
Rutger was forever looking at estate sales for sales of wine, and Rance looked to see if he could find anything that he’d made while he’d been younger.
He’d made a lot of furniture at one point in his life and had been on the lookout for it since meeting up with Kimber.
He’d only been able to find one piece of furniture, and that was fine by him. It had been so long ago that he’d forgotten that he’d made it. Looking at it now, he wondered why he didn’t sell more pieces as he’d quit soon after selling a couple to the family down the street from where he lived.