A Locked Shed

Then just as silently as he came, Joseph left me standing there wondering what was in the garden shed. Sure I knew that we had a shed-like structure connected to the side of the garage, but I never had an inkling to check it out. But I knew that I had to go find out what Joseph was on about.

Mom, Joseph and Roger were in front of the TV trying to answer the questions before each other on Jeopardy. Taking by the way the guys were looking, mom must have been showing off again! So now with them preoccupied I had a chance to do some checking out of the shed without interference. So I returned to the kitchen and went into the backyard.

I got down to the shed and was immediately stopped by a lock on the door. A plastic coated combination lock! Great why couldn’t it be a simple combination lock that used a key, at least then I could find it and come back fast. I had no idea where Joseph would keep a written combination, unless it was in his nightstand in his and mom’s bedroom!

So I went back to the house and found them still trying their luck on Jeopardy. I decided right there and then to cover my real intentions, “I’m going to my room to catch up on some reading I have to do for class next week!” All three of them looked up as the first commercial began to play and wished me good night in case I fell asleep before they came up to bed.

The one advantage of our place, when there isn’t a whole lot of talking you can hear the TV clean as day when it was being played on certain stations. So when I heard Ken Jennings speak I knew that I had at least fifteen minutes to check out Joseph’s night stand. Maybe that was why I never heard Roger when he came up.

I had just gone into mom and Joseph’s room . had the small drawer in the front slid out and was intently searching for a combination “Is someone doing something she doesn’t want dad and Miranda to find out about!”

Fuck I jumped and swung around ready to hit him. “You scared the shit out of me Roger!”

“I didn’t mean to but in ase you have forgotten this isn’t your bedroom, so what are you doing in here?”

Without thinking I came right out and told Him. “While I was doing the dishes your dad snuck up behind me and told me that we had to take it easy when fucking in the house. I told him that I didn’t even know there was an attic, then he said that I would be surprised what was in the shed. But he never said it was locked by a combination lock!”

“And of course he never told you the combination to the lock, Turn left to two, then two turns to the right to four then right to sixty-nine!”

“You’re kidding me 2-4-69, who the hell picked that as a combination?”

“Dad of course!” Then he said something that made me pause. “Tell you what I’ll go to the shed with you an open it so you don’t think I’m lying to you”

“Wait, whatever is in the shed, is there any way we could break it or cause it to come through the walls?”

Roger’s answer really made me wonder what I would find in the shed. “Damn, I can’t even remember that last time I‘ve been to the shed, after all it’s not the kind of place you take a girl to unless she’s into that kind of hook-ups!”