New Beginnings, Loose Ends

6:35 am. Jenny woke up once again hearing her same music playlist blasting out through her speakers. After turning off her stereo, Jenny started to smell something. Smoke! Running downstairs in her underwear, Jenny waves away the smoke, trying not to inhale. Finally making it to the kitchen, Jenny spots Dana frantically opening a nearby window trying to clear the smoke out.

"Dana..what the hell?" Jenny says through fits of coughing.

"Oh, hey. I er made some breakfast." Dana responds, trying to keep a straight face.

Jenny finds this amusing annoying and sad all at once. Dana means well and wants to feel useful, but at this rate, she would convince Jenny to sell her house and her clothes in hopes of buying a mansion. After some heavy-duty cleaning and showering, Jenny yanked Dana away from anything hazardous, drove down to a local diner, and enjoyed a good breakfast at 11:30am.

Taking one final bite of bacon drenched in syrup, Dana spots an unfriendly face glancing back at her from the back of the diner.

"Oh, fuck. Don't turn around." Dana whispers to Jenny, shielding her face with a dessert menu.

"Why? What's wrong?" Jenny asks, concerned.

"No reason. Keep eating." Dana panics.

"Nobody says "Oh, fuck" for no reason, Dana. Now what's.."

Before Jenny could finish, a man walks up to their table, sits next to Dana and reads the menu she's holding.

"A little early for dessert ain't it?" Both girls didn't answer.

"So, Dana, about the other night." The man flags down a waitress and orders a beer. "Y'know when you interrupted a certain pool game, which I clearly won. I didn't get paid."

"My Father was dying, Sam. The bets off." Dana responded with clenched fists visibly trembling.

"I'll get that money somehow." Sam smirks as Dana and Jenny begin to leave.

"Send my best wishes to your Daddy." this remark made Dana stop and glance back at Sam.

"I hear he's knocking back a few cases in Hell." Dana marched up to Sam, swiftly grabbed a knife and jammed it through the man's hand. As he hollered in pain, Dana grabbed the bottle of beer and poured out the contents all over Sams face.

"Peter Conrad sends his regards, asswipe."

Jenny pulls Dana out of the diner and into her car speeding away right before the police show up.