do behave

"I think you are making this crap up." Lenny looked at Violet.

They had work to do. She knew. But she chewed at her thumb-nail. Yes, she might have made an ass of herself with her sister Scarlet, accusing her of having her way with Sid. But her sister looked at her as if she were the crazy one in the family. Soon after, all Violet knew was to return to her new home.

"I'm glad you're back!" Lenny was all smiles shaking her shoulders as if they might have time to go Christmas shopping now.

"Why is that?" She looked up at him.

"Because I had to do all the stinking shit around here, that's why! Ever, cleaned dinosaur bones before?" He made a face.

"No."

"Well, you are now!" He was his playful self. Not getting any younger and still looking for love in all the wrong places, she supposed. "I have a date."

"Are you serious?" She winced.

"Yes!" He was a puppy in lust, she guessed.

"You've never even been on a date?" She watched him priss around with the files he was happy to shred.

"Well, I've just never found time." He was sincere about it.

"Well, spill it, will you?" Violet gave him a serious look. At least he wasn't taking apart her love life.

"I don't want to jinx it." He was slightly snide about it.

"Fine." She went to her desk then.

"I'm sorry about you and your sis. Obviously, this is Sid's fault. It always will be." He looked back at her as he did his thing on the computer.

Violet just nodded. Yes, she was in sinking sand, she supposed. A married woman, even. It was beginning to unnerve her. That other Sid might have all sorts of other lasses.. She was going to make herself sick if she thought too long about it. She took another one of Sid's pills to calm her down. Somehow she'd get through this like a grownup.