IN DIFF ORDER OR USE AS SEGWAY TO INTRODUCE GENE???
Twenty-five years and numerous marriages later, Veronica gingerly lead a blindfolded Gene [husband number 4] through a dimly lit restaurant where his guests were seated. It was his 70th birthday and true to tradition Veronica took him out to his favorite restaurant to celebrate. Ava cringed as she saw them enter.‘Now why would she find that wise?‘ Gene was a notorious hypocondriac as well as claustrophobic, extremely nervous man so the very fact that he was being guided while blindfolded to an unknown destination by his ex-wife must have been a very unnerving experience for him to say the least. As they neared Ava noticed beads of sweat dripping down Gene’s ashen face, which captivated the pure fear he clearly felt. It also looked as though he was twitching uncontrollably. Ira, his son, leaned over to Ava whispering „What’s up with your mom? Didn’t she torture him enough in the past?“ The comment bristled Ava and it took every ounce of her not to make a nasty face. Sure her mother was flighty, flirty and well just overall flawed! But still she was her mother and Ava always felt protective of her. Instead she whispered back „Well gene could have said no. Looks like he hasn’t grown a vertebre since their separation.“ Ira sat back in irritation, knowing she had one. That was one thing Ava loved about her temperment, she was naturally sweet as sugar but when she came accross a person she did not care for she made sure they never knew. She had that charm about her in her blood, sort of a je nais qui if you will.
When Veronica finally removed the blindfold everyone began to clap in lieu of yelling surprise, as that just might put Gene over the edge and no one felt like going to the hospital that night. Three days prior Ava and Ella, his daughter, had to take him when he convinced himself he had a tapeworm from eating a piece of carpaccio at Ella’s jazz performance at the local art museum where Ava worked. Gene was able to bounce back quickly and sat down next to Veronica, who always finds a way to be the center of attention, and his current wife Whitney-Anne. Whitney-Anne, a wouthern belle from georgia, clashed greatly with Gene’s New York City neurotic personality. The rest of the party included Ira and Ella, his children with his wife after Veronica. She was Greta Staum a cold-blooded supermodel from Germany, where she now resided after dumping her children on poor Gene. This (hodge-podge/eclectic) birthday celebration began that year as she left him on his actual birthday so Veronica felt it her duty to take Gene and his children out to dinner. Ava was ordered to come because one does not say „no“ to Veronica and she always had a soft spot for Gene. In many ways he acted like a father figure to her since her own beloved father lived in Spain with his new wife; albeit a goofy father figure, but someone she could depend upon nontheless.
The dinner started off as it had every other year Gene complaining about his ailments, Ella scanning the room frantically as she sadly inheritied Gene’s restless gene, Ira grumbling about some political maljustice, Whitney-Anne sipping her obnoxiously bright, fruity drink, Veronica half listening to gene prattle on as she puckered her lips at her chanel compact mirror, and Ava trying to carry the conversation as she always does in group settings. There is something about the quiet that makes her very anxious and twitchy. ‚Perhaps you’re more like Gene than you think??“ quipped Woody. Ava just shrugged in agreement, she couldnt deny the fact that she was totoally neurotic.
The dinner continued on in a comicial and bizarre manner as it had traditionally been. It wasn’t until dessert that things took a turn for the severly awkward. The already dimmed lights dimmed even mre cuasing Gene to twitch and turn in his seat. A hush fell upn the diners in the restuarte as the wait staff, resembling penguins, approached the table with a Rum Cake, Veronica’s favorite which was then adopted as Gene’s favorite during their breif marriage stint. A baritone rendition of Happy Birthday was sung as Gene continued to squirm in his seat. When the waitors set the cake down Gene all but fell off his chair with one glance at the clown candle holder set atop the cake. „Go ahead now darlin make a wish!“ Whitney-Anne spoke for the first time that evening. „no no no I have to go“ And with that gene sprung from his seat and bolted out the door in all his paranoid glory. The rest of the group just sat and stared at one another, no sure what to make of the situation. „ava go after him“ V ordered. „Me??“ Why don’t you?“ „Oh for God’s sake I will go“ grumbled Ira, althgouh he didn’t look upset and Ava swore she saw him whistling cheerfully as he exited the restaurant.
It wasn’t until the following day that Ava was able to get ahold of Gene.
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