Operation Get Rid of Mom's New Boyfriend by E. N. Joy Page A

feet from each other. If
Joy came out of there before they could find her inside, he would
be right there waiting. He knew that Sammi was upset with his, what
appeared to be, lack of concern. Therefore, he had to admit that
the male macho side of him wanted to make it up to her by being the
one to find Joy. He wanted Sammi to be able to look at him like a
hero. Seems like almost everybody had their own hidden
agenda…especially the girls.
     

Chapter
Fourteen
    Devil in Disguise
    Kennedy knew she didn’t
have much time if their plan was going to work. It was all about
timing. Just as she was about to give up hope, she saw
her.
    “ That’s her. That’s the
one,” Kennedy said to herself as she made her way toward a woman
who was standing next to one of her girlfriends checking out the
Pink Flamingos. “Hi,” Kennedy said after tapping the woman on the
shoulder.”
    “ Well, hello,” the woman
replied, batting her mascara covered fake eyelashes. “What can I do
you for, sweetness?” the unknowing accomplice asked
Kennedy.
    “ Well…I…Uh,” Kennedy
stammered purposely. “I really don’t know how to say this, but…do
you see that guy over there?” Kennedy pointed to Bo who was sitting
on the bench watching the gorilla entrance and exit
doors.
    The woman perked up after
seeing the attractive man on the bench…all alone. “Well, sure I see
him.” She licked her lips and not one bit of the ruby red lipstick
she had matted on her lips came off. The woman then said under her
breath to her girlfriend, “Who could miss his fine-”
    “ Well, see, he’s my dad,”
Kennedy cut her off. “And he’s a little shy. He and my mom have
been divorced for quite some time and he’s never even dated. I
mean, in all honesty, he’s never even found any other woman
attractive…that was until he looked up and saw you.”
    “ What? Who me?” The woman
put her hand on her chest, which appeared to be well endowed thanks
to the little tube top she was wearing. She was obviously
flattered.
    “ Yeah. I mean he froze like
a deer in headlights when he saw you. But he’d never actually come
over here to talk to you. He doesn’t even know that I’m over here
talking to you. I told him I was going to see the gorilla exhibit.”
Well, Kennedy had only partially lied.
    “ So what do you suggest I
do?” the obviously eager, single woman asked Kennedy.
    “ I don’t know,” Kennedy
shrugged. “How about going over and asking him for the time, just
to strike up a conversation. You know what I mean?”
    The woman looked at Bo; she
then looked at her friend for approval. Her friend gave an
indifferent shrug as if she didn’t care one way or the other. “Oh,
little mama, I know exactly what you mean.” The woman straightened
out her denim mini skirt, and before Kennedy could say another
word, Miss Thing was switching on her way toward Bo.
    Bo didn’t notice the woman
coming his way. He hadn’t taken his eyes off the doors to the
gorilla exhibit not once. That was until something caught his eye.
He saw a little girl sitting behind a tree peeking around it. He
noticed that this little girl was wearing a white tee shirt and her
hair was in two ponytails with hot pink ribbons in it, just like
Joy had been wearing.
    He wanted to be certain
that it was her, so he waited for her to peek her head around the
tree again so that he could get a better look this time. In a few
seconds, the little girl peeked around the corner again. It looked
like Joy, but she didn’t appear to be the least bit afraid. A lost
little girl would have surely been afraid. In fact, this child was
happily licking on a vanilla ice cream cone. If he recalled
correctly, a vanilla ice cream cone is exactly what Joy had been
eating prior to going into the gorilla exhibit.
    Bo stood up and sighed. He
then shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. He didn’t know what
the girls were up to, but he was about to find out.
    “ Sir, do you have the
time?” a woman