Bea stood in the mail room with her hands on her hips. It seemed like each time she solved a problem, a new one cropped up. Just last night she had managed to get the window above her kitchen sink to close. She had been thrilled, the cold had been becoming a problem. She thought back to the victory dance she had done, now looking at the piles of mail in the mail room she wondered if the frog had been right. He had said the dance was too much, over the top, not appropriate given the recent events in St. Abel. It was a remarkably rude frog, Bea thought, maybe I should give it a name so I have something more specific to direct my anger at than, 'The Frog'.
Bea picked up a package from on top of the nearest bin. The package was for Jackie Redford, but the return address was blacked out, all Bea could make out was 'Ackeri'. Maybe it was the street name, possibly Ackeridge, no way to know for sure. From then on Bea called the frog Ackeridge.
Looking around at the rest of the mail Bea thought it looked like an infestation, there was never this much mail at the Foxberry. She decided to go ahead and run Jackie's package up to her in an attempt to feel like she'd gotten something done that day. She looked around quickly and figured it wouldn't hurt to grab the other packages that had been strewn about as well. She dropped the six packages into a rolling bin and headed for the service elevator. She dropped the packages off in no particular order, usually she would go all the way to the top floor that needed a package and work her way down. However, today she wasn't in any particular hurry to get back to the sorting that awaited her in the mailroom, and she enjoyed riding the service elevator.
She dropped the packages off as she pulled them out of the bin. Bret, Jackie, Billy Bob, Ren, Azula, Evelyn. She thought it was odd that they had all mentioned for her not to come into the apartment as the accepted their packages, she never came past the threshold on a delivery. Today though each package recipient had mentioned that they had gotten lice and didn't want Bea to catch any. Azula had mentioned that she'd gotten it a few days ago, and it probably wasn't an issue anymore, but had warned her just to be safe Which was nice of them, but how odd that all of the people who had received packages also had lice?
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