Lesser Phil- Episode 2: Delivering Pizza

Alright, it is key that you read my previous entry about L. Phil or else this story doesn’t have the same impact. If you have not read it here is the link- Last Time on ‘Lesser Phil’

So after going up to my room and trying not to hear his muffled voice- which only proceeds to get LOUDER as more phone calls are placed. I begin to block it out and assume that he is a desperate or lonely man and that I don’t really care anymore.

So anyway- Hector and I are planning on heading to Talli’s to watch the Oscars as a small group and I, unhappily, pack back up my computer bag and plan to head downstairs knowing full well it means walking into the midst of his loud voice which has now become like nails on a chalkboard that’s eating my soul. I convince myself to leave only by reassuring myself that if I leave the house I will not have to listen to the increasingly loud mumbles of his voice booming from downstairs.

I walk down the stairs and Chewie skirts past me into the living room and I find myself listening to his end of the conversation that plays out like this:

“Yeah, so it’ll be five of us guys living in this one man’s house. It’ll be totally swee…”

Midword he freezes and our eyes meet. I give no indication that I was listening or care, because I don’t UNTIL he awkwardly changes the subject to-

“So… you can cook a pizza like that right?……. Oh yeah delivering pizza……. Yeah, I didn’t know you did that…. I used to do that…. I really like pizza…..”

By this point I have already made it to the kitchen where I am hiding a laugh. Could he have been anymore obvious with his “cover-up” to that conversation? I am tempted to stay and force him to continue to talk about pizza but I have a friend to pick up AND (more importantly) I want away from his voice. I take off, considering for a moment not closing the door all the way and listening for awhile until I would come back because I “forgot something.”

If he’s moving out- that’s all the better for me…. I hope he doesn’t think I would ask him to stay. That’s not the first time he’s been sketchy with his conversations- repeating stories but the facts change each time they’re retold or being vague or telling another person a completely different version of a situation he’s described to you.

So I ask:

Drug Dealer, Paranoid Freak, or just Planning to Move Out? Find out next time on Lesser Phil!

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