Novelette: Envy Is A Terrible Thing
By Charles Peters
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This story is fiction.
Any resemblance to any real people or places or things is not intentional.
Chapter Two
Elliot pulled the golf cart around and called to his wife who was standing on the porch. “Tell our darlings to get a move on. I’d like for us to get to the beach before nightfall.”
Judy called from in the house. “Mom do you have the suntan lotion?”
Ellen called back. “Everything that we need is in the beach bag with the chairs and the cooler on the golf cart.” Ellen smiled as she noticed how much stuff Elliot had loaded onto the golf cart. She laughed. “You may have to check the bridge clearance at the pedestrian pass to make sure that you don’t knock everything off.”
Elliot nodded. “I do have it stacked up there on top pretty good. That luggage rack Victor designed for the golf cart is ace. I love it.”
Victor came out of the house. He wore a fedora hat and dark sun glasses. He was wearing a surfer swimsuit colored with black and white checkers. He had a Marilyn Monroe beach towel draped around his neck.
Ellen looked at her son’s stomach. “Do you have abs painted on?”
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“No. They are real. But I am greased up most excellent with coconut oil that does make my abs more noticeable.” Victor put his arm under his mother’s nose. “Can you smell the oil? I smell so good.”
Ellen pushed Victor’s arm away from her nose. “Don’t come crying to me when you are in pain from the sunburn; this first official day of summer.”
Judy came out of the house onto the porch with the looks of a bikini princess. She spun around like a runway model. Then she took a step and stumbled. She caught the white rail of the porch. Then she stepped back.
Ellen admired her daughter dressed in a pink bikini swimsuit. She wore a thin white, see through, coverup over her suit. “Elliot, I hope you have packed a shotgun. Judy is going to have the boys fighting over her like we are in a saloon in a western.”
“Mom. You know I will give no one encouragement. I have a boyfriend. Steed Ramsey.”
“I thought Victor had chased him off.”
Victor smiled. “Not yet.”
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Victor tipped his fedora hat from his head to reveal his messy hair. He put his hat on Judy. With a smile she began to model it in poses.
Victor laughed as he took his hat back. “You silly. I was going to say the hat should help chase the boys away but the hat looks better on you than me.”
Using a cane, Stewart came out of the house. He was wearing a plain gray boxer style swimsuit. He had a solid white beach towel draped around his neck.
Stewart looked at Judy. “Where is your beach towel?”
“Oh crap. Let me go back and find one.”
Victor said, “There are a couple laying on my bed.”
Judy ran back inside.
Elliot said, “We are never going to get to the beach today.”
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Ellen said, “Dear, it is not even nine yet. Stop rushing us.”
Stewart asked, “Is there a reason that you are in a hurry to get to the beach?”
Elliot said, “I guess not. No reason.”
Ellen said, “They are going to have a raffle drawing and if your father’s number is called and he isn’t there they will draw again. Your father is hoping to win. Like we ever win anything.”
Judy came running out of the house. “Victor, you forgot your phone and Jack Minx was calling. He is wondering where you are. I told him that we are on the way.” Judy handed Victor his phone.
Stewart said, “So Jack Minx is in town and will be at the beach.”
“Yeah. The band finished their last club date in Atlanta last weekend. He has a three week break.”
Judy said, “I like Jack.”
Stewart said, “He is okay. It just kind of bothers me that some people think that Victor is his boyfriend.”
Victor said, “Jack is my friend just like Harry Walsh is your friend.”
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Stewart said, “I know. I am sorry I said anything.”
Victor said, “No. That is cool. I know some people might think I am gay because Jack is gay. I don’t really care.”
Elliot said, “Can we get to the beach already?”
Ellen said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kids, let us get to the beach.”
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