Sunday, December 20, 2009

Chapter 7...Part 2

The girl was thrilled to return to work the next week. It would be 2 weeks before she would receive a paycheck but just to be working and know a paycheck was coming was so satisfying and relaxing.

Going back to work was hard since she knew that people had talked about her while she was gone. She wasn’t quite sure what to expect in regards to returning but at least she was going to be back and doing what she already knew how to do. A work friend gave her some really good advice and that helped her get through those first rough days.

It was nice to be back to work and she was away from the guest for about 9 hours everyday. It was nice to again be able to think for herself. She also got to spend time with her mom each day since she was taking her to and from work. It was nice to have this time to catch up on things that happened while the girl was away. The peace was not all the time though. The guest still called her at work but she could tell him that she had to have short phone calls or that her manager was watching her and be able to keep the calls fairly short.

Before the couple returned to Utah the girl had discussed with the guest what he could and would do as work. Because of his heart condition the guest said that he could get on disability and possibly work some kind of a desk job. He said that his heart obviously was not going to let him work and that there wasn’t a doctor that would clear him through DOT so he didn’t have much choice. Obviously the race team was all messed up so he didn’t have a lot of options.

After they returned to Utah the girl kept telling the guest that he needed to get the paperwork together for disability. He kept giving her reasons that he couldn’t get an appointment. One of those reasons was because he did not have a copy of his birth certificate and social security card. He told her that he requested them but they hadn’t come in the mail yet and that he couldn’t even make an appointment until he had those documents.

What the girl didn’t know what that the guest was working on the race team again while she was at work and when she was sleeping. He eventually told her about it. He told her that he could no longer race in American LeMans but that he could race in Grand-Am. They had several discussions about the situation. The girl thought he needed to get disability and they needed to get him checked out health-wise. Even though they were home the girl was quickly learning that the guest thought he was in charge and whatever he said goes. He told the girl that she would work for him during the day and work her regular job at night.

What made things more frustrating was that the guest had talked about the race team with Kent. Kent is a graphic artist and the two of them discussed Kent doing graphic arts for the race team, especially designing the graphics for the race car. Kent was ecstatic because he thought this meant great business for him. DK was very leery of the situation but decided to stay out of it.

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