#debrad

“Surely this is the place Asia was talking about. It is right on the highway as you come into town, just like she said. It looks a little dirty, but I need a place to stay at a decent price.”

Within a week, I had some “new” used furniture, a new bed some curtains a rug and my stuff and I can now call it home!!

Yes, Yellow is my favorite color, thanks for asking!

The first time I got up on the terrace to paint, I was in heaven!!  This will make a great work space and even a great studio, as it NEVER rains here (creator turned the rain off)

EDDIE- “Well I need your advise, actually. I want to get a pet. And a hamster is out of the question. Too much mess and they always seem to die on me. A cat is out of the question, as I am allergic. Everyone here has lizards so no on that. So I thought about a puppy.”

EDDIE- “There is this one, it is a schnauzer and here is a half terrier half chihuahua.”

DEBRA - “Awe, they are so cute, they both are cute, I would have a hard time choosing if I were you Eddie.”

EDDIE- “I know but wait until I show you the next one! I know it will absolutely break your heart. He is a shiatzu.”

DEBRA- “OMG!!!  Eddie, yes it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!”

EDDIE- “Yes, Yes they are... beautiful, yes. Beautiful!”

Apparently, Yasmin’s uncle, Eddie Trejo (who is younger than I imagined he would be) had some rental property available upstairs in his two family bungalow. It just so happened it was right across the street from the motel!

EDDIE- “I am sorry Miss Dixon, but I have that place already spoken for. A friend of mine said he wanted it.”

DEB- “Oh, Okay I see.”

YASMINE- “Okay, listen Uncle Eddie, I am texting your friend and letting him know that you rented the place to some one  else.”

EDDIE- “Yaz, how do you know who I am even talking about?”

YASMINE- (Looking at Deb) “Uncle Eddie only has one real friend and we all know him. Johnny Zest, and he has a trailer down the road, why does he need this place?”

EDDIE- “I am sorry Miss Dixon, but He is renting it for his friend.”

DEB- “Please, just call me Deb, but it is okay, I understand.”

YASMINE- “Uncle Eddie!!?? Come on, why are you lying? This hot young single girl wants to live upstairs over you. All she wants to do is paint in a safe place and the Motel is not that place!! Do I need to call mom?”

EDDIE- “So, Miss Dixon, I mean Deb, would you like to see the place?”

YASMINE- “That’s more like it!”

MANNY- “What is she doing here?”

DEB- Who, what? Listen Manny I am trying to concentrate here.”

MANNY “Okay, I need to take care of something anyway.”

MANNY- “What are you doing here, Yaz, you know your momma said if you were caught over here with me again, she would have me arrested.”

YASMIN- “Manny, for what? What is my mother going to have you arrested for, flirting with me? We never even kissed, Manny. Arrest? Not gonna happen, and I ain’t here to see you anyway, so get over yourself.”

MANNY- “So what are you here for?”

YASMIN- “Her. Who is she?”

MANNY- “Her name is Deb, she lives in #1″

YASMIN- “Lives here? Manny this is a motel, not a damn apartment complex, people STAY here, they don’t live here. So she stayed in #1? Did that dude kill himself in there the other night?”

MANNY- “Hey, listen don’t freak her out, she is a paying customer and she already went to the Hotel to find a room.”

YASMIN- “Hey Deb, I am Yasmin Cisneros, I live down the street. So Manny here says you were looking for a place to live. You really can’t stay here, Okay this place is shit, Deb, and for losers. You do not look like a loser to me. Can we talk?”

DEBRA- “All three of those puppies are so cute, but you are right that little one did melt my heart. I think you should go with him.”

EDDIE- “I thought so to, but I wanted your opinion. There is something else I wanted to ask, Deb. I hope I am not being to forward.”

DEBRA- “Of course not Eddie, what is it you want to ask. I am a big girl!”

EDDIE- “Well, I was kind of hoping, well wishing... I will just say it. I think you are very pretty and nice and I would like to ask you out to dinner sometime. Would you be interested in maybe a dinner and a movie?”

DEBRA- “Eddie, Awe, I am flattered ------

“HEY GUYS!!!!”

It was Yasmine, as always there at an inappropriate time.

YASMINE- “Uh, Hello, I said HEY GUYS, Did you not hear me? 

SILENCE-

YASMINE- “Are either of you here? Earth to Deb and Eddie!! What are you two doing out here by the trash, in this heat it fucking stinks, Let’s go to the back patio!, I have something  I  JUST  have to tell you two!

EDDIE- “Yasmine, please, we were talking and I just asked....

DEBRA- “Yeah, he just asked me that. Wanted to know if I wanted to go to the back patio, Right, Eddie? Come on let’s all go. This trash does smell  a little.

DEB- “All night long i kept hearing this weird noise, like a light quiet type screeching or scratching. And that damn night light kept going off. After Manny told me someone was killed in here, I was kind of getting freaked out.”

YASMIN- “OMG!! DEB, LOOK!!!”

DEB- “WHAT!!??”

DEB- “AHHH  I see it!! Is that a rat??!!”

YASMIN- “That almost looks like a damn possum it’s so big!”

DEB- “I guess that was all that scratching and screeching I heard!”

YASMIN- “That settles it. We are going to go see my Uncle Eddie, right now!!”

DEB- “Can he kill that thing for me?”

“After striking out at the Oasis Hotel and with Cameron Mayfield I just came back to this freaky motel to paint.”