Adjin pulls up on the side street next to John’s Aunt’s house on the Ocean Boulevard. The sea breeze makes the fog and mist seem alive…billowing like the sails of a ghost ship through the archway leading to the garden. Adjin steps out of the car, pushes the driver’s seat forward and grabs the banshee that used to stand in front of the Haunted House ride on the boardwalk. He leans it against the garden archway.
Adjin to Patty in the car
‘Perfect. Now stand next to her and do something funny so people think you are fun to be with… and I’ll take a picture and we’ll put it on your Facebook page.’
Patty gets out of the car
‘Like… I’m fun?’
Adjin
‘Patty…you're moping...you haven’t been single a week.’
Patty goes over to pose with the banshee.
‘You’re nothing if you aren’t with someone.’
Patty waves her hand in the fog.
‘Look, I’m disappearing already.’
Adjin
‘Well, I don’t have someone and I’m not disappearing.’
Patty
‘You’re hard to miss…riding around with the banshee in your back seat.’
Adjin presses something on the back of the banshee. It’s eyes light up purple.
‘I was gonna add black, thick rimmed nerd glasses. To make her more attractive to the Princeton crowd.’
Patty
‘Yes, that banshee would scream Ivy League .’
Adjin
‘An idea…Patty, what if next summer the banshee screams test questions at people. If x is the number of people eating greasy boardwalk food and y is the number of toilets with a 3.5 cubic foot areas, what is y if y is the value of vomit it takes to fill the toilets?’
Patty
‘You know Adjin, I’m shocked no woman has swept you up yet.’
Adjin takes a picture of Patty kissing the banshee
‘I know…right.’
Patty looks at the picture and they send it to her Facebook page
Patty
‘Life after Don. I’m no longer faceless.’
Adjin
‘Should I put one of me and the banshee on my Facebook page.’
Patty
‘Well, girls will know you don’t go by looks.’
Adjin
‘She completes me. She had me at…
Adjin presses something on the banshee.
The banshee screams
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