Anna looked at the calendar, sighed in frustration and flung it across the room. She sighed, her house was freezing, she couldn’t afford to use the heating, and she was living solely on toast as she has no other food and no money to buy shopping. She was flat broke, and her rent was a week overdue and already in arrears. She knew the Dave the landlord would be calling today, as yet she didn’t know what she was going to tell him and how the hell she was going to talk her way out of being evicted.
She shivered in the draughty, damp living room, and closed her eyes. She had lost her job two months ago and had barely left the house since then, she had no one to help her out of this mess, and she felt too down to even help herself. She felt a twinge of sadness as she thought of how she had let herself go a little, her long auburn hair which she took so much pride in curling everyday, sat straight down her back, and her green eyes had lost the lustful sparkle they had once possessed.
She lost track of the time as she drifted away, but sometime later she was startled by a loud knock on the door. Anna’s stomach lurched; it was the landlord here to collect the money she owed him. Dave was a friend of a friend, a few years older than she was, tall and stocky with an olive complexion. They had got on pretty well for the first few months but since she had fallen behind on her rent she sensed the friendship had gone and that he was getting increasingly pissed off with her excuses.
She sighed as she unlocked the door and opened it; Dave was standing outside looking a little impatient. ‘Hi Dave’ she smiled weakly, Dave crossed his arms and nodded a hello ‘Anna you know this isn’t a social call don’t you’. She made him coffee, black, she couldn’t even afford milk these days. Dave sighed ‘Anna we cant carry on like this, I bought this house as an investment and you can't even manage to pay me’, he set his mug down, ‘I’m afraid in going to look for new tenants, I’m giving you a weeks notice’.
Anna knew this was coming, but the shock still hit her pretty hard, she pleaded with Dave ‘just give me a few more weeks, get back on my feet, you know, get a job, please don’t do this’. Dave tried to fight the sympathy he was beginning to feel, he was loosing money but he couldn’t help the fact that he liked Anna a lot, he found her so sexy, and often found wicked thoughts of her running through his head at night. He had tried to get close to her once, just after she has moved in, but she has made it clear that she wasn’t interested and never would be, he just wasn’t her type. He looked back at Anna who was wiping tears from her eyes, and as he did so, a thought crossed his mind, he pondered upon it for a few moments before speaking again. ‘Anna I’m sorry I have no choice, I have to evict you unless…we think about payment in other ways’.