“Yes” I replied as I put down my glass smiling, she must have been the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
She looked at me and smiled weakly, I nodded to the seat in front of me she sat, resting her handbag on her lap.
I sat back in my chair and crossed my legs that lay on my desk, I put my drink to a side and pulled out a pack of cigarettes from one of the over stuffed desk drawers and lit up.
“Smoke?” I asked offering the pack
“Oh, no thank you” she replied
I shrugged and started to puff away admiring the view in font of me.
She seemed nervous as she looked at me from beneath her draped hat,
“I have a problem” she said looking down and opening up her bag, she lifted out a small photograph and put it front of me.
I swung my legs down from the desk and pulled my chair closer I picked up the photo and found myself looking at the image of a ginger cat, I ran my hands through my hair and sighed.
“Look, I have no time to look for little lost kittens, have you tried asking your neighbours or something?”
“No” she replied anxiously as she pointed to the man in the picture holding the cat
“It’s him, my brother, he’s missing”
She took back the photo and continued to look at me with pleading eyes
“If you can’t help I understand” she said getting up from her seat, “it’s just that I got told you were the best in town,”
I looked at her questioningly, this girl was good, and I could tell she new how to get what she wanted.
“Wait” I said holding my hand up making her stop in her tracks “tell me about your brother.”
We sat and talked for at least an hour, she explained how she and her brother were very close and lived together. She told me how he had been getting strange phone calls recently and he wouldn’t explain them to her, he had then gone to work later that night and not returned. She then explained how she had gone to his work not thinking much as he might have just stayed the night, but his boss had told her he hadn’t been in at all.
I could tell that she was relying on me to find her brother and I knew that I wouldn’t disappoint her.
