The Hinata Apartments

Alice Webber ran a hand over her head to wipe away the beads of sweat. Her blue eyes fixiated on the stacks of paper that lay beneath her strained eyes.
"Want me to get you anything? You seem to be working really hard and I'm saying you really dont have to..."
"Shayne..." Alice moaned, tossing her glasses to the floor absentmindely to rub inbetween her eyes. "I've been a manager at the bar down the street for three years, going on four. Kit is about to take over. Being manager at this dorm isn't all that bad."
Shayne shook her head and scoffs. "Babe, you're twenty-two years old, okay?"
"Come on Shayne-" She threw up her arms only to have Shayne gently surpress them onto the wooden table.
"Hear me out, okay? It's about time I give you the tutorial on how big this is. It's an all-girls dorm. Strike one, because you're gay. Two, it's the china town of Los Angeles California, you can't even understand Japanese, I don't care if you are from Japan. You spent your entire life down here. Number three, this place is in dept by six-thousand dollars. And the owner didn't even leave it in your name."
Alice sighed, resting her head in her palm. "I know, it just so happened to be signed in your name."
Shayne shook her head and sipped at the tea, regaining her concience from gagging. She was a full blown american, and switching into a Japanese dorm wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Thankfully the girls weren't in from vacation. She was having enough relationship problems well enough to have other women pawing themselves over for her.
"It wasn't in my name. This person..according to your so called 'perfect japanese' reading, is Shay Poynter. Not Shayne."
"For fucking sakes, they forgot a couple of letters! Give them a break!"
Shayne shook her head. "Nope. Because I don't live in Nebraska and I'm older than this person. On top of that, it's a male. Do I look like a boy?"
Alice scoffed. "I'm not going to answer that. You're a dyke and you can pass for a guy if you wanted to. So until this so called, Shay, appears to take over the Hinata apartments I deem us the prime headmasters of the dorm."
"I can't do that." Shayne mumbled.
Alice's face subdued in dissapointment and sadness. "But why...wait, Darla?"
Shayned bowed her head and sighed, nodding at the papers. "We're having problems and taking all my stuff to manage an all girls japanese dorm isn't really making it any better."
"Shayne...baby, you cheat on each other every damn Friday. There's no making that sort of relationship any better. Comming home, fixing each others food, missing every oppurtunity to poisoneach other, and having sex only for revenge is not a suitable relationship. So dump the bitch and come live with me. It's perfect!"
Shayne thought about Darla and how she'd take it. She'd be crushed of course, but the relationship isn't going anywhere. Darla was always comming back with women to hang out, and Shayne was doing the same. "I guess it wouldn't be a problem if I stayed-"
Alice took her head into her hands and gave her a short kiss on the lips. "It will be great! I promise!"
Shayne licked her lips and held Alice's hands. "That's a start. Do it again."
Alice playfully slapped her hands away and bent to retreive her glasses. "Your my best friend, that's gross. Now," she walked over to the other side of the room and dug into the drawer. "In here we have the members of the dorm."
Shayne rose from the floor and got up behind Alice, wrapping her arms around her waist to peer at the files that she'd been holding. The inscriptions were all in japanese but there were pictures above them, which at least gave her an inkling idea of what she'd been dealing with. "She looks cute."
"That would be Myou Shukymei. It says she's ninteen years old and she's been staying at the hinata apartments since she was seventeen. She's not married, if you want a sign of celebacy."
Shayne smiled and nodded, kissing her shoulder in soft butterfuly kisses. "That's great, hun."
Alice spun away from her with a giggle. "What the hell is wrong with you are you drunk!?"
Shayne shrugged and smoothed a hand over her hair. "Horny. I haven't gotten laid in sixty-eight hours and thirty-five minutes."
"So trying to score with your best friend is a get back way to make 'you' feel better?"
Shayne nodded. "I was thinking we have sex first, and then review over who else lives in the dorm."
Alice nodded and bit onto her lower lip, thinking. "I've known you since high school. The most you can give me is a hickey dammit and that's final."
She laughed at her offer and looked through the files. "How many girls stay here?"
"Alot of people have come and gone, so there aren't many. To a rough estimate I'd say seven."
"Do you know where the original manager is?" Shayne asked, resuming her sitting position on the wooden floor.
"She's on vacation to Japan. She's suppose to be there for a rough nine months. I don't know why she went there or why she didn't draft one of the hinata girls for the job but I just knew she came and dropped some spices for bar. Sure I gave her bannanas and fruits on the contrary but Shayne, she wanted you. You were always at the bar."
"I don't even know who she is, though. None of my family is Japanese or Asian. Trust me I'd know."
Alice sat in her lap and plopped the papers back on the table. "Then there's someone in your family that you don't know about. She personally told me to find a guy named Shay Poynter. You just so happen to have almost the exact same first name and the correct last name. I see a huge flaw in there. But, she also mentioned a Shay moving to Nebraska to catch up with a 'dying friend'. I'm alive and well so she wasn't talking about you."
Shayned raked a hand through her hair and pinched between her eyes. "He's in Nebraska? So what will happen if he's manager of the apartments?"
"Well, she said she's mailed the starting five grand at his place. And I'm not really sure who is is and what he might do with the money. "
"Hey, didn't your ex settle down in Nebraska?" Shayne asked, twisting the ends of her hair.
Alice shrugged. "I don't give much a of a fuck to recall where she went but I'm going to print out some directions on Mapquest so you can drive out there while I look out on the apartment and organize all this crap and get the rules straight."
Shayne let out a deep sigh. "How long will it take me to get there?"
"By car, a few days. I'll tell you what, I can purchase a plane ticket therefore it wont take as long. I need you to track down that guy before he spends it on God knows what."
Shayne nodded, rising up. "Yeah, kind of makes you wonder what type of guy this is."