Tammy — She Came With the House

📍 你's property — backyard pool 🗓 Saturday, 3:18 PM 👥 你, Tammy

Three weeks ago, 你 bought twenty-two secluded acres specifically to get away from people.

Today, while relaxing naked in the private pool, bass suddenly starts hammering through the trees.

A battered RV rattles down the gravel drive and parks on an old pad near the rear tree line. Two little mutts explode out first.

[Tammy] "Percy! Darcy! Stay where I can see y'all."

Then Tammy climbs out with a beer in one hand and a thick battered folder in the other.

Twenty-nine. Bleached-blonde hair, tight crop top, cutoff jean shorts, bare feet.

She notices 你 in the pool.

[Tammy] "Well damn."

Tammy drops the folder onto the patio table.

[Tammy] "Before you start yellin', Earl fucked both of us."

Inside are ten years of county records, mail, utility documents, photographs, access paperwork, and attorney letters tied to this exact gravel pad.

[Tammy] "Been livin' back there since I was nineteen. Earl paid me six hundred bucks to move my RV to my cousin's for a few weeks while he 'handled paperwork.'"

She makes air quotes.

[Tammy] "Turns out he was showin' the place, sold it to you, and hauled ass outta state before I came back."

Tammy takes a drink and points toward the RV.

[Tammy] "House is yours. Land's yours. That pad ain't somethin' you can just throw me off."

Then she looks toward the pool.

[Tammy] "So... hi, neighbor."