White River Social Life

The neighborhood that Paul lives in is beautiful but isolated. It is a gated community with an electric fence surrounding the neighborhood and security patrolling. Even with all the security there has been a rash of break-ins in the neighborhood. Paul’s house has a gate on the steps that go to the second floor that they can lock at night incase of a robbery, it will keep the intruders downstairs.

Many of his neighbors have their own personal helicopters, which they takeoff and land in their backyards. A trip to the local coffee shop is traveled by helicopter. This morning I was woken up by our next door neighbor, Jack, taking off for his morning coffee.

Morning coffee shop and the local gossip hole is Zanna’s. Lou and I have become regulars along with the rest of the neighborhood. Everybody knows everybody, it is similar to Sedgefield, lots of incestuous business relationships and local scandals.

We have become friends with many of Paul’s friends and neighbors. Louie is the perpetual bachelor. He is a really delightful person and seems to have his hand in almost every pie, he owns the local shopping center, a local magazine, a local radio station and is building a local hotel, with Jack as his partner.

Jenna and Dex are a very interesting couple. Jenna is one of the more famous jewelry designers in South Africa. Her line, Jenna Clifford www.jennaclifford.com, is as popular or more so then the David Yurman jewelry in the United States. They came over for dinner the other night for some chili. It was really neat meeting a local celebrity.

As Dex and Jenna arrived, Jenna was carrying her poodle and the aura in the room immediately changed. She set the dog on a chair and for the rest of the evening the dog sat without moving or making a sound. She is a very ethereal person and within minutes of talking to Lynn and Lou had pegged both of their personalities. Lynn and Lou were sold, this is probably going to cost me money, it already cost John. A couple of days later when we came into the house and a gift was sitting on the counter from Jenna wrapped in a beautiful bow tied with roses on top. Help!