Metafire

Where was he going to get the money for a suit? Then he thought about Erisa, and the night before. "You know, I could do Internet hacking from space as easily as from downtown Houston. Wonder what Erisa does for a living, really?"

That evening Jack had the inside of the house fixed up. When Erisa got home she just looked down and smiled as she walked in past him. She said, "You make a great caretaker. Should I pay you?"

"Well, now that you mention it," he said with a smirk.

"Huh?"

"Well, you know that FBI job? I got it."

"Huh?" She was thinking that this was impossible. He didn't even have a car.

"Well, you know that guy I said I knew? He heads the Cyberspace Research Center. I don't know what happened but he hired me on the spot."

"Huh?"

"Yea. Yea."