Disclaimer
and author's note: Hi. I'm egbkid. It's been a while. A long
while. This is actually a reposting of my first story ever posted
here. I am re posting it because I am writing some new stories and
just re testing the waters, so to speak. I have tweaked the story a
bit, and reposted it. But it is mostly the same, minus all the
annoying author's notes I wrote at the beginning of every chapter.
This is about four years old, remember, and I have had lots of
practice since then, so this might not be very good. I don't own
anything but the plot and a few minor characters, so please do not
sue me, I am a poor Canadian who enjoys writing a story now and then.
Now, on with the show!
-egbkid
"I will remember you,
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life, pass you
by..."
Logan sat in front of his computer, tears in his eyes.
Max had up and disappeared ten months ago, and he still missed her.
He was trying once again to track her down. A friend in Los Angles
had thought he saw her about a month after she went missing. But the
friend owned a restaurant, and saw hundreds every day. It was a slim
to none chance that it had been Max, and he had not seen her again.
The doorbell rang, but Logan ignored it. It continued to ring and
ring until finally he got annoyed with it and went to see whom it
was. He pressed the buzzer by the door and talked.
"Can I
help you?"
"Package, for Mr. Logan Cale?"
"Can
you leave it there; I'll be down to get it later."
"I
need a signature, sir."
"Alright, come up." He hit
the button that would allow the messenger to use the elevator to get
to his floor.
As the elevator arrived, Logan opened the door and
went into the hallway. It was someone from Jam Pony, Logan didn't
recognize the younger man, but seeing the logo brought a wave of
fresh pain, and he had to hold back the tears.
"Mr. Cale?"
he asked, stepping out of the elevator.
"Yes?"
"I
need you to sign here for your package."
"Where is it?"
He pulled a large envelope from his backpack, it had Logan's address
on it, but it looked like it had been written in a hurry, and there
was no return address. "Do you know who it is from?" Logan
asked as he signed the paper.
"Nope. It was dropped off a
week ago, and we were told to deliver it today, not before or after.
Sorry."
"That's ok." Logan turned and went back
inside, thinking. 'That would be a trick Max would pull. Is it from
her?' He went to his desk and opened the envelope. Inside were a
piece of paper and a picture of Max. It was a shot from the shoulders
up, and it looked like she was in front of a building, but it could
have been any building in any city in America. 'It could easily be
this one.' He thought, feeling the pain of losing her come back.
Logan looked at the piece of paper. On it were written two words:
"I'm sorry"
'Ten months and not a word, now this.'
Logan thought, the tears rolling down his face. He looked for a
postmark, but there was none. Absolutely no clue as to where she
could be. 'Typical Max.'
He threw the envelope in the garbage,
and then took the picture with him to the kitchen to start dinner.
He was just about to start eating, when he heard a knock on the
door. The only way anyone could get up to his apartment was climb,
unless it was security or someone else in the building, so he went to
check it out. Logan went to the door and opened it, but there was no
one there, only a large plastic storage tub with no lid. He looked
inside, but all that he could see was blankets. 'Did someone forget
their laundry?' he thought, until it started moving. Then he noticed
there was a baby inside all those blankets...
To be continued...
