A New Beginning Part 2
Downstairs, Micki was getting off the phone with a moving company when Everett and Monte, (Everett's forty-two-year-old brother) stepped through the door while each holding an end to a large crate. Chloe Diaz (Everett's thirty-nine-year-old sister) and Dennis (Everett's sixty-seven-year-old dad) stepped through the door after them. Everett and Monte were both 5' 11", Dennis was 5' 10" and Chloe was 5' 5" while barefooted. However, Chloe wasn't barefooted. She was wearing three-inch high-heel ankle boots.
Micki moved closer towards them while asking, "What's going on, Everett?"
"Until we can find a suitable and safe place to store the cursed items that we have once again collected, we were hoping that you would store this crate here, with the ones you had collected," Everett said as he and Monte were putting down the crate.
Micki pursed her lips before gesturing and saying, "You can move the crate by my desk and I'll have Jason to secure the curios inside when he gets back later."
"If these curios—as you call them—are in fact psychically calling out to nearby people as you told my son last night, it might be better to get them in your storage area before these objects can find their next victim," Dennis replied before his focus fell onto Melanie as she stepped onto the mid-level balcony from the door leading to Micki's home.
"Mr. Clancy, I don't know you, so I have only your word that the curios in the crate are cursed, and…" Micki was only able to get out.
"They're cursed, Micki," Melanie interrupted as she made her way down the stairs. "I can feel it. Also…"
Melanie stopped in her tracks (talking and descending the stairs) when the door to the shop opened, and a slight disturbed expression came quickly across her face when a blonde haired woman who stood 5' 11" took several steps into the shop and stopped. A muscular, light brown haired man who stood 6' 4" stepped through the door behind the woman.
The woman wore a stylish blue gown and flat roman sandals.
The man wore navy blue shorts with a navy blue belt, a white short-sleeve button-up shirt and brown gladiator sandals. Attached to the belt was a moderate size drawstring, leather coin pouch.
The woman's light blue eyes locked onto Melanie's eyes and Melanie's disturbed expression deepened.
The woman then slightly sighed as Micki turned towards Melanie and asked, "Are you okay, Melanie?"
"None of us are okay," Melanie replied while staring at the woman.
The man gave curious looks from the woman to Melanie before asking Melanie, "Aren't you feeling bliss."
"I'm feeling what you want me to feel and I don't trust it," Melanie replied while remaining midway up the stairs.
"What's going on?" Monte asked.
"Melanie, the young lady on the stairs, is a strong psychic and she is sensing something about my brother and me that she doesn't quite comprehend," the woman replied.
"I can see earthbound spirits, and earthbound spirits to me appear as solid as any other person around me," Melanie informed. "I also know when a spirit is a spirit by the sensation that I feel when I'm around one, and not only am I sensing that you two are spirits, I'm sensing that you two are powerful spirits."
"Melanie, these two people aren't spirits," Everett told her.
"They're not human either," Melanie quickly said. "And powerful spirits is the closest thing I can sense them being."
"Who are you two?" Micki demanded to know.
"We were hoping to do this privately with you, Micki, and as discreetly as possible, but I don't see that happening now," the woman began. "I'm Athena and this is my brother Hermes."
Chloe chuckled slightly before saying, "Your parents must really like Greek mythology to name you after the Gods."
"We weren't named after the Gods, Chloe, we are the Gods," Hermes replied.
"A cosmic imbalance as occurred in the world and the Fates had pinpointed the imbalance to this location," Athena added.
"You two are here because of Lizzy," Melanie replied.
"Yes, we're here because of her," Athena replied. "Her presence is causing a bit of an upheaval."
"Upheaval or not, Lizzy is my granddaughter and she's here to stay," Micki replied as if to make a stand.
"Micki, you know as well as me that Lizzy isn't truly your granddaughter," Athena told her.
"She is my granddaughter," Micki replied. "I don't care how she got here; she's here and I'll protect her with my life."
"I'm sorry, Micki, but who will you protect with your life?" Athena questioned as if what Micki had previously said was unclear.
"I…" Micki was only able to say before acting stumped. Melanie, Everett, Monte, Chloe and Dennis disturbingly watched. "I'm sorry, what did you asked."
"You told me that you will protect someone with your life," Athena informed.
"I did?" Micki questioned. "Odd, I don't remember saying that."
"You were talking about Lizzy," Melanie supplied as she resumed her descent down the steps.
Micki thought for a moment before asking, "Who's Lizzy?"
Melanie reached the bottom of the steps, and as she was facing Athena, she demanded to know, "What did you do to Micki?"
"They didn't do anything to me," Micki replied in a confused tone.
"I did do something to you, Micki. I removed your memories of your granddaughter, Lizzy," Athena informed.
Micki, as if she was suddenly aware of the situation, moved towards the steps while uttering, "Oh my God, Lizzy."
"Lizzy is upstairs and watching television," Athena told Micki. Micki stopped moving towards the stairs and faced Athena. "I'm not interested in taking Lizzy or people's memories of her unless I absolutely have to."
Micki shot Athena a curious look before accusing, "You want something from me and you will exchange what I have for Lizzy."
"You're very astute," Athena sincerely praised. "There is something my family and I need from you, but it's not any of your cursed curios, so you can stop holding your breath and breathe easy."
"What else do I have that you want if it's not cursed curios?" Micki quickly questioned.
"Your service," Athena simply replied.
"My service?" Micki questioned.
"Six half-mortals… or six demigods as mortals would call them, have broken into my family's vault and had stolen precious wood, leather, pelt, metals and gems and then fled here to the mortal realm. Hermes and I have captured the six thieves, but not before they had transformed the wood, leather, pelt, metals and gems into pieces of jewelry and trinkets and distributed them among mortals."
"They're not normal pieces of jewelry and trinkets though, are they?" Micki questioned.
"Each piece of jewelry and each trinket has a supernatural trait about it, and unlike those cursed curios that you had collected, the jewelry and those trinkets don't need someone to die for them to work," Athena replied.
"What kind of supernatural traits do the jewelry and trinkets have?" Dennis was the one to ask.
Athena pursed her lips, and as she considered not answering, Melanie moaned as if to overcome severe pain and dropped to her knees with a crippling headache.
"Melanie," Micki uttered as she rushed to her side. Athena and Hermes stared at her with pursed lips; as if they knew what had happened to her and were helpless to stop it. Dennis, Everett, Monte and Chloe just watched with helpless looks on their faces. "What is it?"
Melanie slightly hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'll be alright in a minute. A series of strong visions hit me all at once, and my visions were about people being able to levitate, teleport, shapeshift, regenerate lost limb, supernaturally heal the sick and wounded and resurrect the dead."
"Your visions are quite accurate, Melanie," Athena admitted. "Those pieces of jewelry and trinkets that those half-mortal thieves had distributed will allow mortals to do all those things and more. Micki, you have experience with tracking down cursed curios and removing them from the public. So I would like you to retrieve those supernatural jewelry and trinkets for me."
Melanie stood again as Micki questioned, "And in exchange for my service you will allow my granddaughter to stay here with me?"
"Lizzy will remained with you, but since you had never given birth in your existing reality, alterations to people's memories will have to be made, and once those memories are implanted, you will not be Lizzy's grandmother," Athena replied.
"Okay, then who will I be to Lizzy?" Micki quickly asked.
"I will answer your question in a moment, but first I'm sure that you are aware that you're not as sprightly as you were several years ago," Athena told Micki.
"Yes, I'm aware of that fact," Micki quickly replied. "But I'm not exactly ready for the pastures either."
"True as that is, Micki, for you to retrieve those pieces of jewelry and trinkets, you will need to be at your peak; therefore, I will be giving you twenty-eight years and five months of your youth back to you," Athena informed.
"Twenty-eight years and five months," Micki echoed before doing a quick calculation in her head. "You want to turn me into a thirty-one-year and ten-month old woman again."
"Yes, turning you into a thirty-one-year and ten-month old woman would be the right age for the desired outcome," Athena informed.
"The desired outcome would be me finding your jewelry and trinkets, is it not?" Micki quickly questioned. "So what would it matter if I was slightly older or younger than that."
"Micki, thirty-one years and ten months old is also the age you need to be, to be Lloyd Senior's daughter and Lizzy's mother," Melanie was the one to point out.
"Lloyd's Daughter; then that would mean…" As Micki thought of what that had meant, she turned towards Athena. "Wait, you want me to become my own daughter?"
"Yes," Athena replied, "and once it is done, you will, at first, have your original memories and the memories of being Micki's daughter; however, your original memories will quickly fade into vague dream-like memories and within twenty-four hours they will be gone completely. Also, since I don't want to give Melanie a psychic puzzle for her to solve, Melanie's memories of who you were will go untouched for now, but for everyone who had come into contact with you, you will be Micki's daughter and Lizzy's mother. And if you want Lizzy to remain with you, then turning you into Lizzy's mother is nonnegotiable."
"And where will people believe me to be once you turn me into a… into a thirty-one year old woman?" Micki quickly asked.
"You were involved in a serious car accident seven years ago that had damaged a good section of your liver," Athena began. "So once I turn you into a thirty-one year old woman, everyone who knows you as Micki will believe that you had damaged your entire liver and died, and you, being Micki's daughter, had inherited the store. So which will it be, Micki? Will you become Lizzy's mother or do I restore balance to this reality as it once was?"
"If being Lizzy's mother is the only way I can keep her in my life, then do it, but I don't want you to give Lloyd any memories of me being his daughter," Micki replied. "I hadn't seen Lloyd since our relationship had ended, so as far as I'm concern, I—I as my original self—had raised his daughter without him knowing that he had a daughter."
"I can do that," Athena replied. "Anyway, what will your name be?"
"I actually like my name as Micki," she replied. "And I do know a mother and daughter with the same first and middle name. So I would like to keep my name if I could."
"Implanting memories would most likely fail if you keep your name as Micki," Athena replied. "However, changing your name to Nicki would be enough to make the memory implants work."
"Okay, fine," Micki replied. "Rename me as Nicole… pff, I don't know. Nicole Allison Foster with my nickname as being Nicki."
Athena nodded her head and then after a flash of her eyes, Micki acted as if she was having a severe migraine.
Melanie, Dennis, Everett, Monte and Chloe watched with concern and slightly squeamish expressions on their faces as Micki massaged her temples and regressed in age; one year for every six seconds.
During the passing three minutes and twenty-one seconds, Micki—while enduring a severe migraine—had gone from being a sixty-year and three-month old woman who stood 5' 7" to being Nicki, a woman who stood 5' 11" and looked to be in her mid-twenties. Also her shoulder length hair grew slightly longer and her recently trimmed fingernails grew out longer as well. Her clothes were even altered to fit her.
Soon after the age regression and migraine had completely ended, Athena informed, "Done, and I gave you five additional years of your youth back, Nicki. As far as the populous of the world is concern, you are two months from turning thirty-two, but physically you are two months from turning twenty-seven."
"Thanks," Nicki appreciatively said. She then concentrated on her thoughts for a moment. "Are my memories supposed to be distorted though?"
"How are they distorted?" Chloe was the one to ask.
Nicki thought for a moment before saying, "I have my original memories and I have memories of being Nicki. It's all confusing."
"In about an hour, your memories as Nicki will completely overshadow your original memories, so any confusion you feel right now will diminish quickly," Athena informed.
Nicki nodded for a moment before coming completely still, as if a frightening thought came over her.
"What's wrong, Mick… I mean, Nicki?" Melanie asked.
Nicki moved quickly to a nearby mirror that was for sale and looked at her reflection.
Nicki had the slender body, the full lips, the hazel eyes and the red hair as when she was Micki, but her remaining features were different."
"The woman in the mirror is not me; this was not how I looked when I was thirty-one… or even when I was twenty-seven," Nicki said while facing Athena.
"You are no longer Micki, and how you look now is how you would have looked if you were, in fact, Micki and Lloyd's daughter and Lizzy's mother." Athena replied. "Also if someone would test your DNA, your DNA will show you as being Micki and Lloyd's daughter and Lizzy's mother."
"So you had truly turned me into Nicki," she replied.
"It had to be done this way in order to balance out this reality," Athena replied. "However, I did take the liberty and made you a few inches taller. You're 5' 11', but you would have been 5' 8".
"I would have been okay with being 5' 8'," Nicki replied.
"Trust me; being 5' 11" will benefit you," Athena informed.
"Oddly enough, I do trust you," Nicki told Athena.
Athena grinned as she continued to say, "Also, because of some of the trinkets you will be going after, I augmented your strength. So although you look like you have average strength, you are actually twice as strong as the average man."
"Okay, thanks," Nicki replied in a gracious tone.
Athena nodded with a slight grin before saying, "Anyway, to help you to adjust to your new role, I will be referring to your past actions as your mom's past actions."
"Okay," Nicki replied in an uncertain tone.
"How often do you rewrite history?" Melanie asked.
"We never rewrite history; however, Lewis Vendredi isn't the first sorcerer to time travel and cause a cosmic imbalance," Athena began. "Normally my siblings and I will put events back on their natural course, but there was one other time besides this one where we had fixed an imbalance by altering people's memories to accommodate the cosmic imbalance rather than putting a course of events back as they should have been."
"When was the first time?" Melanie asked.
"A very, very long time ago and you don't need to know more than that," Athena told Melanie.
"I'm just curious," Melanie replied.
"It's good to be curious; it helps you learn, but I can't satisfy your curiosity this time," Athena replied.
Melanie shrugged while saying, "It's fine."
"Athena, perhaps you can satisfy my curiosity on something," Nicki began. "Since I'm now Lizzy's mother; who's Lizzy's father."
"You already know the answer to that, Nicki," Athena replied. "Think back nine years ago, just before you got pregnant with Lizzy. Who were you dating?"
"I didn't…" Nicki turned quiet as her memories surfaced, as if automatically. After being quiet for a brief moment, Nicki continued to say, "I have memories of dating a man named Matthew Tanner. We began dating during my freshmen year in college. He and I lived in Normal, Illinois. Illinois State University is where he and I completed prelaw and law school together. Matt and I had gotten engage soon after we had passed our bar exams, but before we could walk down the aisle… or even find work as lawyers, he was shot and killed by a carjacker. A couple of weeks later, I learned that I was pregnant and Mom convinced me to move back here. I'm an attorney, but instead of practicing law, I run this shop. I know none of that is true, but those memories seemed very real to me."
"As far as you and the populous of the world are concerned, everything you said is true and those memories are very real," Athena replied.
"Okay, but did Matt ever existed?" Nicki quickly asked.
"Matt had been conceived in this reality and in Lizzy's reality, but his mother—Lizzy's grandmother—was seventeen and had aborted the pregnancy soon after she had found out that she was pregnant," Athena replied. "Two years later, and from the same man, Lizzy's grandmother had gotten pregnant with Lizzy's mother."
"So you're replacing the son who I never had in this reality with… with the new me, and Lizzy's real mom is being replaced by Lizzy's unborn uncle for Lizzy's parents," Nicki commented as if to get her facts straight in her head.
"Correct," Athena replied.
"Matt was adopted though," Nicki said as the thought came to her, and as if it was a fact. "He never knew his biological parents and his adopted parents were killed in a car accident soon after Lizzy was born."
"Excellent, Nicki," Athena praised. "Your memories seem to be flowing well, but to be absolutely sure, tell me the day and month that you were born."
"August 8th," Nicki said without putting any thought into her answer. "Although, I was three weeks premature. My mom's due date was August 30th."
Athena nodded with a grin before saying, "Something had happened to you, Nicki, just one week before your tenth birthday. What was it?"
Without putting too much thought into her response, Nicki replied, "I followed a stray cat into a condemned building that was scheduled to be demolished within twenty-four hours. After entering, the rotted floor gave way and I fell through the floor and severely spraining my ankle when I hit the basement floor. I then mostly sat where I had fallen for the ten hours that it took for a police officer to find me."
"And what did your mom do when you were reunited with her?" Athena asked.
Nicki slightly hesitated before saying, "She scolded me for going into the condemned building, and then she held me tight and told me how much I had worried her."
"Yes, your memories are flowing nicely," Athena said. "Anyway, Nicki, to get back on the subject as to why my brother and I had interrupted you and your associates…"
"Mr. Clancy and his family are not my associates," Nicki told Athena while glancing at Dennis. Dennis and his adult children and Hermes were simply watching the exchange between Nicki and Athena. "They brought in a large crate for me to store for them."
"I'm aware as to why they are here, Nicki," Athena replied with a slight grin. "And like you, they are also good at tracking down cursed curios."
"Like me? My mom was the one who…" Nicki became quiet when she realized of what she was saying.
"You should not have stopped yourself from correcting me, Nicki," Athena replied. "Because you're quite right. Your mom, Jack and Johnny were the ones who had tracked down those cursed curios and they had collected all of them before your seventh birthday. In fact, you were a freshman in high school when you learned about them and you learned about them from one of your teachers."
Nicki thought for a moment before saying, "I learned about them from Mrs. Hendrix—my algebra teacher. Mom had saved Mrs. Hendrix from a cursed tennis racket ten years before that."
"Yes," Athena agreed. "Anyway, to get back on the subject as to why my brother and I are here, we would like for you to find those trinkets and those pieces of jewelry for us and retrieve them."
"Of course I will help you and your brother, Athena," Nicki told her. "But how can I tell the difference between a cursed object and one of the objects that you are looking for?"
"The objects I'm looking for may or may not leave behind a body or two, but they won't leave behind a long trail of bodies as those cursed objects will. Other than that, they will act the same way as those cursed objects," Athena began. "However, you really won't need to distinguish between the two. I'll give you a necklace for you to wear and that necklace will directly alert me when you have found an object that doesn't belong to this world."
"Okay," Nicki replied with a nod and thinking about what had been said.
Athena gestured towards Dennis and his family and said, "When I first arrived, I saw that you were skeptical towards them and their intentions, but don't be. They have the same mission as your mom and Jack had. They can be a great help to you, Jason and Melanie."
"Okay," Nicki replied in an accepting tone.
"Anyway, I will give you and Melanie each a necklace to wear and then Hermes and I will go," Athena said before facing Hermes and holding out her hand.
"What about the four of us?" Dennis asked Athena as Hermes reached into his pouch. "Do we get necklaces?"
As Hermes was pulling out the two necklaces, each with an emerald teardrop crystal, Athena replied, "Dennis, when Hermes and I leave, Nicki and Melanie will be the only two who will remember the truth about Hermes and me. So you and your kids won't even know why you were each given a necklace anyway."
"You're going to erase our memories?" Chloe quickly asked.
"I will be exchanging your memories," Athena told Chloe as she took the necklaces from Hermes.
"What exactly does that mean?" Chloe again quickly asked.
"You will remember me and my brother, but you will only remember us as customers who are looking for specific pieces of jewelry and trinkets," Athena began. "You will also remember Nicki going the extra mile and volunteering to help me track down those pieces of jewelry and trinkets."
"Why alter our memories?" Everett asked.
"I can't very well have mortals knowing the truth about me, Hermes and the other Olympians and spreading the knowledge of our existence," Athena replied.
"We wouldn't do that," Chloe quickly said.
"As sincere as you are right now—and I know for a fact that you are sincere—your sincerity could change at any time in the future," Athena replied. "I'm sorry, Chloe, but you and your family can't keep the knowledge about me and my brother coming here."
"But Nicki and Melanie can keep their memories?" Chloe quickly asked, as if to call foul.
"Since my business is with Nicki, for now, she gets to keep her memories of me and my brother," Athena replied. "And altering Melanie's memories at this point will only cause her to have psychic dreams about me, Hermes and the other Olympians. Those dreams will make Melanie to seek answers, so for right now, Melanie gets to keep her memories as well."
"It's fine," Dennis quickly told Athena and shooting looks to his children as if to tell them to stop protesting. "I understand why you two and the other Olympians would want to keep your existence a secret. So I'm okay with you altering my memory. Of course it really doesn't matter if I'm okay with it or not, does it?"
"It doesn't," Athena told Dennis with a polite grin. "However, I do appreciate your understanding."
Dennis acknowledged Athena with a polite grin and a head nod.
Athena turned and handed Nicki a necklace. As Nicki was putting on her necklace, Athena handed Melanie the remaining necklace.
After Melanie had put on her necklace, Athena and Hermes exchanged their departing pleasantries with Nicki, Melanie, Dennis, Everett, Monte and Chloe and left.
Once the door had closed behind Athena and Hermes, Dennis, Everett, Monte and Chloe abruptly acted as if they had recovered from a stupor.
"Anyway, Nicki, if these cursed objects are psychically calling out to nearby people then shouldn't they go into your storage area sooner rather than later?" Dennis asked.
"And they are definitely cursed, Nicki," Melanie added while glancing towards the exit. "In fact, the collective evil I feel from them has my inner alarm buzzy like crazy, and I have no doubt that customers who would come in would be drawn to it."
"All right; you're right, Mr. Clancy," Nicki told him.
"Please, Nicki, call me Dennis," he replied.
"Okay, Dennis," Nicki began. "You and your sons can follow me with the crate."
"Get the crate," Dennis told Everett and Monte.
Everett and Monte picked up the crate and then followed Nicki through the store.
Melanie and Chloe remained out front and after a short silence, Chloe asked Melanie, "So what kind of music do you listen to?"
Melanie slightly grinned before answering her.
As Nicki led Dennis, Everett and Monte towards the vault door, Dennis commented, "You have a nice setup down here. How thick are those doors to that storage room?"
"That's more of a vault than a storage room, and it's thick; however, there is no room for your items within that vault," Nicki replied. "There is a second vault though, that does have room for your cursed items."
"Okay," Dennis replied. "So where's the second vault?"
"Below us," Nicki replied before bending down and grabbing the proper end of the door—a door that looked like a decorative floor plate.
The door hinged on the opposite side of where Nicki had grabbed it, and once the door was open, Nicki told them, "You three won't be able to get that big crate down those steps. So you three will have to carry down the items one or two at a time."
"We'll get busy on that, and you can go manage your store, Nicki," Dennis told her.
"Dennis, I feel as though that I'm taking a huge risk by, by not only showing you and your sons where my two vaults are, but by giving you and your sons access to them," Nicki began as Everett and Monte was easing down the crate next to the stairs that led down. "Please, please don't make me regret doing that."
"I can see that you have your doubts about us, Nicki, but I swear, we are on the same side," Dennis replied.
"Yes, well, my mom had shared stories with me about how she had trusted certain people with the secrets to the vault and had lived to regret those times," Nicki replied.
"As to how strong your doubts are of us, one would think that it was you who had trusted the wrong people," Monte commented.
"Monte, any cursed item has a force to it that should not be messed with, so if I was in Nicki's situation, I would be very cautious of three strangers as well," Dennis replied. "In fact, Nicki, it's fine with me if you would like to stay and watch us as we unload the crate."
Nicki considered it for a moment before shaking her head and saying, "Actually, I really need to be upstairs in case customers come in. Also I should see what my daughter is doing. So put the items wherever you can find room for them, and let me know when you're are through."
"Will do," Dennis and Monte said.
Nicki nodded with a polite grin before turning towards the stairs that led from the basement and walking away.
Upstairs, Melanie and Chloe were discussing Country music.
Nicki heard that they were talking about songs as she approached them, but she only recognized a few songs that were mentioned.
"Nicki, do you like Country music?" Melanie asked when she saw her approaching.
"It's okay," Nicki replied as she joined Melanie and Chloe. "Why?"
"Chloe and I are discussing Old Country versus New Country," Melanie replied.
"I only consider Country songs that were recorded before the 1990s… and maybe a few songs that were recorded during the 1990s as being Country music—or what I like to say as being True Country," Chloe added. "The songs that have been recorded after the 1990s are something other than Country music even though the people who are producing them are labeling them as Country music."
Melanie shrugged before adding, "Well, most of my favorite Country songs are from the 1950s to the 1980s—so you and I do have that in common—but I also like some of Maranda Lampert's songs and some of Carrie Underwood's songs as well, regardless if their songs are not truly Country. So what kind of music do you like, Nicki?"
"Actually I like and dislike music from every genre about equally," Nicki began. "So I don't consider myself a fan to a specific genre, and the CDs that are in my car are actually mixed CDs of the music that I do like the most. Anyway, Chloe, the crate that you and your family had brought in is too big for either of my vaults. So your dad and brothers are transferring the items from the crate to my second vault, and they might be a few minutes before they're through."
"Okay," Chloe said. "Do you mind if I browse around and see what all you sell?"
"Not at all," Nicki replied.
"Thanks," Chloe said before turning and walking towards a bookcase.
"Melanie, I'm going upstairs for a moment and check on Lizzy, and if any customers come in while I'm upstairs, just let them know that I'll be down shortly," Nicki told her.
"Will do," Melanie replied before Nicki could turn and walk away.
Melanie rejoined Chloe and continued her discussion about Country music and Country musicians.
It didn't take Dennis, Everett and Monte long to transfer all of the items from the crate to the underground vault, and after Dennis told Nicki that they were done, Nicki did a quick check on what was added, as well as making sure that nothing was removed.
Once Nicki was satisfied that the new items were safely in the vault and the old items were still in their proper places, Dennis told Nicki where he and his family were going next.
After Dennis, Everett, Monte and Chloe left the shop, Nicki began training Melanie.