Lester's Notes
Chapter 21
JE owns them and makes all the money,
We borrow them, play with them and return most of them.HEY OUT THERE - WHO DID NOT RETURN LESTER…I NEED HIM FOR THIS STORY….He is gone. My Lester was not returned in a timely fashion. I called JE and she does not know where he is and she hasn't received a ransom note.
I have checked with a few of you who love him like I do and none of you have seen him either.
I checked with Ranger and he didn't send him to any third world country this time, when he had Grandma duty. He called Cal into the office and he said he hadn't seen him since yesterday when he brought him back to Haywood. Ranger watched Cal try to walk and called him back. He said he changed his mind and was going to order the Kevlar boxers that Lester kept requesting. He hoped Lester would show up and be able to wear them.
Steph has locked herself in their apartment and you can hear her sobbing all the way out in the hallway. Tank called Lula to come sit with Steph while they waited. When Lula knocked on the door, Steph opened the door and pulled Lula in. The next thing we heard was Lula sobbing in sync with Steph. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea having Lula come over….
The control room pulled up Lester's trackers - nothing, nada, zip…..
It was like he had never existed.
Tank, Hal, Woody and Manny couldn't stand waiting around and they went looking for Lester. Some how, I don't think checking out all the strip joints and cage bars and casinos qualifies as serious looking since Lester turned in his player card since marrying Steph.
Hector checked out all the gay bars and Levi and Leather bars. When Hector was asked about this he said that Lester did do that distraction last week and was irresistible to the bar patrons and he thought it might be a good idea to do in depth interviews. Rangeman has a Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy concerning Hector and no one wanted to ask Hector anything concerning his in depth interviews.
Cal called the Bonds office and Connie said she hadn't seen Lester and she buzzed Vinnie. Vinnie said he would personally go down to the duck pond and see if he was there. This might be a good time to invoke the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy for Vinnie and the ducks.
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It has been six hours and not a word…where could he be?
We can't file a missing character report till he is gone 12 hours.
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Binkie and Brett found Lester's little black book only make that 12 little black books. They have set about to call every name in his books. They are making dates with every one of the names that has the rating AAA+++ next to their names. If that doesn't turn up anything they will go down a Level to the AAA++ group. Brett was seen grinning and saying "It's a hard job but somebody has to do it."
Lester's sister Ginny showed up to stay with Steph. She assured us she was here to support Steph in anyway she could but she also said if this was a bonehead move on her brother's part - He is dead meat.
I contacted JE again. Lester still has not been returned to her but she did have a blinking light on her answering machine and then the phone was hung up.
We got our first breakthrough …..
There was a faint voice saying "please help m…"
"Can you trace that call?" barked Ranger
"We are narrowing it down…."
"Call everybody back to Haywood"
Ram reported "Steph and Lula have just left the building. Steph was driving so fast she crashed through the security gate."
"Pull up her trackers!"
"Can't she's using Big Blue"
"Dammit, where are you going Babe?"
Ginny ran into the control room screaming "They have kidnapped him!"
"Who has kidnapped him?"
"I don't know. His voice was weak and he wanted Steph to come get him"
Two hours later….
Lula pulled Big Blue into the Haywood garage. Bobby was waiting with Tank who had ended his search of strip joints when he received a call from a very unhappy Lula. They helped Lester out of the car and up to Steph and Lester's apartment. Steph looked shell shocked and relieved at the same time. She held Lester's hand and a single tear rolled down her cheek.
When Tank and Bobby exited the apartment they were mumbling and looked a little green around the gills. When asked what had happened to Lester they shuddered and said it was up to Lester to tell them if he ever recovered from his ordeal…
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A spokesman for the Santos family issued this statement
Mr. Santos was rescued this afternoon by his wife and her best friend Lula.
No further information will be released at this time.
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Lester's note:
If I ever receive an invitation to speak to a group of fans of Lester's notes
I will only meet them in a very public place with armed bodyguards. I will probably never recover mentally from the things they suggested that they wanted to do to me.
I am going to take a vacation with Stephanie to try to recover from this ordeal. Thank you.