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A Shared Secret (part 2)
Just a reminder: These aren't my characters, I'm just borrowing them for a few stories. I hope you enjoy. (And if you don't, don't worry I'm still warming up!) Happy reading. The next paragraph is a summary of part 1. Just incase you forget some parts. Its not nesesary to read the summary. (Sorry if there are any mistakes, no ones perfect)
When on a "mission" for the paper, a women appears and Gary suspects that she also gets the paper. Then Gary has to help her after she becomes unconscious. Gary is suppose to bring her back to her apartment but she falls asleep before she tells Gary where she lives. Part 1 ends when Gary hears a "meow!" plop followed by a "bark" plop.
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Pulling his feet out from under the covers Gary put them on ground, then walked over to the door. Felicity followed.
Opening the door, Gary was amazed at what he saw. Not only was his cat there, but there was also a puppy, who too was sitting on a paper.
Felicity, who had been looking over his shoulder said, "Puddles! What are you doing here?"
"You...you...this is your dog?" Gary asked scratching his head. He seemed to be the only one who was confused. Even the cat and dog seemed to know what was going on.
"Yup! I'm just surprised he found me."
At this point the cat and dog had already run inside, and Felicity was scanning through her paper.
Picking up his paper, Gary walked over to were Felicity was sitting. He tried to skim through his paper also but when he couldn't concentrate he asked, "You get the paper too?"
Yup," answered Felicity, still busy reading her paper she didn't even bother to look up.
"*Tomorrow's* paper?"
"Yup."
"F for how long? Have you been getting it... I I mean."
"Hmmm," Finally looking up from her paper she looked at Gary. Then finished, "Well I got it the day after my Mom died, and that was two years ago, so I've been getting it for about 2 years."
"O..." Gary started but Felicity cut him off.
"Thanks for everything, but I've gotta go. Places to go, people to save. You know..."
"O...um...ok, but?" Gary stuttered.
"Page 17, top left. Be there at 7:30 sharp! See ya tonight." With that she picked up her dog and walked out the door, closing it behind her.
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"Again? How could you be so stupid? Did you even ask for her phone number? Probably not knowing you. Oh! Ya know, this is really getting on my nerves! If..." At this point in Chuck's speech Gary decided to tune him out.
Instead he decided to read the paper. Nothing really caught his attention until he reached page 17. He looked at the top left corner. Expecting to see an article about someone getting hurt or something like that, Gary was surprised to see that it was an ad for a restaurant.
Still a little puzzled he decided to talk to Marissa. Walking out of his office he could hear Chuck call, "Hey! Where do you think you're going?"
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Marissa was sitting at a table near the bar. Gary walked over and sat down across from her. "Its me...I need your opinion."
"O really? Well ok. What is it?" Marissa asked taking a sip of her coffee.
"Well, you know Felicity?"
"If you mean the girl who slept on your couch, then yes, I know who you're talking about." Marissa said trying to hide a smile behind her coffee cup.
"Ha Ha..." Gary retorted. "Yes, well, I was right, she does get the paper too."
"Hmmm..."
"What do you mean 'hmmm'? What happened to the good advice you usually have?" Gary asked nervously.
"Calm down Gary, I was just thinking. Ok... well, do you have any way of finding her?"
"Yeah I'm suppose to meet her at..." he stopped to find the ad, when he found it he continued, "Ches Paris"
"So why do you need my opinion? The answers easy, *go*!"
"You really think so?"
"Yes, you want to find out more about her don't you?"
"Yeah," said Gary uncertainly. Then he looked in his paper one more time, there was an article that grabbed his attention: "5 YEAR OLD GIRL KIDNAPPED FOR RANSOM. "I gotta go. A little girl's gonna get kidnapped. I...Uh...I...Bye."
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Part 5
Gary arrived at Ches Paris at 7:30 sharp. As he walked in the door he saw Felicity, she smiled and waved to him.
"I'm with her," Gary said to the man at the door.
The restaurant was nicely decorated. It was painted to look like an outdoor cafe on the streets of Paris.
"Hey," said Felicity.
""Hi," Gary said back.
"I guess you have a lot of things you wanna ask me." said Felicity while looking a her menu.
"Yeah, um why do you keep "disappearing"? Like the time when there was an explosion, I I turned around when I heard the explosion, and when I I turned back around you were gone. And at the bridge..." At this point Felicity cut in.
Shrugging she said, "I dunno, it seemed like the right thing to do."
"Do you know why..." Gary had to stop because at this moment the waitress came to take their order. When she left he continued.
"Do you have any idea why your newspaper said that I was gonna die but mine still said those kids were, when they weren't even home?"
Felicity giggled when she realized he had said that all in one breath. Gary laughed too, he had been talking to Marissa too much and her excellent talking abilities must have been rubbing off on him.
"I don't know but there must have been a good reason." Felicity said finally.
After dinner Gary walked Felicity back to her apartment. When they reached the door, Felicity slipped her hand into Gary's. Kissing his check she said. "Thanks, see you tomorrow." Then she opened the door and disappeared into her apartment.
As he walked away Gary realized that he had something in his hand. It was a piece of paper. He unfolded it and read it to himself. It said: LIVE YOUR LIFE!
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"Gary, there's someone here to see you," said Marissa as she entered the tiny office, where Gary was sitting with papers scattered on his desk.
"Ok, I'll be there in a minute, thanks Marissa." Putting his pen down, Gary stood up and walked out of the office. A girl was sitting at the bar, smiling he recognized her as Felicity. Running his hand through his hair he walked over and sat down next to her.
"I need to talk to you," said Felicity without even saying hello.
"Ok. What do you wanna talk about?"
"Well..." Felicity started, but stopped when someone called for Gary saying it was important.
"I'm sorry, I'll be right back." said Gary standing up. "Stay here."
A few minutes later he came out, seeing that Felicity was gone, he ran outside. He spotted her across the street. She waved at him, and Gary tried to call to her but a car passed by blocking his view. When the car left Felicity was no where insight. Frustrated Gary walked inside.
"Mr. Hobson?" called one of the waitresses. When he reached her, she handed him a napkin. "The women you were talking left this for you."
"Thanks he said taking the napkin. Reading it to him self a few times he shoved it into his coat pocket. It said: GARY, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. YOU'RE REALLY NICE. I WISH I COULD STAY LONGER BUT I HAVE TO GO. DON'T FORGET TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. LOVE - FELICITY.
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Part 6
At 10:00 he had to stop a robbery, and by the time he got home it was late. Climbing into bed he thought about what the note said and about everything that had happened in the last few days.
The next thing Gary knew, he was being awaken by the familiar: "Meow!" plop.
Scanning threw the paper Gary found that all he had to do was help a guy who hits his head while in the bath tub and drowns. Saving a guy while he is in the tub wasn't exactly what Gary wanted to be doing, but if it was in the paper, it had to be important.
Heading downstairs Gary hoped that for some strange reason the man would wear a bathing suit while bathing today.
Business at McGinty's was slow so Gary, Marissa and Chuck decided to go out for lunch. It was a nice day so they walked instead of taking the El. They were about a block away from the place they were going to eat at, when a man came running by, as he brushed past Marissa he grabbed her purse and continued running. "Hey!" Gary called after the man. Starting to jog away he called over his shoulder, "I'll meet you at the diner!" Then he sped up and continued to chase after the man.
Running as fast as he could, Gary almost didn't see the ladder in front of him. He tried to run around it but his foot caught on the ladder and it fell. Before he knew what hit him, he was covered with paint. Just then the painter came out from the building carrying a handful of clean brushes. When he saw the mess he yelled to Gary, "What the?"
"I'm sorry, really, I I..." Gary started to say, but stopped when he saw that he had dropped his newspaper. Picking it up he realized that the article had changed to: MAN BREAKS LEG AFTER SLIPPING IN SPILLED PAINT.
At that moment Gary saw the man coming, he was busy reading a magazine. Finding the man's name Gary called, "Mr. Stevenson! Mr. Stevenson! Watch out!"
The man stopped and looked up to see who was calling him. Then Gary called again "Your gonna step in paint!"
Looking at Gary and then at the paint on the ground, the man said "O...Thanks." Then walked around the paint and went back to reading his newspaper.
Sighing Gary noticed that a women was standing next to him. She was very pretty, with blonde hair and baby blue eyes. She seemed concerned about something. Finally she said to him, "Are you all right?"
"Yeah," answered Gary studying her face. Thinking to himself that he hoped she was single.
"But your head? Its bleeding."
Gary touched his head and then looked at his hand, he noticed for the first time that it was bleeding. "O...yeah well," He started to say but the girl cut him off.
"Come on. My apartments only a few blocks away, lets go get a bandage for your head, and clean that paint off."
"All right." He said smiling, what an easy way to get a date.
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The end. What did you think? Please tell me! Don't forget to look for my other stories. Coming soon.