Chapter 32: Mystery Man, part 1!
LATER THAT MORNING!
About 11:10 am.
Simon, Mary-Anne and Vince were on their way back to pick up Jeanette and Tom from the clinic. Simon manages to take this opportunity to get some other earns done. They even made a quick stop at the library. Simon, and his two little ones, returned some previous books and from there they decided to pick out some new ones to read later. After they were done, Simon realised the time. Quickly he took Vince and Mary back to the car and hurried back to the clinic office knowing that he is already late by ten minuets.
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MEANWHILE.
Jeanette had just come out of the pharmacy with little Tom in her arms. The pharmacy happens to be located two doors down from the clinic, conveniently in the same Strip Mall. The doctor prescribed Tom with a special medicine that will sooth his ear infection, plus to also rid him of the nasty cold. Jeanette looks at Tom and smiles, knowing that he will soon feel better thanks to the medicine.
At this point Jeanette suddenly has a strange feeling. Originally she thought that Simon would already be here and waiting for her to get out of the store. To her discouragement, he is nowhere to be seen. She turns her head; still looking around she notices a strange man standing at the other end of the parking lot. He had been following her all morning. The man wore a green hooded army style coat. His hood of the jacket covered most of his face in a shadow.
Jeanette first noticed him as she and her son came out of the clinic. Then it seemed that this stranger had been stalking her in the pharmacy. For a while he seemed to have disappeared as she was purchasing the medicine. But now he is standing at the other end of the parking lot.
Whoever this man is, she didn't like the idea that him following her. She turned and watched the traffic as it carried on in both directions. Jeanette nervously checked the time on her watch and looks over her shoulder carefully, then faced her son.
"Where is your father?" She sighed.
Tom looked back at her as if to say, 'how should I know'. He then groaned and laid his head against his mom's chest in hopes that would stop the pain in his ear.
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BACK IN THE TRAFFIC.
Needless to say, Simon is starting to get really frustrated with the busy traffic. He had finally arrived to the main street and was going to make a right hand turn. Quickly he glances in the rear view mirror and sees Mary- Anne and Vincent quietly listening to the children's tunes that he is playing in the tape player. Vincent is playing with the plastic toys that were attached to his child seat, and Mary-Anne is looking out the window on her left.
Simon smiles, "we're almost there, you guys!" He says, trying to stay cheerful.
As Simon is about to ready himself to make a turn right, a big truck pulled up on his left and stopped when the light turned red. This, of course, blocks Simon's view from on coming traffic. Slowly, he inched his way outward to see if it is safe to pull out. The traffic seems to be safe and starts to pull out more.
Just then Mary-Anne screams, "DADDY, STOP!!"
Simon slammed on the breaks. "What?"
Everything starts happening all at once. A car, that seems to have come out of nowhere, screeches as it hits the backside of another vehicle. It then flips and lands a foot in front of Simon's car.
Simon just froze. His hands are tightly gripping on the steering wheel. He sat there as he got his bearings together. Simon breath quickens as he tries to calculate on what had just happened.
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Again Jeanette turns and sees the stranger hasn't moved from his spot across the parking lot. Yet he still makes her incredibly nervous. She checks the time on her watch, again. Already Simon is twenty minuets late. She holds her son closer and let out a light growl.
"That's it, we're giving him a call." She finally says. Jeanette turns towards the clinic and carries her son back in. She asks the clerk to see if she could use the phone.
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At the accident scene, Simon finally got his bearings together and just finished talking to the 911 operators from his new cell phone he purchased recently. He quickly checks on the injured driver in the car and defiantly sees that he is in bad shape. Three other witnesses are trying to talk to the man to help him stay alive. So far, they mostly they get a muffled noise coming from his lips.
As Simon stands up straight he looks over to the curb across the street. There he notices a man dressed in a black suit standing and looking quite annoyed about something. Simon recognized him to be the same strange man from the park over a year ago when he talked with Ashley, Brian's sister. He looked disappointed, like something was suppose to happen, but didn't.
This of course made Simon even more nervous. The threats that were made to him a few years back were becoming more of a reality each day. He looked at his car and notices his kids were still inside. Vincent is fidgeting with his seat belt, trying to escape from his prison. "I want out!!" He cried.
Simon turned to the street corner and saw that the strange man is now disappeared. "Daddy! I want out!!" Vincent continues to wine.
Just then Simon cell phone rings. "Hello?" Simon answers with a shaky tone. "Jeanette? Oh God, I'm sorry. No, it's just that there was this accident. We're alright, a little shaken, but alright. What? There's a stranger following you.? Ok, hang tight. I am kind of stuck here, so I'll call Alvin and get him to pick you up. You stay in the clinic till he arrives. Love you, too."
Simon almost blacked after his talk with Jeanette. Now it seems that the Illuminati are stalking his wife and son while they are trying to kill him and his other two children.
He finally comes back to the present situation and calls home.
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"Hello?!" Chirps Alvin as he picks up the receiver. "Oh, hi Simon. What.? Ok, wait.! What are you talking about you've been in a car accident.? Oh, so technically you're stuck, because a car has flipped over right in front of you. Are you and kids alright.? Are you sure about that.? Gees, you don't need to yell.! You want me to do what.? Alright, alright, alright, don't worry! I'll pick up Jeanette. Everything will be fine.! What about you and Mary and Vince.? You sure.? Ok, I'm off then.!"
Immediately after talking to Simon, Alvin grabbed his car keys and drives off to the clinic to pick up Jeanette and Tom.
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Simon ended his call to Alvin and again views the accident. As he looked at the flipped car and the people surrounding the driver's side of it and looked at the front of his car, 'man, that car came close.' He thought.
All of a sudden, he started to realize something. 'If I hadn't stopped when I did that could have been us underneath that car!'
He turned to check on his kids; Vincent was still fussing with his seatbelt and was really starting to get upset by it. Mary-Anne quietly stares at the window. He was suddenly curious as to why Mary-Anne would suddenly tell him to stop; Simon went back into his car.
"Daddy! I want out!!" Vincent screamed.
"Not now, Vincent!" Simon replied as he tried to get Mary-Anne's attention.
"Whaaa!" Vincent whaled in protest.
"Vincent, nobody likes a whiner! Now quit it!!" Simon said in an agitated tone.
"I want Mommy!"
Simon closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He was not in the mood to hear Vincent's whining and a part of him felt like just smacking him across the face, but he held back from doing that.
"I said, NOT NOW!!" He bellowed.
Vincent continued his pout while Simon calmed himself before trying to talk to Mary.
"Mary? Mary, honey?" Simon started as he gently shook her arm, but she still kept looking at the window.
"Sweetie.Look at me!"
Finally she slowly turned her head and looked up at her father.
"Mary, why did you tell Daddy to stop?"
She started to look away again as if she was trying to avoid the question.
"Mary, honey! Answer me! Do you remember why you said that?"
"The Angel told me!" She finally answered quietly, still looking at the window.
"An Angel told you?" Simon asked confused. What on earth could she mean by that?
"The Angel told me if you didn't stop.a bad thing would happen!" She said again, slowly facing her dad in a shy manner.
Simon suddenly got a chill down his spin as he turned around and faced the wreckage in front of his car. The fire trucks and ambulance had just arrived; the police were still questioning the witnesses. "No kidding!" Simon whispered, not really talking to anyone in particular.
He started to lose all sense of reality. 'Why was this happing to me?' Simon thought to himself, as he leaned his head on the steering wheel.
"I want Mommy!" Vincent whined.
"Me too, Vincent.me too!" Simon replied quietly, not moving his head from the steering wheel.
LATER THAT MORNING!
About 11:10 am.
Simon, Mary-Anne and Vince were on their way back to pick up Jeanette and Tom from the clinic. Simon manages to take this opportunity to get some other earns done. They even made a quick stop at the library. Simon, and his two little ones, returned some previous books and from there they decided to pick out some new ones to read later. After they were done, Simon realised the time. Quickly he took Vince and Mary back to the car and hurried back to the clinic office knowing that he is already late by ten minuets.
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MEANWHILE.
Jeanette had just come out of the pharmacy with little Tom in her arms. The pharmacy happens to be located two doors down from the clinic, conveniently in the same Strip Mall. The doctor prescribed Tom with a special medicine that will sooth his ear infection, plus to also rid him of the nasty cold. Jeanette looks at Tom and smiles, knowing that he will soon feel better thanks to the medicine.
At this point Jeanette suddenly has a strange feeling. Originally she thought that Simon would already be here and waiting for her to get out of the store. To her discouragement, he is nowhere to be seen. She turns her head; still looking around she notices a strange man standing at the other end of the parking lot. He had been following her all morning. The man wore a green hooded army style coat. His hood of the jacket covered most of his face in a shadow.
Jeanette first noticed him as she and her son came out of the clinic. Then it seemed that this stranger had been stalking her in the pharmacy. For a while he seemed to have disappeared as she was purchasing the medicine. But now he is standing at the other end of the parking lot.
Whoever this man is, she didn't like the idea that him following her. She turned and watched the traffic as it carried on in both directions. Jeanette nervously checked the time on her watch and looks over her shoulder carefully, then faced her son.
"Where is your father?" She sighed.
Tom looked back at her as if to say, 'how should I know'. He then groaned and laid his head against his mom's chest in hopes that would stop the pain in his ear.
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BACK IN THE TRAFFIC.
Needless to say, Simon is starting to get really frustrated with the busy traffic. He had finally arrived to the main street and was going to make a right hand turn. Quickly he glances in the rear view mirror and sees Mary- Anne and Vincent quietly listening to the children's tunes that he is playing in the tape player. Vincent is playing with the plastic toys that were attached to his child seat, and Mary-Anne is looking out the window on her left.
Simon smiles, "we're almost there, you guys!" He says, trying to stay cheerful.
As Simon is about to ready himself to make a turn right, a big truck pulled up on his left and stopped when the light turned red. This, of course, blocks Simon's view from on coming traffic. Slowly, he inched his way outward to see if it is safe to pull out. The traffic seems to be safe and starts to pull out more.
Just then Mary-Anne screams, "DADDY, STOP!!"
Simon slammed on the breaks. "What?"
Everything starts happening all at once. A car, that seems to have come out of nowhere, screeches as it hits the backside of another vehicle. It then flips and lands a foot in front of Simon's car.
Simon just froze. His hands are tightly gripping on the steering wheel. He sat there as he got his bearings together. Simon breath quickens as he tries to calculate on what had just happened.
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Again Jeanette turns and sees the stranger hasn't moved from his spot across the parking lot. Yet he still makes her incredibly nervous. She checks the time on her watch, again. Already Simon is twenty minuets late. She holds her son closer and let out a light growl.
"That's it, we're giving him a call." She finally says. Jeanette turns towards the clinic and carries her son back in. She asks the clerk to see if she could use the phone.
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At the accident scene, Simon finally got his bearings together and just finished talking to the 911 operators from his new cell phone he purchased recently. He quickly checks on the injured driver in the car and defiantly sees that he is in bad shape. Three other witnesses are trying to talk to the man to help him stay alive. So far, they mostly they get a muffled noise coming from his lips.
As Simon stands up straight he looks over to the curb across the street. There he notices a man dressed in a black suit standing and looking quite annoyed about something. Simon recognized him to be the same strange man from the park over a year ago when he talked with Ashley, Brian's sister. He looked disappointed, like something was suppose to happen, but didn't.
This of course made Simon even more nervous. The threats that were made to him a few years back were becoming more of a reality each day. He looked at his car and notices his kids were still inside. Vincent is fidgeting with his seat belt, trying to escape from his prison. "I want out!!" He cried.
Simon turned to the street corner and saw that the strange man is now disappeared. "Daddy! I want out!!" Vincent continues to wine.
Just then Simon cell phone rings. "Hello?" Simon answers with a shaky tone. "Jeanette? Oh God, I'm sorry. No, it's just that there was this accident. We're alright, a little shaken, but alright. What? There's a stranger following you.? Ok, hang tight. I am kind of stuck here, so I'll call Alvin and get him to pick you up. You stay in the clinic till he arrives. Love you, too."
Simon almost blacked after his talk with Jeanette. Now it seems that the Illuminati are stalking his wife and son while they are trying to kill him and his other two children.
He finally comes back to the present situation and calls home.
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"Hello?!" Chirps Alvin as he picks up the receiver. "Oh, hi Simon. What.? Ok, wait.! What are you talking about you've been in a car accident.? Oh, so technically you're stuck, because a car has flipped over right in front of you. Are you and kids alright.? Are you sure about that.? Gees, you don't need to yell.! You want me to do what.? Alright, alright, alright, don't worry! I'll pick up Jeanette. Everything will be fine.! What about you and Mary and Vince.? You sure.? Ok, I'm off then.!"
Immediately after talking to Simon, Alvin grabbed his car keys and drives off to the clinic to pick up Jeanette and Tom.
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Simon ended his call to Alvin and again views the accident. As he looked at the flipped car and the people surrounding the driver's side of it and looked at the front of his car, 'man, that car came close.' He thought.
All of a sudden, he started to realize something. 'If I hadn't stopped when I did that could have been us underneath that car!'
He turned to check on his kids; Vincent was still fussing with his seatbelt and was really starting to get upset by it. Mary-Anne quietly stares at the window. He was suddenly curious as to why Mary-Anne would suddenly tell him to stop; Simon went back into his car.
"Daddy! I want out!!" Vincent screamed.
"Not now, Vincent!" Simon replied as he tried to get Mary-Anne's attention.
"Whaaa!" Vincent whaled in protest.
"Vincent, nobody likes a whiner! Now quit it!!" Simon said in an agitated tone.
"I want Mommy!"
Simon closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He was not in the mood to hear Vincent's whining and a part of him felt like just smacking him across the face, but he held back from doing that.
"I said, NOT NOW!!" He bellowed.
Vincent continued his pout while Simon calmed himself before trying to talk to Mary.
"Mary? Mary, honey?" Simon started as he gently shook her arm, but she still kept looking at the window.
"Sweetie.Look at me!"
Finally she slowly turned her head and looked up at her father.
"Mary, why did you tell Daddy to stop?"
She started to look away again as if she was trying to avoid the question.
"Mary, honey! Answer me! Do you remember why you said that?"
"The Angel told me!" She finally answered quietly, still looking at the window.
"An Angel told you?" Simon asked confused. What on earth could she mean by that?
"The Angel told me if you didn't stop.a bad thing would happen!" She said again, slowly facing her dad in a shy manner.
Simon suddenly got a chill down his spin as he turned around and faced the wreckage in front of his car. The fire trucks and ambulance had just arrived; the police were still questioning the witnesses. "No kidding!" Simon whispered, not really talking to anyone in particular.
He started to lose all sense of reality. 'Why was this happing to me?' Simon thought to himself, as he leaned his head on the steering wheel.
"I want Mommy!" Vincent whined.
"Me too, Vincent.me too!" Simon replied quietly, not moving his head from the steering wheel.