Chapter 10: Electric Avenue

"What is this all about." Toby asked Jay who was getting into his car.

"Ask questions later, just get in and I'll take you home or wherever you were going." Toby got into the car and just as they were about to pull off Spinner ran outside.

"Wait up guys." Spinner said before getting into the car. "Hey can you pick up my bike it's in the front."

"We'll get it later this can't wait." Jay said before speeding off.

"Is that Toby" Ellie said while looking at a red car speed by, Jay's car.

"Where?" Ashley said while looking around.

"Never mind. I thought I saw Toby, probably was someone else."

"Do you think the gang will like it?" Ashley asked as she picked up a necklace with sparkling ring dangling from it.

"Yeah you still haven't told me where you got that ring. If I didn't know any better I would say it was an engagement ring."

"Ellie please, Craig gave me this. I just thought it would look nice on my mom's gold necklace. It's not an engagement ring even if it looks like it. I'm sure no one would even notice that it is..."

"It's the ring isn't it" Ellie smiled. "You told me you gave it back to Craig you didn't want to wear it to get his hopes up."

"Yeah it is. Craig wanted me to keep it, he said that when I'm ready I should wear it."

"OK maybe I'm a little nosy here but aren't engagement rings meant to be on a finger."

"Yeah, but I'm not ready for that now it will look too official. This way Craig knows that my feelings haven't changed but it won't look to suspicious to everyone else."

"What will look suspicious?" Paige asked as she walked out of the The Dot.

"Nothing." Ashley replied. "Why aren't you sitting down in the booth?"

"Well the same can be said for you two guys, Huns. You've been sitting outside the Dot gossiping like two school girls. You could've came in you know how I love to hear gossip."

"Sorry Paige,Huns." Ellie said sarcastically. "We wouldn't want to steal your job as Degrassi gossip besides my life isn't that interesting to gossip about."

"Who said anything about your life. Ash here is the one that's creating a buzz. Everyone knows about your casting problems in the play, having to work with Manny. You have my sympathy she was always good at playing the other woman in real life so of course they would cast her as one in a play. Well at least she's not sore on the eyes or ears like Heather Sinclair, her voice sounds like monkeys in a zoo."

"Let's just go in." Ellie stated.

"Sure." Paige said before pulling Ashley to the side. "If you ever need help putting Manny in her place look me up, one scorned woman to another."

"That won't be necessary." Ashley replied. "Plus you and Spinner broke up way after Manny came into the picture and you don't look so heartbroken."

"That's because I'm not. I mean I hide it well. Anyway, I have a man who is ten times more mature then Spin ever was not to mention ten times as hot."

"Where is he, I would like to meet him."

"Some other time, by the way nice necklace and the engagement ring looks really good with it."

"Here we are." Jay said as he pulled up.

"It looks like a parking lot." Toby said.

"Great, Jay if you're looking for better places to park your car how about the sidewalk." Spinner joked.

"Look over there see that car." Jay pointed out a shiny BMW.

"It looks like a regular car to me." Toby said.

"It is a 2006 Seven series LI it's so new it's hasn't even hit Canada or the U.S. yet. It stays here everyday from ten o'clock am to ten at night. It never moves because it's owner work double shifts every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. That is the car I want."

"So you want us to hmm steal it." Spinner said. "Count me out."

"No, I can do that on my own, well not with this car. I don't want it I want something that's inside of it something of importance to me. If Sean was here it would be easy to get it might have been hard for him too but now with Toby the computer wizard here it's going to be a breeze."

"Huh, you want me to steal it with you."

"Naw man, I want you to help me get something out of it. Something of great importance but I want it to not look so suspicious."

"I'm not getting what you're talking about."

"See that security guard in the booth well he goes out for coffee and donuts every night between 8 o'clock to 9:30 just ten minutes early before the late shift workers comes in to get their cars. That car has an alarm system in it. I'm talking high tech it's easy for a bugler to break it or so they think for about thirty to sixty seconds at the most before the silent back system goes into effect. By that time the police including our donut security guard are informed and our in there in less then three minutes tops. It takes at least five minutes to jack a car and another minute to get it running. Even though I don't want to jack it it's going to take more then five minutes to get into the automated glove department and get well get what I want.

" Spare us the details Jay. We're not going to do it ask one of your loser friends to." Spinner replied.

"I wasn't asking you, you wouldn't be of much help anyway. But if you tell I promise you, you'll live to regret it." Jay looked at Spinner with a threatening glance.

"Don't worry I don't care if you go to jail or not. I just know Toby is smart enough not to fall for it, right Tobes."

"What kind of computer system is it" Toby asked.

"You got to be kidding me." Spinner said. "Who cares, your not going to do it."

"Toby is a grown enough to make his own decisions." Jay replied. "If you think it's too dangerous you don't have to do it I'll understand. But it will be worth it I'm talking a lot of green here more then you ever had in your whole lifetime for what's in that glove department. I wouldn't have asked you if I didn't think you could do it but I know you can."

"When and how much are we talking about?" Toby asked.

"You're crazy." Spinner said. "Don't listen to this this jerk you'll live to regret it."

"I can make my own decision's and I choose to do it" Toby exclaimed in an angry voice. "Just give me all the details."