Shaking of the bed is what woke Stormy up, it pulled, no dragged her out of the warm sea of sleep. She opened one eye and saw her dog standing on the bed stretching out and shaking again. His tags jingling and prancing around happily. She pushed herself until she was sitting up and looked at him.
" seriously dude it is like …' she looked at the clock and frowned when she looked back at him " 8: 36 am on a Sunday morning " the dog bounced around then jumped off the bed and barked at her .
"SHHHHHH. okay , okay I'll get up " She opened the closet to pull out a fluffy house coat and opened her door enough to let the dog out into the apartment and put her sneakers back on , grabbed the leash off the kitchen table and snapped it onto his collar . She opened the door and headed to the elevator when she saw an older woman coming out of the apartment across from Jessica's. She nodded at the woman and walked onto the elevator with Donnie. The woman put some space between herself and Donnie.
"He won't hurt you, he is my service dog Donnie "stormy offered. The woman eyed her and then looked back at Donnie. She still didn't say anything and still kept the space between herself and them. She hurried off the elevator and over to the security desk, Stormy smiled as she walked by and the guard nodded.
"Mrs. Knightly that is Ms. Pearson's guest she will be with us for a while and that is her service dog. I met them last night "Stormy heard the guard telling the older woman. She stepped outside into the chilly early morning air and walked down the side walk until Donnie decides where to relieve himself. She was glad he didn't take to long and that she didn't need to go ask for a bag. Once Donnie was done they headed back into the building but the guard stopped her.
"Stormy, while you are here please have your dog's vest on, Mrs. Knightly was concerned about him "the guard instructed her. She nodded and headed back into the elevator and back to Jessica's apartment. . Quietly she opened the door and UN snapped the leash from Donnie's collar. Donnie headed to a set of dog bowls on the floor that Stormy didn't notice last night, he drank out of the one bowl and sniffed at something that was in the other bowl and began to eat.
Jessica's voice cut into her thoughts and startled her. "I thought I'd make breakfast for both of you, eggs for him and waffle for you and coffee and orange juice "Jessica looked back to her laptop and clicked away.
"Thank you, I meet Mrs. Knightly, well sort of" Stormy began as she sat down at the counter and began to eat her breakfast. The waffles where light and fluffy with fresh blueberries and a lemon syrup.
"Mmmm Jessica these are really good "
" thank you and Mrs. Knightly and her husband have been living across from here long before I moved in . I'm sure she made some comment about Donnie?" Jessica asked knowing the answer.
"Not to me but to the guard downstairs and he asked for me to have Donnie's vest on at all times."
" They are nice people , just odd and she use to have Dobermans so I'm not sure why she is worried " Jessica huffed. Stormy noticed Jessica closed her laptop and looked at her.
"So yesterday, I noticed you looking at one of the pictures on the wall "
"I was going to ask you this morning about a picture on the wall. The younger man in the picture, what is his name?"
"What do you think his name is?" Jessica asked, curious to see where this was going to go.
"I have no idea who the other two are but I'm pretty sure he came to see a patient at the one rehab I was at 3 months ago. Is his name Michael Ross?" Stormy asked.
"It is actually and you said you met him at a rehab, do you know who the patient was?"
"Jessica, I don't want to get anyone in trouble "Stormy suddenly shifted in her chair nervously.
"Oh no I promise he won't be in trouble, just curious "she laughed. She remembered mike begged Harvey for two weeks off to check on a friend.
"Trevor" Stormy replied.
Jessica frowned Trevor was nothing more than a pain in the ass drug dealer that started this whole mess.
"I see "was all Jessica said before returning back to the previous conversation 'so you met Mike?"
" I did , we met when he was on his way in to visit his friend and my parents had come to visit and while he visited he would only stay with his friend a few hours and then visit me . We talked about my old job but he never told me what he did, just said he worked in an office. the week I got out , he came to see me at my house and he visited me more than his friend . Of course we had a date one night and he said he was going to keep in touch but you know how that goes "Stormy smiled sadly and finished eating.
Jessica watched Stormy clean up her plate and washed her dishes. Her phone ringing cut once more into her thoughts.
"Hello? yes you can bring everything right up thank you " Jessica hung up the phone " That was the moving guys they are bringing up your things , I have a few more items I have to take care of but how does lunch and shopping sound around 1pm ?"
"Perfect, I can call mom and put my stuff away, check my email "
"Good and if you need anything just let me know "Jessica told her as she turned her attention back towards her laptop.