February 14th, 2014
I woke up on Valentine's Day wondering what Paul would be up to tonight. A few seconds after that thought had flown thought my head, the phone rang… I glanced over at the caller ID and saw that it was Paul's number, so I picked it up almost immediately saying, "Uh, hello?"
"Emily? It's Paul."
"Hey Paul, what's up?"
"Nothing much, I was just calling to see what you had planned for tonight. I was going out with Madeline and we wondered if you wanted to come with us."
"I think I could make it, who's we?"
Paul said to me, "We, is Maddie, Tobias and me. Okay, that's great,"
"Daddy, is that Emily?" Paul's daughter Amber asked
"Yes sweetie it is."
"Could you tell her I said hey?"
"Okay, Emily, Amber says hey."
"I know, I heard her."
"So I'll be around to pick you up around 4:30 this afternoon, okay?"
"Sounds great."
After we hung up I immediately dialed Amanda, his old friend from Alabama. "Hello."
"Hey Amanda guess who I have a date with tonight!"
"Tom Cruise?"
"No way! Your friend Paul, his wife, and my old friend Tobias."
"What? That's great! What are you planning on wearing?"
"Well I was thinking that outfit I made from the drawings you gave me. You know the black pants with the purple tube top and the sheer shirt over it?"
"Oh that might not be a good idea. Did I ever tell you where those drawings came from?"
"No. Where?"
"Paul drew all of those back in high school."
"No way, then he's sure to love it!"
"Don't count on it, he drew them for Brittany Pruitt, he never intended for anyone but her to wear those designs. So just be careful. Okay?"
"Yeah of course. I'd never have copied the designs exactly. I changed it enough to keep him from thinking I ever saw his designs. I'm not stupid, besides its not like it's a real date, we're just friends."
"Okay, whatever you say."
February 14th, 2014
1545 hours pacific time
After my conversation with Amanda, I went back to my room to look for that outfit. I looked for
about five minutes before I found it. Then I took it and ironed and pressed it. After that I went to start getting ready for my night out.
I went to go soak in the jacuzzi for a while to relax. The combination of the jets and the strawberry scented candles always seems to relax me, and this is one time that I really need to relax. I yawned and set my watch for alarm so I would have enough time to get ready. Then I must have slipped asleep because when I looked up Sarah was sitting there looking at me. She said, "Emily shouldn't you be getting ready?"
"Uh what? Oh Fuck! Thank you I mean if I stay in here much longer I'm going to look like a prune when Paul comes to get me. That would be very bad right?"
"Uh yeah I would say so." I got a shower and proceeded to get dressed and put my makeup on. As the hour continually approached I was getting more, and more ready. Finally, about five minutes before he was supposed to be there, I was ready. I lounged around in the living room talking to Shelly, Desi, and Jennifer until Paul arrived.
The doorbell rang, but I already knew who it was. I decided to make him wait. I asked Sarah to answer the door while I headed for the bathroom to delay. I could hear her answer the door even from the bathroom. "Hi, you must be Paul." she said.
He said and I could hear him smiling, "Yes, that's right and who might you be?"
"I'm Sarah, one of Emily's friends."
"Speaking of whom is she ready? I have a date with her tonight, well kind of a date."
"No she's not ready yet. Feel free to come in, she's nearly ready it'll just be a few minutes, or you could just take me out instead of her."
"Umm. I suppose I should come in and wait, but I'm sorry I'm taking Emily out."
I smiled and opened the bathroom door. As I stepped into the hallway I saw him turn to see if it was me. I walked into the room and he stood up holding a single red rose. "Is that for me? Or are you trying to hit on my friends?" I said jokingly.
Then he handed me the rose asking, "Are you ready now?"
"Yes, I think I am. Let's go. Are we taking your car?"
"Not exactly but yeah. Don't ask." As we left the house I understood what he meant. In front of my house sat a big black limousine.
Then we went to dinner at Brick's. I had never eaten there, because I could never get a reservation. Then we went to a fashion show in Beverly Hills, just me, Paul, and his wife Madeline. At the show his gaze always fixed on one model in particular, a tall blonde who had the most interesting blue-gray eyes I've ever seen, if they had been on a guy they would have looked amazing. She was the only one who wore the designs with full backs, every time he looked at that model his wife would squeeze his hand that she was holding. All the other models wore the plunging backs and backless designs. In the back of my mind I wondered who this woman was.
After the show my questions were answered. When the show ended, I looked at Paul and he told me that we were staying for the post-release party. Then we walked up to the blonde model and hugged her. He glanced at me and asked her to come meet me. "Brittany this is Emily, Emily this is my old friend Brittany."
"Hi, nice to meet you." I said smiling.
"Likewise, that is an amazing outfit you have on, who made it?"
"Well I made it but I kinda 'borrowed' the design" I said smiling.
"Oh, I see." then she leaned over and whispered, "is that one of Paul's old designs?" I smiled,
"Actually it is I thought you might recognize it. Since it's technically one of yours." I said loud enough for Paul to hear.
"Well you did a very good job. That isn't exactly one of my favorites but it is one that I wear."
* * *
Los Angeles
September 4, 2015
Sarah, Patrick, Shelly, Jennifer, Desiree, and I left the airport parking lot in rented vehicles. Jennifer, Desiree, and I in a white Pontiac Aztec, and Sarah, Patrick, and Shelly in a black Pontiac Grand Am.
After a few blocks, I noticed a black Chevrolet Suburban following us. I immediately called Sarah's cell phone and gave her the SITREP. "Sarah, listen to me very carefully, we have agency security tailing us. I don't know why or how, but we have to loose them. We can't let them know about my contacts here," I said calmly.
"Okay Emily, tell me what to do," Sarah said.
"See that big tower? Head there, there's a parking deck on the opposite side of it, meet me there in fifteen minutes," I said in my normal calm voice.
"Okay Em, see you there," Sarah said as we hung up. Then she thought to me
Sarah turned left and the suburban continued following Emily's vehicle. "Great!" I said aloud. I pulled out my two Glocks and handed them to Desiree in the seat next to me. Then I said to Jennifer, "Get my duffel, the big black one, get the MP5, preferably the SL model if you can tell which that is,"
"Got it Em," Jennifer said as she handed me the weapon.
"Jenn, you'd better grab the other MP5 out of there, we're all gonna need to be armed, never know what they'll throw at us," I said to her.
"I'm on it Emily," she answered.
We continued on our course and headed for the rendezvous with Sarah, Shelly, and Patrick. When we arrived at the parking deck, I let Jennifer out at the entry to guard against any enemy ingress through that entrance.
After we found Sarah and her crew, we all armed ourselves so that we'd have a shot at not getting captured. We all got ready as we saw the lights coming up the ramp we were ready. The cars had come in at the opposite entrance from where we had left Jennifer. That meant that we could escape out that entrance if we had to. The first car came into view and stopped. We were all curious to find out what they were gonna throw at us next. The people who stepped out of the cars were only around sixteen or seventeen, that made them Gen8 units. We had never encountered any Gen8's before, and we didn't know what they were capable of. All we knew for sure was that we needed to avoid a gunfight in here at all cost.
I gave the others the signal to fall back to the cars, and retreat…
I woke up on Valentine's Day wondering what Paul would be up to tonight. A few seconds after that thought had flown thought my head, the phone rang… I glanced over at the caller ID and saw that it was Paul's number, so I picked it up almost immediately saying, "Uh, hello?"
"Emily? It's Paul."
"Hey Paul, what's up?"
"Nothing much, I was just calling to see what you had planned for tonight. I was going out with Madeline and we wondered if you wanted to come with us."
"I think I could make it, who's we?"
Paul said to me, "We, is Maddie, Tobias and me. Okay, that's great,"
"Daddy, is that Emily?" Paul's daughter Amber asked
"Yes sweetie it is."
"Could you tell her I said hey?"
"Okay, Emily, Amber says hey."
"I know, I heard her."
"So I'll be around to pick you up around 4:30 this afternoon, okay?"
"Sounds great."
After we hung up I immediately dialed Amanda, his old friend from Alabama. "Hello."
"Hey Amanda guess who I have a date with tonight!"
"Tom Cruise?"
"No way! Your friend Paul, his wife, and my old friend Tobias."
"What? That's great! What are you planning on wearing?"
"Well I was thinking that outfit I made from the drawings you gave me. You know the black pants with the purple tube top and the sheer shirt over it?"
"Oh that might not be a good idea. Did I ever tell you where those drawings came from?"
"No. Where?"
"Paul drew all of those back in high school."
"No way, then he's sure to love it!"
"Don't count on it, he drew them for Brittany Pruitt, he never intended for anyone but her to wear those designs. So just be careful. Okay?"
"Yeah of course. I'd never have copied the designs exactly. I changed it enough to keep him from thinking I ever saw his designs. I'm not stupid, besides its not like it's a real date, we're just friends."
"Okay, whatever you say."
February 14th, 2014
1545 hours pacific time
After my conversation with Amanda, I went back to my room to look for that outfit. I looked for
about five minutes before I found it. Then I took it and ironed and pressed it. After that I went to start getting ready for my night out.
I went to go soak in the jacuzzi for a while to relax. The combination of the jets and the strawberry scented candles always seems to relax me, and this is one time that I really need to relax. I yawned and set my watch for alarm so I would have enough time to get ready. Then I must have slipped asleep because when I looked up Sarah was sitting there looking at me. She said, "Emily shouldn't you be getting ready?"
"Uh what? Oh Fuck! Thank you I mean if I stay in here much longer I'm going to look like a prune when Paul comes to get me. That would be very bad right?"
"Uh yeah I would say so." I got a shower and proceeded to get dressed and put my makeup on. As the hour continually approached I was getting more, and more ready. Finally, about five minutes before he was supposed to be there, I was ready. I lounged around in the living room talking to Shelly, Desi, and Jennifer until Paul arrived.
The doorbell rang, but I already knew who it was. I decided to make him wait. I asked Sarah to answer the door while I headed for the bathroom to delay. I could hear her answer the door even from the bathroom. "Hi, you must be Paul." she said.
He said and I could hear him smiling, "Yes, that's right and who might you be?"
"I'm Sarah, one of Emily's friends."
"Speaking of whom is she ready? I have a date with her tonight, well kind of a date."
"No she's not ready yet. Feel free to come in, she's nearly ready it'll just be a few minutes, or you could just take me out instead of her."
"Umm. I suppose I should come in and wait, but I'm sorry I'm taking Emily out."
I smiled and opened the bathroom door. As I stepped into the hallway I saw him turn to see if it was me. I walked into the room and he stood up holding a single red rose. "Is that for me? Or are you trying to hit on my friends?" I said jokingly.
Then he handed me the rose asking, "Are you ready now?"
"Yes, I think I am. Let's go. Are we taking your car?"
"Not exactly but yeah. Don't ask." As we left the house I understood what he meant. In front of my house sat a big black limousine.
Then we went to dinner at Brick's. I had never eaten there, because I could never get a reservation. Then we went to a fashion show in Beverly Hills, just me, Paul, and his wife Madeline. At the show his gaze always fixed on one model in particular, a tall blonde who had the most interesting blue-gray eyes I've ever seen, if they had been on a guy they would have looked amazing. She was the only one who wore the designs with full backs, every time he looked at that model his wife would squeeze his hand that she was holding. All the other models wore the plunging backs and backless designs. In the back of my mind I wondered who this woman was.
After the show my questions were answered. When the show ended, I looked at Paul and he told me that we were staying for the post-release party. Then we walked up to the blonde model and hugged her. He glanced at me and asked her to come meet me. "Brittany this is Emily, Emily this is my old friend Brittany."
"Hi, nice to meet you." I said smiling.
"Likewise, that is an amazing outfit you have on, who made it?"
"Well I made it but I kinda 'borrowed' the design" I said smiling.
"Oh, I see." then she leaned over and whispered, "is that one of Paul's old designs?" I smiled,
"Actually it is I thought you might recognize it. Since it's technically one of yours." I said loud enough for Paul to hear.
"Well you did a very good job. That isn't exactly one of my favorites but it is one that I wear."
* * *
Los Angeles
September 4, 2015
Sarah, Patrick, Shelly, Jennifer, Desiree, and I left the airport parking lot in rented vehicles. Jennifer, Desiree, and I in a white Pontiac Aztec, and Sarah, Patrick, and Shelly in a black Pontiac Grand Am.
After a few blocks, I noticed a black Chevrolet Suburban following us. I immediately called Sarah's cell phone and gave her the SITREP. "Sarah, listen to me very carefully, we have agency security tailing us. I don't know why or how, but we have to loose them. We can't let them know about my contacts here," I said calmly.
"Okay Emily, tell me what to do," Sarah said.
"See that big tower? Head there, there's a parking deck on the opposite side of it, meet me there in fifteen minutes," I said in my normal calm voice.
"Okay Em, see you there," Sarah said as we hung up. Then she thought to me
Sarah turned left and the suburban continued following Emily's vehicle. "Great!" I said aloud. I pulled out my two Glocks and handed them to Desiree in the seat next to me. Then I said to Jennifer, "Get my duffel, the big black one, get the MP5, preferably the SL model if you can tell which that is,"
"Got it Em," Jennifer said as she handed me the weapon.
"Jenn, you'd better grab the other MP5 out of there, we're all gonna need to be armed, never know what they'll throw at us," I said to her.
"I'm on it Emily," she answered.
We continued on our course and headed for the rendezvous with Sarah, Shelly, and Patrick. When we arrived at the parking deck, I let Jennifer out at the entry to guard against any enemy ingress through that entrance.
After we found Sarah and her crew, we all armed ourselves so that we'd have a shot at not getting captured. We all got ready as we saw the lights coming up the ramp we were ready. The cars had come in at the opposite entrance from where we had left Jennifer. That meant that we could escape out that entrance if we had to. The first car came into view and stopped. We were all curious to find out what they were gonna throw at us next. The people who stepped out of the cars were only around sixteen or seventeen, that made them Gen8 units. We had never encountered any Gen8's before, and we didn't know what they were capable of. All we knew for sure was that we needed to avoid a gunfight in here at all cost.
I gave the others the signal to fall back to the cars, and retreat…