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My Lily Chapter 3

Last time: As I declared my love for her, a muffled voice came through the door, "Hey Reid, man, where'd you get to?" It was Morgan. I must have lost track of time while I was talking to Lily! I don't know how I'm going to get out of this one!

Now:

I need to get out of this closet and think of an excuse to tell Morgan before he finds me here and I have to explain who I was talking to on the phone and why I had to do it hidden in the closet. But first I had to get off the phone. So as much I hated it do it I have to tell Lily bye. "Hey, Lil, I really don't want to go, but I have been gone from work for some time now and I can hear them looking for me. Call me the next chance you get and we will talk though the details a little more. I love you, and remember I still have three weeks to find the guy! We need to remember that your safety is always the first priority!"

"You are too rational for your own good, you know. I love you, and stay safe!" she sighed.

"Love you too." I quickly said as I hung up. I slowly opened the door, looking around to make sure that no one sees me sneaking out of the closet. After making sure that the cost was clear I quickly got out of the closet and closed the door. I calmly made my way down the hall way so I did not raise any suspicion.

"Hey! Kid, what were you doing? You were gone for almost 40 minutes and when I went to the break room to see what was up, and all I found was your coffee just sitting on the counter getting cold. Did something happen? You ok, man?" I can't believe that I forgot to think of an excuse! What am I going to tell him?

In an attempt to give myself more time to think of a believable excuse, I tried to distract him. "Why would you think something happened? What? You can put off having to do your paper work and I can't?"

He snorted, "Now I know something's up! You don't avoid paperwork, you don't leave work for 40 minutes unannounced on a whim, and you don't leave your coffee to go cold! Plus we both know you just said that to avoid answering my questions. So now tell me what's wrong. You know I only want to help you. Please, kid, you know you can trust me!" With every word he said the knife that suddenly found its way back to my stomach was twisted deeper and deeper. I wanted so much to just tell him everything right here, right now, to not have to lie anymore, but I know I can't. However, I had to tell him something to get him off my back. So I said the first thing I could think of, "I was in the bathroom." I was in the bathroom! Where did that come from! Why do the stupidest things always come out of my mouth without me meaning them too? Could I have thought of a lamer excuse! Actually, I take that back, given some time I'm sure that I could.

"The bathroom… really Spencer, you expect me to believe that. Why are you lying to me? What are you trying to cover up?"

"I'm not lying to you! I really was in the bathroom!" please believe me, please believe me!

"You were in the bathroom? For the whole 40 minutes you were gone?" I saw what he meant, 40 minutes is a bit excessive to have spent the whole time in the bathroom.

"Well, no of course I did not spend the whole 40 minutes in the bathroom. There was the time I spent walking to and back, and the time washing my hands, plus as you could see I went to the break room to get coffee first. And as you said I was not really gone the whole 40 minutes." There that should help account for some of the time I was gone.

"If you were really in the bathroom, why did you get your coffee first huh? Why not go to the bathroom first, that way your coffee would not have been left to get cold?" he was baiting me. He knows that I was lying; I need to find a way to make him believe me. As embarrassing as my next statement is going to be, this is probably the only thing that might make him believe me enough to at the very least drop the subject.

"Because, Morgan, if you must know, I did not have enough warning to do that! It was kind of an all of the sudden thing. You know bowl movements are a sign of a healthy colon! And the average human produces about one ounce of waste for each twelve pounds of body weight. Meaning that the average man produces about 360 pounds of waste each year, and the average female produces…"

I was cut off midsentence by Morgan, "Alright Kid! You know way too much about that kind of stuff to be healthy, and I really don't want to hear any more!"

"Well you asked! I tried to be subtle about it. I told you I was telling the truth, you just did not want to believe me!"

"Ok, ok I believe you! I hope you're feeling better now… maybe you should take a tums or something." Oh thank goodness! He believed me, or he was grossed out enough to not want to press the issue anymore. Either way I'm off the hook!

"That's a good idea, I'll go do that right now!" as I walked away I breathed a sigh of relief. That was much too close! Now in addition to having to spend the next 3 weeks working my hardest to prove that the un-sub after Lily is still out there and looking for her, I also have to be extra careful to keep Morgan and the rest of the team from suspecting anything.

Tell me what you think or if you have any ideas as to where Spencer's and Lily's story could lead them.