Once all the tension had died away, Brit had gone for a 'talk' with Charlotte, and everything seemed back to normal, or as normal as it could be, Meat and I were sitting going through the file on the laptop.
"So they have all this information on us…" Meat said, "on all of us…?"
"Yeah," I said, "I didn't really look through all that too much before, I was just more interested in where you guys were…"
"Makes sense…" she said, "I know it sounds a bit egotistical, but what is there about me on there?"
"If you hold on I'll find out…" I said.
She nodded.
It took a bit of digging around but I found the section of the file on her. It looked a bit more complex than the others we had looked at.
"That's a bit weird…" I said, reading through the file.
"What is?" she asked.
"Well with the others, they have a rough idea of parentage… that kind of thing…" I started.
"With me they don't…" she said.
"No…" I said.
"I was adopted." She said.
"Oh…" I said.
"It's no big deal," she said, "I'm over it."
I couldn't help but laugh at that.
"So what else do they have to say about me?" she asked.
"Let's see…" I said, "oh this bit will make you laugh 'A complex character, of un-known parentage, Ms Loaf can be listed amongst the most dangerous of the Bohemians. Her fiery temper and passion for her beliefs make her very volatile'."
"Fiery temper…" she said, "never heard it described as that before… usually just get called a moody bitch."
"I have an idea…" I said.
"And what's that?" she asked.
"Well it's a bit risky, but I could wipe all these files…" I said.
"Delete them?" she asked.
"Make it like they were never there…" I replied.
"Why is it risky?" she asked.
"The programs will detect the change…" I said.
"How do you know that?" she asked.
"I wrote them…" I said. "well most of them…"
"So you'll know a way around them," she said, "without getting caught…?"
"Not really," I said, "there is no way around them… unless the files are deleted directly from my aunts main computer system, and even then that would be flagged because she never deletes anything… if you noticed Brit's file was still there even though he was listed as deceased…"
"I did notice that…" she said.
"I could delete one without it causing much of an alert…" I said, looking at her.
"So you could delete my file…?" she asked.
"Yeah…" I said, "we could make it look like you never existed."
"I always had this image in my head, you know, going down in history as being one of the people who overthrew Killer Queen, brought an end to the Gaga years…" she said, "but not existing in the first place could be pretty impressive too…"
"It's up to you." I said.
"Can we wait?" she asked, "I mean this is a pretty big decision to make…"
"Of course…" I replied.
"It'd be nice to be off the grid, completely, you know…" she said, the look in her eyes changing as she said it.
I nodded.
"Anyway…" she said, "my stomach is telling me it's about lunchtime, want me to sort you something out?"
"Sure…" I said.
She smiled and stood up, heading off in the direction of what I guessed was the kitchen.
I decided to check to see if anyone had tried to contact me since I'd been gone. It turned out they had, I had so many emails. Some from my aunt, which I knew would contain a tracker, I wasn't that stupid. I had mail from my brother Ryan. I opened it and the hologram came up above the keyboard. The rest of the Bohemians looked a bit wary.
"Checking my email…" I said with a nervous smile.
They just continued on with their business.
"Oi you idiot," the image of my brother said, "mum and dad are really freaking out about where on Planet Mall you've gone, well mum is, dad said something about you always being a free spirit…"
I had to laugh.
"Anyway, hit me back to let me know you're still alive, you don't have to say where you've gone, cause lets be honest here I don't care that much… oh can I have your music system as you won't be needing it? Love you, laters." Concluded the message.
I closed it, laughing at my brother, he did care really, but he never liked to show it.
Another message was from Aeryn, my best friend at school. I clicked open, again the hologram appeared. I thought Cliff was going to faint he looked so freaked out.
"Still checking my email…" I said.
"How do we know you're not plotting some mad plan to have us all wiped out?" he asked.
"Because I'm still sitting here," I said, "surely I'd make sure I wasn't sitting in the building I was going to blow up."
"Oh yeah," he said, "that's a smart plan…"
At that moment the hologram changed, instead of it being mail it was chat.
"Bitch where are you?" Aeryn said.
"Nice to see you too Aer…" I replied.
"Wow…" she said, looking around, "what is this place? Do they have you like captured or something? Why is that guy wearing a dress?"
"Because Cliff's dress sense is the most important thing here…" I said. "what have I missed?"
"Your aunt is like really not impressed with you going missing," she said, "she had those Police idiots of hers here this morning, asking anyone and everyone where you are…"
"And no one knows…" I said, I noticed Meat walking back over to us, "Aer I'm going to have to go…"
She saw Meat.
"Who or what is that?" Aeryn asked.
"Talk later idiot." I said.
"Miss you bitch." She said.
"Whatever slut, laters." I said.
With that she signed off.
Meat handed me some food.
"It's not great," she said, sitting back down, "but it's the best we have at the moment."
"It's great, thanks…" I replied.
"Did I interrupt something?" she asked.
"My friend Aeryn," I said, "she sent me email so I was going to check it, but took too long and she could see I was online…"
"Hence the weird head thing that popped up in the middle of your laptop?" she asked.
"Yeah…" I replied with a laugh.
"Can anyone else see you're online?" she asked.
"Not that I know of…" I replied.
At that moment another hologram popped up, one I hadn't wanted to see, one that could spell disaster for everything.