Once I get home Olaf jumps at me, barking happily seeing me. Meg lays on my couch, drinking a glass of orange juice and with a book in her other hand.
"Hi, how was the meeting?" She makes room for me to sit next to her, handling a glass which I refused.
"Well, I have to wait to know if the project is approved or not. I think Hans will vote against it. But honestly? Maybe I have a chance, the board seemed interested. How was Olaf?"
"Good, he was a good boy. I hope you don't mind, I ordered a pizza after you told me the meeting was over. I guess you didn't have dinner."
"Oh, thanks Meg. I'm too exhausted to cook anything. You'll eat with me, then?"
The pizza arrives in time, and we eat. I tell her about what happened with the personal assistant of Hans. I ask if she knows her name which is Ariel, she doesn't speak a lot, so Meg doesn't know too much, only that she's very close to Hans.
That girl seems to me a bit odd. I don't know, I don't like her, not physically, she has a great body, but she doesn't seem okay to me. It's strange, I can't tell.
After that Meg go home, I switch on my computer and check the e-mails. Only spam today. I launch Skype and check if Anna is online. After some seconds she answers at the video call.
"Ehy Elsa, what's up?" She greets me with a smile.
"Hi, I wanted to let you know that after our call of yesterday I didn't received any message."
"Oh, this is good! I was hoping that we could talk in a way or in another.."
"Something happened? Everything is okay?"
"Yes, yes, everything is okay, don't worry. I.. I didn't want to not be able to talk to you, that's all. It's difficult at work not be allowed to stay with you.."
"You know this is only-"
"For our sake. I know. You don't need to remind me that. Have Your friends at the station told you something? Is there a turning point or still nothing?"
"I don't know. Tomorrow I'll go to the station and see." There's a pause. I could end the call right now, but I want to know if everything is okay, especially with Hans. "Tell me, how are things going on? How are you?"
"Fine." She sighs looking at some point in her room.
"Anna, has something happened? You don't seem fine.. today at the meeting-"
"Everything is okay, I'm a bit stress that' all. No need to worry." She tries to smile. "Today you did well. I think the board like your idea."
"I hope so, but I think Hans and his PA, didn't like it. Do you know something about his assistant? It's like she doesn't exist."
"Yeah, Ariel, her name, works in our floor. Have you never noticed her before? Aside from the meeting I mean."
"I don't think so, she's so quiet. She was weird today.."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know.. she kept looking at me in a strange way, I can't tell how honestly. And when she stepped on my way she seemed, I don't know, pissed off? I think she doesn't like me. Just like Hans."
"Oh well, don't think about it. Maybe she was just tired from the meeting."
After some minutes we say good night and go to bed. Maybe Anna is right, Ariel was just tired and wanted to go home. Nobody likes to stay for 3 hours in a meeting. Hell, nobody likes meetings at all! I was tired too.
The morning is going well, I stay at my computer, waiting for any news from the board, nothing yet. Honestly I don't know how much I have to wait until I hear something from them. I ask Anna for an authorization of about an hour, in order to go to the station because Phil sent me a message.
As soon as I arrive Phil brings me to a room where there are other's officers.
"Elsa, thanks for being here so quickly."
"No problem, have you found anything?"
"We found something. It was a prepaid mobile phone. We don't know who the user was. We'll trace your phone, if the unknown send you another message, we'll know and maybe we'll be able to trace him/her." He takes my phone and handles it to an officer. "How are you, Elsa?"
"Fine, a bit under pressure."
"Everything will be fine. Remember you can count on me and my squad. We'll find this bastard and we'll arrest him/her."
"Thanks Phil.. I'd like to ask if you can keep an eye on Anna, just in case, I don't want anything happens to her." He smiles at me. I can see in his eyes his comprehension about my concern.
"Don't worry Elsa. We'll keep our eyes open. You're Meg and Herk's best friend, so that makes you part of the family."
The same officer who took my phone, returns it to me smiling. I say bye to Phil and the others and drive back to work. Once I'm back, Meg is at my desk, waiting for me with a sandwich in her hands.
"Here. Your lunch." She asks how it went at the station. I tell her everything's going to be okay. I didn't want to let her know too much, especially here at work. We don't know who and where this unknown is.
I have my phone in my hand. So, now I have a bug on my phone? If you don't know about it, you won't be able to notice that my phone is under control. That's good. My eyes go up, looking at Hans who is walking to Anna's office. He's whispering something to his PA, who is behind him. With a grimace, Ariel looks at me and then she returns her attention to Hans.
Author's Note: Hello everyone! I hope you'll like this chapter. I have a lot of ideas about the next chapter. Hopefully there aren't too much mistakes, especially regarding the grammar, I'm studying a lot in these days for an exam, so I wish I managed to make it understandable. Let me know what you think about it and thanks for you support!
Have a nice day,
Christy
