Tempting Treats

by Canadaindy

Javier's new neighbor's bring gingerbread cookies to both Steve and Connie Murphy, and of course Javier Pena. Except Javier's overprotective clouds his true feelings for her. Part of "False Prophets" story that is soon to be release

p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"Emily searched through her purse for her keys, taking out the crumpled pieces of paper and the candy wrappers, tossing them both in the trashcan./spanspan style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"She finally found her keys that were tucked inside her CIA badge./spanspan style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"She zipped up her purse, and put it back on the small table, then grabbed the box filled with gingerbread cookies and a card./spanspan style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She double checked the wire underneath her green plaid shirt before style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe headed upstairs toward Steve and Connie's apartment. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She spotted her partner, Shiro disguised as one of the homeless across the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Don't worry, I've already saved you some," she said into her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She knocked on the apartment door 4 times then patiently style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanConnie opened the door, smiling when she saw her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Emily," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hi, I won't stay long, I'm just here to drop these off," she said, holding out the box and a white square envelope on top of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Thank you, come in. I'll make some coffee," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily was about to object, both Steve and Javier kept her out of the Nacros' style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe wasn't going to get any good intel, but honestly it was the best offer that she had all style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe did see her as a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Alright, thank you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"span style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" /span./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily was still laughing when she heard the door style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Honey," Steve called style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hey Sweetie," Emily style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe peered his head out from the door, seeing style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily gave him a smile while Connie burst into style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hello," he said, walked through the door with Javier behind him with folders tucked under his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Emily came here to drop off some Christmas cookies and this lovely card," Connie explained as she walked up to her husband, kissing him style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Well, I hope you two save some for us," he style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily picked up the coffee cups and headed toward the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She walked past Javier, giving him a smile, she glanced down at the files seeing "Escobar" and "The Misfits," scribbled on the tabs of the folders. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Well back home, right now at my place at Lafayette there would be a ton of baking and the smell of it," she said, ending with a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe was starting to get homesick, remembering style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She cleared her throat, "Anyway, I gave our neighbor Mrs. Flores some and yours," she explained, pointing to Javier, "Are at my place."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I convinced Javier to stay for dinner," Steve style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Perfect, I was just going to ask Emily as well," Connie style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily raised her eyebrows up at her, doubting style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She wasn't blind, Javier Pena was very handsome with his slick moustache and those tight style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe knew that it would be perfect time to join them and possibly eavesdrop on their conversation on their style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut it did not make her feel any style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She smiled, "Ok, but I cannot stay style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI want to finish the letter to my dad so I can mail it tomorrow."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Wonderful," Connie style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"As Emily and Connie were in the kitchen starting dinner, Javier shot a look at Steve as he sat down in the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe was starting to feel like this was a set style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""We didn't plan this," Steve defensibly said as he held his hands up in front of himself, "I didn't know that she was going to come over and bring style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWhiskey?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Javier nodded his head, obviously he couldn't talk about the case right style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe was planning to head over to the brothel afterward to get rid of this tension at the back of his shoulders. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Steve handed him his drink, "Just relax, take a break," he calmly style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe took a sip and leaned style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanFrom his chair, he can see straight into the kitchen watching the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily Wolfe was his new next-door neighbor, a graphic artist who worked in an advertising agency here in Bogota, style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe wasn't blind or style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"When he first saw her taking a break outside of her apartment on the day that she moved in, he was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily was beautiful and he was interested in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanNot only she was talented, but she also spoke several languages, had a wonderful laugh, a great singing voice and a beautiful style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSo why was this nice girl from Louisiana working here instead of Paris, London, or some other artsy style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He helped her from time to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe wanted to get to know her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe did take her out to dinner once, but it ended in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanOne man tried to pick her up which caused her to have a panic style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanIt was later when he learned that she survived a brutal attack that killed her best friend a couple of years style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He believed that Emily needed a friend more than a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut he has fantasized about her a few style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Since then, he has become more protective of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe even stopped bringing the prostitutes back to his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Ask her out," he heard Steve whispering beside style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe saw Steve now sitting on the couch, leaning forward, giving him a stupid smirk on his face. He looked at his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""After what happened the last time?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Or it is because of what happened to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe is not a prostitute; she and her company doesn't deal with Escobar."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Doesn't deal with Escobar," Emily overheard style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanem'Only if you knew the truth,' /emshe style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span'emI'm with the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI was sent here undercover to stop Escobar and for some reason, my big boss wants to see you in jail.'/emspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Emily," Connie interrupted her train of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""What," she said looking at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I think that carrot has been peeled enough."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Huh," she asked, looking down seeing that poor carrot was nearly peeled down to its style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Oh, sorry."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Something or someone on your mind," she teased, indicating Javier who was busy talking to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily turned her back toward the men, leaning against the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I know that you and Steve are trying to set us style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut I'm afraid that he is not interested in me in that way."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""How can you be so sure?span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanMaybe you are getting his signals wrong," Connie asked, turning her back toward the men as style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""The way I freaked out on our style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI get it, I honestly didn't expect to have a panic attack. But now…" she said, her voice trailing off, looking style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""But now what, honey?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily drew in a deep breath, gathering the strength of what she had to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""The best way I can described it, is that he treats me like I'm made out of glass," she quietly style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Just then her pager went off, causing them both to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Shit," Emily cursed, looking down at her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe recognized the number belonging to her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I'm sorry, but I must take style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanMay I use your phone?" Connie pointed to the phone that was on the kitchen counter. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She glanced at the men who had stopped talking and now watching style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She held up her pager, "Sorry, my boss has wonderful timing," she sarcastically style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe picked up the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe didn't hear a dial tone right away, just silence then a click and dial style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe knew that his phone was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe dialed the number, and patiently style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe picked up a pen and a pad of paper next to it and started doodling on it in the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Sam Holmes," her boss style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Yow, boss," she responded using her codes saying that she wasn't alone, and the phone was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Yow," he questioned, keeping up the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""You know if I call you snuggle bunny, your wife will have a fit. What's up?" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Where are you, I've tried to reach you at home."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I'm at my neighbors."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe heard a sigh from style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"You keep telling me to go out more."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I know, but I need that Gomez's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI'm hoping you know of where it is."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Yeah, I took it home to work on it last style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI put it in my bag and brought it to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAnd…Oh…" she said, realizing her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""And never took it out of your bag," her boss finished her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Bingo," she said, pinching her nose style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Do you need it right now?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Yes."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""On my way, bye," she said, hanging up the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThere was no Gomez's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanIt was their secret code telling her that something was up, and she needed to get style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe was partly relieved that she had to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSteve and Javier weren't going to talk about their work while she was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I'm sorry, but I have to go," she apologized as she made her way to the door. "My boss wants that file right style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanJavier, how about I bring the cookies to you in the morning when I leave for work tomorrow?span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThank you for the coffee," she said to Connie who was already standing beside style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAfter Emily bid her goodbye, Connie locked the door./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily nearly forgot to go back to her apartment for the "file" when she realized what she was wearing, ripped jeans, her green plaid shirt and black converse style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanNot quite office style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"As she entered her apartment, "Shiro, meet me at the usual spot in 5 minutes," she said into her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She quickly changed to black slacks, boots, and a white blouse with a black vest. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Her partner was waiting at the end of the street, a few blocks away from her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe was carrying a bulky backpack that held his disguise. She pulled over, he climbed in, tossing in his bag in the back style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"After making sure that she wasn't being followed, she parked her car in an underground parking lot in the business area of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"A black van was parked in the distance where she flashed her car lights style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe van flashed their lights twice before an older man dressed in black jumped out from the driver's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe back door slide open, span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"and /span/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"2 women jumped style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHer teammate Maggie was wearing the same outfit as the older man, carrying a long black sleeve style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily didn't recognize the other woman, but she was the same height, built, and had the same hair color as style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanFortunately, she wore black slacks and similar boots to Emily's. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe almost looked like her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She already knew that this woman was a rookie CIA agent who was going to pretend to be her, headed to the office while Emily was out. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Shiro and Maggie stood in front of her, with their backs turned toward her, shielding style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily removed her blouse and vest, handing it over to Shiro while Maggie threw the black shirt over her shoulder where Emily slipped it style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShiro handed Emily's top to the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Please do not forget the file and there is an old baseball cap in the glove department in case you need style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAnd thank you."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily slipped on her top and moved away from her 'wall'.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe unknown woman nodded at her then headed toward her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily headed toward the van, "What's up," she asked her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Trouble, gear up."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"span style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 3;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" /span./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"It was after dinner that Connie put the dirty dishes in the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWhen she came back, she smacks Javier on the back of his head as she sat style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Coffee, baby," she offered her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Ow, what the hell Connie," Javier protested, rubbing the back of his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""That is for treating Emily like glass," Javier was now completely style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""What?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""You two were good friends, close, and then you found out about the attack and started to treat her like she was made out of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWhy?span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBecause you are afraid that she is going to have another meltdown?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanJavier didn't answer style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanConnie calmed down to pour him some style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""There are going to be things that will trigger a panic attack and there is nothing that you can do about it but be there for style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe is a strong style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe is not going to break."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanJavier knew that she was right and so was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut he was never going to admit that to his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"span style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" /span./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Dead bodies of Escobar's men were strewn across the ground where Emily and Sam now dressed in full gear with black masks, CIA badges stitched on their left arm over their color style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily was red while Sam was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily stripped the last wire before attaching it to the detonator, "So what kind of cookies did you make," he asked as he laid a piece of duct tape to the C4 to the wall of the supposed abandoned style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Gingerbread, family's recipe."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Damn, ready?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She nodded, they stepped over the dead bodies and jogged away from the building toward the van that was parked down the road, out of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Did you have dinner, yet?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""What, no, kind of got called away."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBoth Maggie and Shiro were already waiting by the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Status," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""All ready, everything bitchin," Maggie style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBoth Sam and Emily did a double take at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Bitchin," Sam repeated, shaking his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Kids."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Shiro climbed into the driver's seat, while Emily sat on the front passenger style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBoth Sam and Maggie stood outside with binoculars in their style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Sam, I think it is your turn," Emily style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShiro started the van, handed Sam the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWhile Shiro set up the PA system, Emily dialed a familiar style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"It picked up on the second ring, "Horacio Carrillo," he style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Good evening, I'm hoping that I'm not interrupting style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut one of Escobar's drug factories is going to go up in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI thought that maybe you and your friends would like to come style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanOh, please hold."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe handed the phone to Shiro who held it up to Sam who talked into the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Atención, gente que está en el almacén. Sabemos que estás haciendo cocaína. Acabamos de colocar unas cuantas bombas alrededor del edificio. Te estamos dando la oportunidad de escapar. Te vamos a hacer daño o a arrestarte. Solo queremos destruir el style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongAttention, people who are in the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWe know that you are making style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWe just placed a few bombs around the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWe are giving you a chance to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWe are not going to harm or arrest style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWe just want to destroy the building/strong.)"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She put the phone to her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"You got that?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Who are you," Horacio style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""The Misfits, the real style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanNot the ones who are claiming to be us," she answered then relaying the address before hanging style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She could see more of the guards coming up, discovering the dead style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEven though she couldn't hear what they were saying, but from the way they were shouting at each other, raising their guns up, looking around, they were style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Now," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily pressed one of the black buttons and one of the cars that were parked on the lot close to the warehouse blew style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe guards turned around and started firing at the burning style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Escobar's men at their finest," Maggie style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"More people burst out of the building, obviously the workers from their masks that they were still style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThey were all screaming and panicking, causing mass confusion amongst the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThey stopped firing, for fear of hitting the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Both Sam and Maggie climbed in, knowing that their hiding spot was going to be discovered style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"One of the guards then spotted them, and shouted excitedly to the others, running up at them, shooting style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Shiro switched gears and pressed the gas pedal hard as he backed up, turning around style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanNearly causing Sam and Maggie to fall out of their style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily dropped the button on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe turned her head back to them, checking on style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Press the button," Sam ordered as he straightened himself up on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Just then, the back window exploded with style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Get down," he style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily ducked down in her seat and started reaching for the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe button was barely within her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Shit," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Both Maggie and Sam returned fired style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Anytime Emily."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I'm trying, but I can't reach it."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShiro took a hard turn, causing the button to slide further away from style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""God damnit, Shiro take a hard right, the button should slide back to me."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Kind of hard when they are chasing us," Maggie said as she fired a few shots style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""But we are getting out of range," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShiro spun the van around, causing the button to slide toward her. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Got it."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily pressed the button, expecting to hear an style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut all she heard was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Fuck, we are out of range," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShiro pressed the gas pedal and droved forward, straight toward style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Oh, bloody hell," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily rolled down her window and pulled out her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe leaned out of the window and started firing at the old pick-up truck that was chasing style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThere were 2 men standing in the bed, firing their guns at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe hit one of the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Switch seats," Maggie style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe did that knowing that Maggie was a better style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe squeezed past her, to the back, laying style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""God damnit, where is Horatio," Maggie asked as she fired style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily held out her gun for Maggie, knowing that she was going to run out of bullets style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Meanwhile Sam dug out a long green rectangle case from the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I knew that this would come in handy," he exclaimed opening the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily kept pushing the button, waiting, but nothing. emspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"'Shit how far away are we,' /span/emspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"she thought to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShiro drove forward, causing the truck now to drive in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Shiro, make a turn with me facing them," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily saw that Sam was now loading a shoulder-fired missile launcher. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Oh shit," both she and Maggie style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily held on to her seat and the button tightly as Shiro spun the van around style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She quickly climbed out of her seat toward the van door, taking her gun with style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe opened the door and stood behind Sam with her gun pointed at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The people in the truck saw this and started banging on the roof, shouting orders at the driver who started driving backwards even style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"That didn't matter to Sam who pressed the trigger and the missile ejected from the launching tube, heading straight toward style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily slammed the door shut, "Get down," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The missile collided with the speeding truck, causing a big style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanParts of the truck and even body parts landed on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily's ears were ringing from the firing and the explosion./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Go, style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEmily, press the damn button," Emily heard Sam yelling and making a pushing motion with his finger through the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe found the button on her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe sat back down in her seat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Shiro eventually drove past the burning van, making his way style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe loud noises affected style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBroken glass was scattered about on the floor, but everyone was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe absently minded pressed the button, believing that they were not close enough style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Except a loud boom and a black mushroom cloud emerged up the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe van skidded to a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Wow," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe leaned back in her seat, closing her eyes and blowing out a sigh of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe ringing was starting to go style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe made a mental note to wear earplugs the next time that Sam used the missile launcher again./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""So how about some tacos," Sam style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe opened one eye and turned her head toward style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Ah, why not," she replied shrugging her shoulders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"span style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" /span./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Javier was in one of the bedrooms at a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe rolled Angel, the new girl at the brothel over on her back and thrusted style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe hangs on to him tightly, digging her red manicure nails into his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"But his mind wandered back to Emily, her perfume, her touch, her smile and how she looked at him with her blue eyes kept flashing inside of his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Emily," he cried out as he climaxes then collapsing on top of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe rolled off of her, giving her a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He laid on his back, catching his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe rubbed his face with his hand, realizing that he had just called out Emily's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Shit," he style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe sat up, swallowing the last of the whiskey in his glass that sat on the nightstand beside the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"During that time, Angel climbed out of the bed, picking up her robe that laid on a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe returned with the whiskey bottle, offering it to Javier./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He held out his glass as she refilled style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe sat down on the edge of the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"¿Tienes otro? strong(/strong/spanstrongspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Do you have another one,)" /span/strongspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"she asked when he pulled out a cigarette from his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe pulled out a second one, sticking it in his mouth, lighting style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe offered it to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He inhaled the nicotine in as he swung his legs style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe reached for his jeans, that were on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe dug out his wallet, dropping his jeans back on the floor style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe pulled out a bill and offered it to style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Ya me pagaste azúcar, /spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongYou already paid me that, Sugar/strong)" she said looking at the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Eso es por decir el nombre de una chica diferente, tó style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongThat is for calling out a different girl's name, take it./strong)"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe laid back down, tucking a pillow behind style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Eso está bien. Me han llamado por otros nombres antes. Pero, /spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongThat is style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI have been called by other names style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut/strong,)" then she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Adelante, no me enojaré.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongGo ahead, I won't get mad/strong.)"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Pero esta es la segunda vez que me llamas por este style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongBut this is the second time, you called me by this name/strong.)"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"'emFuck/em,' he style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FDFDFD;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""/spanspan lang="ES" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: ES;"Ella es una style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/spanspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"(strongShe is a friend/strong.)"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe raised her eyebrows up at him giving him a little style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe started to realize that Steve, Connie, and even Angel was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe was really starting to like Emily./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"span style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" style="mso-tab-count: 2;" /span./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The next day after work, Emily stood in front of the bathroom style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanWith the adrenaline rush from last night, she didn't know that she was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe doesn't even remember how she got a cut on her lower style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"It was probably from the flying style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanFortunately, the cut wasn't too deep, but she had to wear long sleeves for a while in this Columbia's heat to hide the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She was applying antibiotic ointment and a fresh style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe learned from today that the warehouse did cause a small dent in Escobar's plan, and it caught his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe knew that their stunt wasn't going to stop style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Now for Step 2, which was now interrupted by a knock on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe poked her head around the corner, seeing Javier standing style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She held up her index finger at him, silently telling him that she would be there in a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe nodded his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She returned now wearing a light jacket, covering her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe opened the door, allowing him to come style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hi," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He walked in, carrying a bottle of style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe saw her place was very sparsely decorated with Christmas with a few Christmas cards sitting on top of her kitchen style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanA big watercolor painting of a Christmas tree was taped up on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe knew that this was her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hey Carino (strongSweetheart/strong), I brought you this," he said, holding out the wine for style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Thank you, but you don't have to."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Well…um…I was thinking of this as a payment."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe took the bottle from him and looked at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""For more cookies, I'm sorry but there are none style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI gave the rest away at work."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He smiled, "No, I liked the card that you made, I was wondering if you had any extras, I would like to send one to my dad back home."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe smiled, almost giving out an style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Sure, just give me a second," she said as she set the bottle on the kitchen counter before heading to her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Help yourself to the kitchen," she called style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Tiffany, her mannequin model that she used for her paintings was now leaning against the wall, wearing a Santa's hat, a red sweater, and a long black style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEither way, it still crept him out a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily came out, carrying a shoebox filled with style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe looked at her, "I got bored," she explained sheepishly, shrugging her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe nodded, taking the box from her, and sitting down on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I made some iced tea, would you like some," she style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He nodded as he started looking through the cards. He found several different cards for Christmas, thank you, birthdays, and blank style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He found one of a man sitting on a boat, fishing with "Happy Birthday" neatly calligraphed on the bottom./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Found something, you like," she asked, setting the drinks on the coffee style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe showed her the fishing style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""That is a birthday card, I thought you wanted a Christmas card."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He smiled at her, "I do but I like this one style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanDo you mind?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"She shook her head no and started going through the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"What about this one," she offered, pulling out a simple Christmas card with hanging Christmas ornaments and 'Merry Christmas' neatly written on the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I like that."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Then here, it is style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThat bottle is worth more than one card."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe held it out for style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe hesitated to take style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Javier, you are not depleting my stash if you are style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanConnie already asked for some to send to her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanTake it."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He smiled, taking the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe smiled, sitting on the other side of the couch, taking a sip of her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe started to speak but ended up clearing his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Emily…um…" he said, clearing his throat style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe took a sip of his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAll of the sudden, he felt like he was an awkward style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe nearly spills the drink on style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Emily stood up, getting a towel from her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe started wiping up the spilled style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I'm sorry," he style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""It's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanIt is just tea."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe set his glass style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Do you want to have dinner with me," he blurted out so style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe jerked her head up, forgetting the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Huh," she said style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Would you like to go out to dinner with me," he slowly style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEven though she was surprised, she did suspect that Connie had something to do with style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Aren't you afraid that I might freak out again?"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe shook his head no, taking her hand into style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""If it happens, we will deal with it together," he assured her, giving her hand, a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Alright," she said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Dreaming Outloud Pro'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The End/span/strong/p