Chapter Fourteen

Erin’s apartment

“So what did Lucky want?”  Robin asked with a smile.

“He incited me to go over to his house and watch movies.”  Erin said returning the smile.

“So kinda like a date?”

“No, he’s having a party at his house and he invited me to come along.”

“Well it’s a start,” Robin joked.  “I have to get going.  I have to work today.  I’ll see you latter.”

Erin walked up to her computer room and sat down.  A message popped up on the screen that said she had mail.

Erin-

Well the countdown is on.  3 days to do.  Don’t worry I’ll be there.  I might no be able to spend the whole day with you like in the past years but I will be there.

As always,

Love Sonny

Erin smiled.  She loved it when Sonny left her little notes.  She wrote him a quick note back and read the rest of her mail.  There was a note from someone she had been playing an online game with.  They would send each other encrypted massages telling them where to go and what they had to find.  Her opponent wasn’t too good at the encryption but she always put some kind of word game in it.

 

The game continues…

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You will get the rest of the instructions when you finish with that.  My move is over why you answer this question: Who is the next one to dye, the man, the daughter or the father?

Aneleh Cass

 

Erin printed out the code and sat in her green room working on it.  This one was much harder then any other that Aneleh had sent her.  Before she knew it the clock downstairs what chiming 7o’clock.

“Crap!  Lucky going to be her in an hour.”  Erin jumped up and ran to her room.  She showered then changed into a soft floral dress.  Erin pulled her hair up into a French-braid and pulled some strands loose to frame her face.  Erin finished getting ready at ¼ to.  She sat back down in the green room, her heart was beating so fast she didn’t know what to do. Erin picked a few soft white flowers and inhaled their sweet aroma.  Nothing she did calmed her down.  This was highly irregular; she never got this worked up about anything.

There was a knock at the door down stares just as the grandfather clock chimed 8.  Erin pushed a button on the intercom system; “I’ll be down in a sec.”  Erin said.  She grabbed her purse, it was the kind that looked like a mini backpack, picked up the code from where she had left it on the bench, stuffed it into her purse and ran down the stares.

Erin opened the door.  “Mr. Spencer is here to see you.”  Sam said in his usual gruff manner.  Lucky stood behind him obviously used to this kind of thing.

“Hi Lucky.  I’m all ready to go.” Erin said completely ignoring Sam.

“Okay, then let’s get going.” Lucky and Erin walked into the elevator.

“So what movies are we going to watch?” Erin asked as they got into Lucky’s car.  It was a sleek black sports car.  Erin wasn’t sure what kind, she had never seen anything like it before.

“I don’t know, if Devon has any say in it we’ll be watching one of the Scream movies but if I get to pick it’ll probably be an old silent movie.”

“A silent movie?” Erin said surprised.  “I would have never pictured you as the type to like silent movies.”

“I love silent movies.  Some of them are better then a lot of the movies now a days.”  They talked about movies all the way to his house.  They pulled up just as Devon came up the road.

“I see that I arrived just in time.  Lucky told me this was going to be a good party, but I never expected it to be this good.” Devon said looking strait at Erin.

“The party hasn’t even started yet man.”  Lucky knew exactly was Devon was doing, every time he met a girl he was interested in he would flood her with complements and charm, and if that didn’t work he would just move on to the next girl (that had yet to happen though).  Devon used the same lines every time and some how every time the girl fell for it.

“Are you sure, I could have sworn that I just died and went to heaven.”

“And why is that?”  Erin asked.  She knew exactly what he was leading to, but she thought she would just let him have his fun before she told him there was no chance.

“Because this just has to be an angel standing before me.”  Devon said, smooth as ice.

“I’m sorry you must be dreaming then because it’s just Lucky and I here.”

“That’s what I mean.  An angel, you.”

“Nice try, but I don’t think so.  I’m not the kind that falls for those overused pick-up lined.”  Erin smiled.  Her father had taught her how to say those kinds of things without making it sound like you were turning then down.  That way you didn’t make any unwanted enemies.

As he had thought Devon got to pick the movie and never failing, the picked Scream.  About half way through the movie Lucky noticed that Erin was not in the living room watching the movie.  In fact he hadn’t seen her for the past 20 minutes.  Lucky got up and walked into the kitchen, thinking that maybe she had gone in there.  ‘No, she wasn’t in there, where could she be?’  Lucky thought.  He glanced out the window and saw Erin sitting on the back porch looking up into the night sky.

Erin had left the room after the first 20 minutes.  Scream was the most boring movie she had ever seen, it was so predictable.  She knew right after the scene with the phone that the boyfriend was the stalker.  She had gone outside for a breath of fresh air and had just stayed there.  She could hear the other girls screaming at the movie, they wouldn’t be screaming if they had seen what she had seen and heard.

“Beautiful night, isn’t it?” Lucky said sitting down next to her.

“Yah, it’s so peaceful here.  Nothing like LA.  It’s always so loud there.  I like it here.”  Erin said looking back up into the sky.

“So what are looking at?”

“I’m looking for my mother’s wishing star.”

“Her what?”

“Her wishing star.  When my father was away on business she would let me stay up with her and watch the stars.  She would point up to the brightest star in the sky and we would both make a wish.  She would always wish for safety for my father,” Erin paused.  “There it is.”  She pointed up.  Lucky moved his head closer so he could see which star she was pointing to.

“What would you wish for?” Lucky asked.  Erin turned her head and stopped.  Their faces were so close that they were almost touching.  Erin quickly moved so that they weren’t so close.  She and Lucky just sat there for a moment and looked at each other, neither knowing what to say.

They sat in silence for a few minutes.  They could still hear the other girls screaming from within.  “Let me guess you aren’t a big fan of horror?”  Lucky joked.

“I’ve seen to much of it in real life to want to watch it for fun.”  Erin said with a sad smile.

“Well then why don’t we go and watch a good old-fashioned silent movie?”  Lucky asked.

 “I’d love to.”

“Good.  I have a TV in my room so we can watch it there.”  Lucky said getting up and putting a hand out to help Erin up also.  They walked passed the other group of kids.  They were so engrossed in the movie that they didn’t notice Erin and Lucky go upstairs hand-in-hand.  Lucky popped the tape in his VCR and they sat down on the floor.  Erin sat next to Lucky and soon her eyes shut in peaceful sleep.