Thunder: Chapter 11.5

11.5

Katie smiled with her head down on her computer. Even though she was a very popular person, she never really had a true relationship. She was always afraid of getting hurt in a relationship. But in the case with Cayden, those feelings went away. She had so much lust in her veins.


Then a voice popped up. “When did you decide to enter the relationship world?”

Her head popped up and looked behind her only to find no other than Lance. She rolled her eyes. “Shut up,” she growled. And she turned around to open her computer. She heard Lance laugh and walk towards her.

“Cayden Johnson huh?”

She giggled from embarrassment. “Was I that obvious?”

“Oh please. So are you going to go out with him?”

She looked at him to show that he asking questions was an inconvenience. “I’m not sure. Besides I have so much stuff to do. Like planning of funeral for one thing.”

“Speaking of death,” he said, changing the subject, “How are the plans going?”

Katie was glad that she could get her mind off of Cayden. She maximized her screen, and pointed her pen at the prices on her scrap of paper. “These are some basic prices that I found. I tried to find the most reliable equipment at a small price—“

“Price doesn’t matter,” Lance interrupted, “I’m sure Bonnie would want you to get me the best.

“Okay then,” she said. She then looked back and the computer, and put back on her reading glasses, “If we order tonight, it will all get here within a few days.”

“Okay great,” he smiled. Knowing that he was only a few days from fighting crime made his spirits rise. He then gathered his things and got up.

“Where are you going?” She asked. Just around that time Shannon had arrived in the library and sat down. She unloaded her stuff onto the table, and tried to include herself in the conversation. But she saw it didn’t work when Lance continued moving toward.

“I got to go talk to Monica before she freaks out for not being able to talk to me for two days.” He rolls his eyes and laughs. Then he waved them bye and left.

Katie and Shannon looked at eachother surprised after the sudden leave that Lance took. “Well then,” Shannon said, “What are you working on?”

Katie quickly threw her papers and shut her computer. “Nothing,” she replied, “What about you? Got anything new?”

Shannon noticed the sudden reaction by Katie. She thought she knew what was going on. “I did it.”

“Did what?” Katie asked while gathering loose papers.

Shannon stuttered a few times before finally getting it out. “I sent the message that told Lance what was happening.”

Katie dropped her papers, but didn’t move her body. The shock paralyzed her. Her jaw dropped. She slowly moved her head towards Shannon. “What did you say?”

“I sent the message.”

Katie didn’t understand. “But that’s impossible. The message was sent from the police database.”

“I know,” she said, “The police didn’t belive me when I called them and they hung up on me.”

“But they said that they reported it,” Katie debated.

“No they didn’t. I asked the man in charged to report it and they said that it was a waste of their time. So I sent a text message to their database and knew that it would be sent to Lance.”

“How did you know how to break into the database?” Katie asked, amused.

Shannon smiled. “Surely you didn’t think that I didn’t know what you and Lance have been talking about for the past month.”

Katie gave a slight giggle. Then her expression became more serious. “So after you broke into the database they made it look that they made the report all along.”

“Yep,” Shannon replied.

Katie didn’t know what to say. “Well thanks for helping,” she said, and then she started working on her notes again. Shannon was appalled. She thought that Katie was going to include her in on what was going on.

“Well?” Shannon said.

“Well what?” Katie replied, still keeping her eyes on her work.

Shannon was getting very agitated. Then it hit her. “It was him. Lance. He stopped those men at the docks.”

Katie then looked away from her notes and looked at Shannon. She knew that it was pointless to keep anything from her. She knew enough as it was. “Yes,” she confirmed.

Shannon sighed. She now realized that she helped Lance nearly get killed. “Im sorry.”

“You didn’t know that he would go. You thought that he would alert someone that could stop them.” She turned around and put her hand on her knee. “Its not your fault.”

Getting comfort from Katie really helped Shannon. She put a smile on her face. Katie was right. She did nothing wrong. “Ok then. What is he doing now?”

Katie sighed. “He is creating a pipe dream that is going to get himself killed.” She hesitated to tell Shannon, but knew that she needed to know. “He wants to be some kind of super hero.”

Shannon laughed. She couldn’t contain herself. Then she looked and saw that the expression on Katie’s face had not changed. “Oh my God, your serious?”

“That’s what I said,” Katie replied.

Shannon still couldn’t belive it. “Surley he can’t be serious.”

“He is,” she replied. “Me and Bonnie all thought it was a joke. But it wasn’t. Bonnie didn’t take it too well. But he is determined.”

Shannon was in a jaw drop position. Surley she was joking. Something like this was suicide. “So what is he doing now?”

Katie then knew that it was safe to show Shannon all the stuff. She flipped open her computer. She pointed at all the stuff. “Well he is trying to get a suit built together. He put me in charge of that.”

Shannon shook her head. “This is crazy.”

Katie had to agree. “Yeah, but you know, I kind of admire it. He is doing what nobody else would do. He stopped close to the impossible. He is well trained and if he made it at the docks, he can probably make it through anything.”

“Yeah I guess so,” Shannon sorrowfully.

Katie looked at her watch. It was time to go. She shut her computer and loaded her papers. She got up and wrapped her computer bag around her shoulder. “I got to go. And listen, don’t tell Lance about any of this. I gave my solemn oath that I wouldn’t tell anybody. But I know that you will be more involved than we think.” Then she straightened her wrinkled shirt, and walked out, leaving Shannon speechless.