After the briefing Derric and Trent shared a taxi to Trent's house, as they got out of the taxi, Trent noticed Chasity driving by and waved at her, she smiled. "Hey dude, you mind if I crash at your place until I work out a new form of transportation? I'm pretty sure my car got impounded by now."
Trent thought for a second "Ehhhh, sure I guess so but I have some plans I'm trying to set in motion for tonight, so just consider this your house. I trust you enough to say that without getting too much into details." Derric saluted Trent "SIR YES SIR! I PROMISE TO SERVE MYSELF AND RAID THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR KITCHEN LIKE IT WAS MY OWN, SIR! ALSO, IF ANY LOVELY FEMALES HAPPEN TO COME BY I WILL-"
"Do no such thing." Trent cut in and Derric continued "STAY WITH BLUE-BALLS," He dropped his hand "even though I don't think that's very fair. I seen you wave at that pretty thing driving by, oh yeah, I noticed. You get to go get some play, while poor little Derric stays home and messes up your credit by buying some booty flicks. You know what, when she comes by one of these days, I'm going to pull up your bill and I'm going to point to them too, explain your way out of that PERV!"
"Oh really? Have fun walking home then" as Trent starts walking away Derric yelled out "I'M PLAYING MAN!" And Trent threw his keys back at Derric and continued walking to his destination. The closest house to him was the older couples, the mailbox read "Mitchells" and as he passed, he looked in the big window, they were having dinner. The wife seen him and waved, he politely waved back as he seen two kids and a puppy run across the room "Hm, never knew it was an established family." The next house down was his stop. Chasity was still sitting in her car, noticed Trent and started fidgeting, Trent thought it was pretty weird but still continued towards her. As he got close he threw his hands up "Whoa now, don't shoot me, I just came for a social visit. I don't think I look too intimidating, perhaps a bit dirty but work will do that to you." She rolled her window down "Oh, no no sorry I just had to put something away and I then saw you and panicked a bit and I don't know" She nervously chuckled "I'm a mess right now. Good evening though."
Trent starts sniffing and looked around puzzled "Hm, you smell that? It smells like some great bud."
"You smoke??" Chasity asked in a surprised manner. "If so, hop in." Trent got in on the passenger side. Chasity was light-brown with hazel eyes like Trents, she was about 5'3" with a great figure from working out and long brown hair. "Please don't tell me THIS was the reason you started acting all weird."
"Well some people don't like marijuana" She said.
"I know that but you were acting like this was high-school and I was going to tell the teacher or principal if I seen you haha, I think we're a bit too grown for that." Trent said as Chasity laughed "Oh shut up, I just got a bit paranoid. I thought you would think its disgusting or something."
"Oh noooo, my bro and I love to take a trip on planes when we have some downtime." Chasity re-lit her blunt. "Well it isn't a plane but I hope you like blunts, if not you can backtrack yourself home sir." She said in a playful manner. Trent smiled "Fair enough, but I DO like blunts and even if I didn't", Trent pulled a plane out of his pocket, "I have one of these and probably better ingredients in it, so in your face." As he waved the plane close to her nose, she smelled it "It does smell great, in that case we might have to schedule more social visits." They both laughed and she passed the blunt to him, as he gave her the plane and a lighter. They sat in the car and talked for about an hour and a half. Meanwhile in Trent's house, Derric was doing the exact same thing but instead of unwinding, he was getting angry. "WHAT THE FUCK!! I ordered that damn pizza an hour and a half ago, what do you mean it's still being made!? How hard is it to make a three-cheese and chicken pizza?"
"I apologize for the inconvenience sir, but at the moment we are very busy so your order had to wait just a bit longer."
"Ok, so about the discount you're going to give me, I think 60% is pretty fair."
"Excuse me sir?" The man on the phone said.
"The customer is ALWAYS right, your service has been wayyyy below par, in golf terms, your service is 6 times worse than a triple bogey so I expect to get a 60% discount, clear enough for you?"
"Um... sir, I'm not allowed to do that."
"Look, I don't want to sound rude or anything but I could give two shits about what you're ALLOWED to do, but I do know what you're GOING to do, and that is give an unhappy customer that damn 60% discount. Thanks."
After a few seconds of silence Derric hears "Hello?"
"Yes, who am I speaking with?" Derric responded.
"This is Mr. Millers, the manager of this establishment, I hear you have a situation, how may I help you?"
"Oh, Mr. Millers how's it going. There WAS a problem but the other guy that was on the phone cleared it all up for me and said I'd get a nice 60% discount for my hour and forty-five minute wait for a three-cheese and chicken pizza, which he agreed, shouldn't have taken NEARLY as long to make. I do appreciate you coming on the phone to help though but it's resolved."
"Hm... one second if you will, I just need to verify something and I will be right back with you and I greatly apologize for the wait." After a few minutes of waiting Mr. Millers comes back on the line. "Hello?"
"Yes?"
"May I have your name and address please?"
"Does this mean I'm getting my discount?"
"I can get you a discount, although 60% is very steep sir, I can do a 5% discount and free breadsticks for your wait, does that satisfy you sir?"
Derric thought for a second "Very tempting but you're asking me to wait another thirty to forty minutes for my food to be made and delivered, can you add another 5% to that discount and pasta instead of breadsticks?"
There was a pause and then "I can make that possible for you sir, and I hope we can continue relying on your service to our restaurant. May I have your name and address please?"
"Thank you Mr. Miller and you definitely will. My name is Trent Xneighler, X-N-E-I-G-H-L-E-R and I live on 442 Lodging Road."
"Thank you sir, your food will be there, guaranteed, in twenty-five minutes and, once again, we apologize for the service. Have a good night."
"You too." Derric hangs up the phone and laughs "Trent you silver tongue, I never knew you were such the negotiator. Now...where the fuck did I put my plane???"
Back in Chasity's car, Trent and her were sharing funny stories about their past. "-Jermaine was running and his pants got caught on the gate and it ripped them clean off, showing his Elmo tighty-whities!" Chasity said and they both laughed. "NOOOOO! HAHAHAHA! You're playing, that didn't happen In front of everyone." Trent playfully slapped her arm as she said "I kid you not Trent, in front of the WHOLE class. We called him Elmo for the rest of the school year, unfortunately for him we also went to the same middle and high school, so I COULDN'T just let him forget."
"Weird, I knew that halo on you looked a bit pointy. Chasity has a dark-side, I like, although I never would have guessed it."
Chasity chuckles "Well I never claimed to be a good girl, but there's a lot about me you don't know and would never guess."
"So other than being on-call for work, what's your agenda for tonight? I was thinking you could fill me in more about your captivating life over dinner. I have this spot I like to eat at and they serve fantastic fish, chicken and pasta. Plus I'm a regular, so the wait will be non-existent, that is, IF you're up for it?" Chasity shyly smiles, "Well I don't know, I had some plans on sitting home, eating some ice-cream, maybe watching a boring movie or two-". Trent cuts in "Sounds like fun, really haha."
"That's my point jerk." Chasity says as she laughs, then Trent says "Ok tell you what, how about we watch some movies together after we grab something to eat? It's just a harmless dinner, plus I think the notebook can wait an hour or two."
"I was thinking more along the lines of "Finding Nemo", I love that movie" Trent wasn't sure if she was joking but said "And that's my cue to find the closest highway to take a nap on." Chasity busts out laughing "IT'S NOT EVEN THAT BAD! If you don't promise to give it a chance, I won't go with you to dinner." Trent does a long sigh and gives her a pouty face and mummers, with a small smirk on his face, "Fine, but I'm lighting up a plane while we watch and I'm not sharing either." They both laugh and start heading to Trent's favorite place to eat, "Maurice Street".
The restaurant had a big colorful sign that displayed the name, the building had two floors, a bar and karaoke, so needless to say it was packed and still there were people waiting outside trying to get in. Trent knew the owner Maurice from his orphanage, so when he got there, the man at the front door immediately showed Trent and Chastity to the VIP section of the restaurant. "Good evening Mr. Trent nice to see you again, who is this lovely lady that decided to accompany you today?" The waiter asked. "How's it going Benji, this little lady here is my good friend Chasity. Chasity, this is the man that will make sure you always get great seats and better food, Benjamin or Benji for short." The waiter takes a bow as Chasity replies "It's very nice to meet you Benjamin." He smiles, "No, no the pleasure is all mine. It's about time he decided to bring a guest here-" He sets one menu on the table and continues "I was starting to worry about him for a second." He chuckles a bit.
"Benji, if you don't get the hell away right now I'm going to be the gate to your Jermaine." Trent said as Chasity snickers, "Well, I'm guessing that's an inside joke but one thing for sure is I don't want to find out what that means. I'll assume you're going with the pasta, chicken fish combo and for the lady I will give you 5 minutes to look over the menu, while I bring some beverages over." said Benjamin. Trent responded "Can you bring some champagne please? Any one you think tastes good, it doesn't exactly matter to me." Benjamin bows and goes into the kitchen to get their drinks. As the whole conversation was happening, there was a lady three tables away, behind Chasity, whose eyes were locked onto Trent, which he quickly noticed but decided not to make too much of a scene about it, although it really bothered him because there was something not quite right about that lady, he couldn't put his finger on it. Benji brings the champagne and glasses to the table and pours them "So miss Chasity, have you decided on what you will be eating or do you need more time?"
"Yes, I think I will take a lobster, clean, with some rice and beans."
"Ah, excellent choice, your meals will be here shortly. If there's anything else you need throughout the night, do not hesitate to pull me from a different table to assist you, god knows Trent won't." Everyone laughs and Trent says "Hey, I'm not that-" he stops and thinks for a second as Benjamin says "Exactly." Laughs, and walks away. Trent makes eye contact with the lady for a quick second "Why is she just staring at me?" Trent asks himself as he's quickly interrupted by Chasity, "So champagne just for a "good friend" hmm?" She asks with a small smile. "Yeah, you think I should have told him that we're dating? I mean, he and I are close but I didn't think it was necessary." Chasity laughs with a surprised look "Who said we were dating though?"
"Well I took you to dinner right? And we have a boring movie that we plan on watching later, plus you smoked my weed, so I think we can safely say that we're dating now."
"Hey, Finding Nemo is NOT boring ok!" Chasity laughed "But that doesn't mean we're dating either Trent." He just smiled "Give me a few hours to change your mind then." As he said that, the lady behind Chasity got up and walked towards them, as she approached, her heel broke right next to their table and she stumbled over Chasity with a "THUD" as the lady hits the table saying "WHOA!" as she falls. Trent gets up to help the lady to her feet and looks at Chasity to make sure nothing spilt, "Excuse me ma'am are you ok? You aren't hurt or anything are you?" He asks and at that moment he noticed Chasity's glass, it was fizzing slightly. "Oh yes, I'm quite alright sir thank you. UGH! These worthless heels are no good! $420 on heels that can't even support anyone." The clumsy lady said. Chasity looks down at them, "They look really cute though, for 420 dollars I'm amazed they broke. I guess you only paid for looks." The clumsy lady sighed and replied "It appears that way... I do apologize for interrupting your lovely dinner by the way. I'm glad nothing spilt." As she gestures at the glasses, Chasity's glass looked normal again as Trent was just fixated on the lady. She had short black hair, glasses on and she was white, that's all he was able to get from her, she had glasses which blocked her eyes, and a long coat. She walks away blending into the crowd, Trent was watching her the whole time and then lost her, alarmed he thinks to himself "What the hell?? Where did she disappear to?!" Trent scans the room looking for the woman, remembers the fizz and quickly turns his attention to Chasity who was just about to take a sip of her champagne. Trent quickly said "RUDE!" and she stops, confused, and says "What are you talking about?"
"We didn't even toast, that's just plain out rude. Especially with such a nice drink, on a nice evening, with a great date." He smiles at her and she gives a warm smile back, "Well with reasons like those I suppose you're right, may I?" She asks.
"Be my guest." Trent replied
"To a great evening, filled with laughs, smiles and apparently clumsiness." They cling their glasses together and Trent quickly takes a sip before Chasity could raise her glass and spits it out. "BLEH!! THIS IS DISGUSTING!" Trent says with a disgusted face, "I'm going to order a different drink, and different glasses, I don't even want the after-taste it's that bad." Chasity sits her glass down "Is it really that bad? I was actually looking forward to trying it, doesn't look horrible."
"Trust me, you don't want it. I'm sorry to ruin the night, but can we leave? I'm not feeling too hot right now. My head started pounding out of nowhere and I don't think I'll be able to keep anything down either." As he said that Benji comes to their table with plates in hand, 'Bon appetite you two." As he sets them down on the table. Chasity says "yeah, sure we can do that. Excuse me Benji, do you mind if we get these to go? Trent's not feeling so good." Benji looks at Trent who already had the "I'm not feeling good" face on as he replies "Yeah yeah, of course I'll get that to you guys right away, Trent you get some rest man, you look like you might need it." Chasity said "Was the champagne THAT bad?? We should report it before we leave-"
"NO!" Trent cut in, "No, we can't do that. I know the owner of this place and he's worked hard to get this place to what you see today, I won't just put him out in the spotlight but I will let him know in private." They got up to meet Benji near the front door and as they were walking away, in the corner of the restaurant, on the second floor, the mysterious lady looks down at them.
"Interesting... he's a fast thinker, he got her to not drink it while avoiding raising suspicion." She whispers to a man in a trench coat, fedora and glasses. "Hmm... he's interesting alright. He also knew he needed to get away from here sooner than later." Just then, the mysterious guys phone rang, he answers "Report?"
"Dim-witted, but very skilled. He'll stay alive if he's lucky and smart." The person on the phone said as the man replied "Excellent. Meet at the Sanctuary." The person on the other end said "Understood." and they hung up the phone. During Trent's episode, Derric was at home, sitting down watching TV.
"Ahhhh, a good high man movie, some pizza, and Trent's favorite metal bowl he told me never to use filled with popcorn, if this isn't the life I don't know what is. Maybe if it was my own house and there was a female involved but Trent's casa es mi casa. Speaking of getting to my own house..." Derric starts dialing a number in his phone. *RING!* *RING!* "Hello?"
"Hey Hector, it's Derric. How's the new ride coming along? Will it be done by tonight?"
*DING-DONG* the doorbell rings as Derric gets up to answer the door. "There's a small amount of complications with the mods you wanted on it, but for the most part yeah, you'll have it in 5 hours or so"
"I don't see what's so complicated about giving me suicide doors, and some hover-pads, what about if I have to go across-" As he opens the door he sees a gorgeous lady, Derric's jaw drops a bit "-the Atlantic... I have to call you back bye."
"Wai-" Hector tries saying as Derric quickly hangs up. "How may I help you?" Derric replies to the lady.
"Hi, may I use your phone please? My car broke down outside and my phone is dead so I can't even call anyone for help." The lady says. Derric smiles and throws his phone "Sure! You'll have to come in and use my house phone though, I seem to have misplaced my cellular device." As he bows and gestures her inside he says "Please enter my humble abode." The lady chuckles "That's funny, thank you kind sir." She walks in and looks around, "I love the interior of your house, is this marble flooring?" As she points to the kitchen floor.
"Great eye. It is indeed marble, flown straight from Italia" Derric responds.
"Impressive, and I REALLY love the smell of the house, what is that "Le'Canibes"? She asks with a smile, Derric laughs "Oh no my good lady, that is actually chivalry. Doesn't it smell so wonderful?"
"It does, no wonder why I don't smell this very often. It's rare to find someone with that."
"Well if you think that's rare, how about a phone with a cord?" They laughed, then she asks "Do you really have a cord phone?"
"Pssh, hell no haha, that's more rare than Michael Jacksons first nose." He points to the kitchen phone as she busts out laughing and starts dialing a number. *RING* *RING* the ringing stops but no one talks on the other end. "Hello?" She says, but no answer. "Helllloooo??" Again, no answer. She gestures, at the phone, to Derric and mouths "Why isn't it working?" Derric walks over and puts it on speaker "I probably should have said the ear part works when it wants to sorrryyy." he whispers and she mouths "Don't worry."
"Hello?" She says and then they hear a "Can you hear me Jess?"
"Yeah, much better Ryan. I have a huge problem right now. My car broke down and to make matters worse, my phone is dead. Someone was nice enough to let me use their phone but I have an important meeting to get to. Can you come tow me to your auto-body shop?"
"Sure, I'll be able to do that, I owe you one anyway. There's one problem though, you're going to have to wait a few hours." Ryan says as Jess exclaims "Why is that!? I NEED to get some rest so I'm fully prepared for my presentation. If I'm late or not at 100% for this, it could RUIN me Ryan RUIN!"
"Hey hey hey! No need to bite my head off, I'm just out of town right now, driving back as we speak. If I could, I'd be there in 10 minutes. Hey, are you going to be there awhile? This guy isn't a weirdo or anything is he?" He whispers. Jess laughs a bit as Derric says "Hey I heard that fat Ryan. I don't even have to see you to know that you look like a creep, you damn sure sound like one." Jess giggles a bit "Hey now, that's my cousin you're talking about! And yes, I'll be here until you get close, just call this phone number back. Also no, he doesn't strike me as a weirdo-" She says while looking at Derric, as he puts on a cheesy smile "At least not a weirdo in a bad way." She says smiling.
"Ok but if you need me just call. See you in a few hours, Bye." Ryan said as he hung up.
"Well, since we both know you have a few free hours, how about some chivalry?" He asks waving a plane back and forth. "Don't mind if I do, such a gentleman you are." Jess says. A few minutes later, both of them are baked. Derric stares off into space, and then at the empty pizza box, then at the beautiful girl next to him. She was a red-head, with dimples and light skin. She had on a short skirt with a short blouse "What kind of test is this? It just feels too easy, like she WANTS to get taken advantage of. Women. I wonder if she'd feel some kind of way if I grabbed a boob." Derric starts to reach over to Jess as she asks "Umm, what are you doing?"
"The name's Derric first of all, and second I'm just grabbing the remote you're sitting near." He grabs the remote and changes the channel. "What's your full name by the way Jess? Is it Jessica? Jessabelle?"
"You won't have to worry about that because you might not make it through the night..." She says as she quickly pulls a blade from her skirt and thrusts it at Derrics throat. Derric barely had enough time to respond as he blocks the knife with the popcorn bowl, grabs the assailants wrist with one hand, throws the popcorn bowl at her with his free hand (which she blocks), lets go, flips over the couch onto the table behind it which slides across the well waxed wooden floors into the kitchen area, where he backflips off the table into his stance. She smiles devilishly "You are skilled. They said you would be." Derric's eyes narrow "Who's "they" exactly? And how do you know anything about me?" Jess laughed "I know this isn't your house, it's Trent's. I know you have a weakness for women and I also know that by now, if Trent is as unprepared as you are, then his "date" is expected to take a turn for the worst any second now." Derric's face got serious and the aura his eyes gave off was cold and dark, eyes of a killer, "If you hurt him or the girl, I WILL kill you and your organization." He pulls a dagger out from under the island counter. "I see you know the weapon places in here as-well, I'll be sure to take a note of that. As for you killing ANYONE in my organization?" She laughs hysterically "I couldn't see you beating our WEAKEST member, let alone the leader." Derric throws the dagger at her, which she easily dodges "Pathetic, I thought you would be more entertaining than this Derric, you talk a good game th-" Before she could finish, a flurry of projectiles rushes towards her from the left, which she dodges, from above, Derric took the time to get in position while her eyes left him, jumping from the counter top, to a pillar, to the chandelier, grabbing another blade hidden within it, and jumping down to finish the job. As she dodged the projectiles, within fractions of a second, she knew the aerial attack was coming and back flipped out of harm's way into a handstand, clicked her heels together which unveiled two blades and quickly, she turned into a deadly tornado. Derric quickly created distance as she chased him, jumping and spinning, while still in a handstand. She followed Derric onto a rug which he pulled from under her, as he pulled it she jumped, landed, and that tornado turned into a deadly break-dance. Derric hit a switch close to a painting and behind him, in a pillar, a sword appeared. "Sorry Tex." He said before taking it out and swinging low. Jess jumped back. "This house is very interesting. Tell me, how many weapons and traps are in here that YOU know of? There's probably a lot more that you don't know." Derric says nothing and rushes after her, she pulls out twin daggers and charges back. As they clash blades, Derric notices amusement on her face, he gets angry but remains calm, he pushes her daggers into the air as she stumbles back (although they never leave her hands) and tries slashing downward going for the finishing cut, Jess promptly drops to the floor and grabs the blade between her feet.
Jess shakes her head, "Not that easy." She pulls the blade forward and flips Derric, landing on top of him with a blade in his stomach. Derric lets out a small yell as she explains "Don't worry, this isn't in a lethal area, we want you alive. However, this blade I have, and all of them I've been using, is coated in a poison. You WILL die if you don't get treated. You can get treated by a regular hospital, but good luck explaining it to them. Hopefully Trent's girlfriend can help you, if she isn't dead that is. Oh! Also this lovely poison here will paralyze you about 90% of the way, I'll tell you how to survive. Find something to disinfect that beautiful wound there, cover it, and pray a doctor or miracle comes your way within.....40 minutes." She kisses Derric "Good luck." She pulls her phone out, "It was never dead." she mouths before making the call. "Dim-witted, but very skilled. He'll stay alive if he's lucky and smart.....Understood." She walks out the door but before she closes it she says "I like you Derric, so I'll help you out." and breaks a window, "He'll notice."
Derric was rapidly losing not only blood, but also the feeling in his body, his legs weren't working and he could barely move his arms. His mind goes into overdrive, he knows Trent has anti-poison in his house, that's a given, but he didn't know where and most likely it's out of his reach "I need to get this disinfected; I doubt she told me the whole story." He thought to himself as he slowly crawled into the kitchen "Vinegar? No no... He has some liquor close by." "AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Derric screams as he stops crawling. Shaking, he whispers to himself "This bitch didn't say it would hurt like hell to move...pull through it Lock..." He takes a deep breath and continues to crawl into the kitchen. 10 minutes and a pint of blood later, he makes it to the cabinet with the liquor, out of breath he thinks to himself "I'm so fuckin' glad I convinced him to put it on the bottom. Although when we get drunk it's going to suck..." He lightly laughs to himself and grabs some vodka. He pulls a rag down and grabs a wooden mixing spoon which he puts in his mouth and bites down hard. He opens the liquor and pours it on his wound without thinking or second guessing. He lets out a muffled yell and quickly puts the rag over it. Breathing fast, Derric opens a drawer to find some tape, "Come on Trent be an average dude PLEASE..." he begs to himself and pulls the whole drawer down, with luck, duct tape falls out. Derric could have cried when he sees it as he tears a piece off and tapes the rag to his wound "Fuck it, if I'm going to die I don't want to feel it." He says to himself and falls asleep. By the time he fell asleep, Trent and Chasity were 5 minutes away from the house, Trent had an uneasy feeling about the whole thing and Chasity could tell he wasn't sick but SOMETHING was wrong.
"Want to talk Trent?" She asked.
"About what?"
"About the REAL reason you wanted to leave early, did you know her or something? Was that an Ex of yours?" Chasity had a serious look on her face as she drove but Trent thought it was hilarious, "HAHAHAHA! Nooooo, nothing like that it's just the champagne didn't sit right with my stomach, I guess it was something I ate before I went out. I'm fine though don't worry." He said with a smile as she responded "Hmmm...I have great intuition, but if you say so, I'll take your word for it even though I know you're hiding something." Trent couldn't help but be a bit impressed at how she could see through him, most people couldn't, the only people he knew of that could were Derric, Leslie and Kong. As he sat there they were getting ready to pass Trents house as he noticed the broken window, "STOP!!" Trent screamed as Chasity slammed on the breaks and yells "What's wrong!?" Trent swiftly jumps out of his open window, slides across the hood of her car and runs inside, Chasity looks at his performance amazed. Trent bursts inside the house and quickly notices nothing else but the mini pool of blood, the trail and then his best friend passed out. "DERRIC!!!!" Trent yells and wakes him up in the process "Derric....what the fuck! What happened??" He whispers to him as he starts cleaning his wound. "Chasity help me please!"
Chasity already had a medical kit in hand when she walked in and Trent said "Excellent intuition.." to himself. Derric lowly responded "Did you have a crazy night also? I heard it was.." and he falls back asleep. Trent quickly races upstairs to grab anti-poison and comes back down to see Chasity prepping her patient for stitching. "Here! I have some of this you should pour on the wound before you start." Chasity looks at the weird bottle of green liquid "Exactly what is this? I haven't seen anything like this at the hospital or anywhere as a matter of fact."
"Chasity please, I promise I will explain everything to you later but right now I can't lose my brother, so please just pour that on the wound and help me save him please!" Trent's face looked scared although his words and body said he was very calm. She shook her head yes, poured the liquid and started fixing up Derric. An hour and a half later, Derric was stable, stitched up, cleaned and fast asleep as Trent and Chasity cleaned up.