A Unique Crossover

Chapter39: A Knight or A Princess

Wait, what? As I played what I heard Johnny said inside of my head, I kept opening and closing my mouth like it was being controlled by a remote or something. My mind was going lightyears ahead of me and I was trying so hard to slow it down until he continued saying,

"Before you played it on the jumbo screen, I knew about the video."

"You wha- ? How?" I shot the question out, still trying to figure out how in the world Johnny knew about the video before today? I roughly remember sending the video to my cloud and the flash drive that Detective Gemstone has.

Johnny flashed a small smile which was one of those that he gives whenever he's impressed by someone, "You sent it to my cloud with a cipher lock on it which I couldn't open since your graduation."

He gotta be kidding me, I don't remember sending the video to his cloud. I remember sending the video to my cloud, because mine had a Man Un - Ohh.....

Slowly nodding my head as I realise what happened on that night. Then quickly shook my head, suddenly feeling like I was in huge trouble although Angela was no longer in the picture anymore, "I didn't mean to - I mean you weren't supposed to. . ."

Gently taking my hand in his with a softer expression when he said, "I know. That night you were passed out at your desk, with your laptop playing the homemade video of Dad and Mom's last anniversary party."

My heart felt a pang when a flash of that memory came to mind. I remember me and Andy taking turns recording the whole day of our parents' anniversary from the morning until the night where Dad made sure to have the backyard decorated exactly how the dance floor looked on their wedding day.

Playing all of the songs that they danced all night long before leaving for their honeymoon, I remember 'little me' wishing that I get something like that done for my wedding anniversary one day.

Blinking the tears away, not wanting to cry after how well today has been going before Johnny continued, "I've been taught how to cypher many locks in my first year at college, but the one you created was one of the hardest that I've unlocked before."

A light hearted and overjoyed scoff escaped his lips when he finally said, "I only managed to unlock it on Wednesday after our practice."

I couldn't stop the smile that came on my face, Johnny's known to be a master when it comes to computers and cyphering. So, to hear that this new cipher lock that I've created in my drunken state was a challenge for him felt like a huge accomplishment in my books.

Although my curiosity and maybe a little bit of my ego wanted, needed to know, "How come you couldn't cypher it before?"

That's when Johnny's smile became less lighter and more sad when he said, "Instead of using the code that we made together a day after you got back home from your first high school's soccer tournament which has your name and birthday put in it. The one that you created had Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary with 'OA' rather than 'JH'."

Hearing that caused me to inhale sharply and shaking before exhaling slowly, doing my best to control my emotions. This was something that I've never done before, wither I was aware of it or not, so it was just as much of shock to me as heartache. "Guess I was too drunk to know what I was doing at the time."

"Yeah." Johnny said as he rubbed the back of my hand softly. Comforting me after what he had told me before we fell into a short moment of silence, "Angela was the one who hacked your phone and made people think that you were lacking papers to keep your mouth shut?"

It may have sounded like a question, but it was more of a statement. Johnny was putting the pieces of this puzzle together after being given all of them from not knowing what it was.