My Shadow

Like Hell We Will

Gideon
Mia and I are a power couple and we run our own businesses and very successful ones. We told her and my families that we weren't jumping through hoops to satisfy their social expectations or what they seem to think are social obligations that Mia and I fail to see that we are obligated to throw another wedding to appease anyone at all. Social amenities be damned. Mia was so proud of me for standing my ground and she told her family she agreed with everything I said to my family and she followed suit.

Mia
We finally told them a reception was fine but no more than a hundred people were to be invited and the parents will need to fight it out together. It looks like it will be in Seattle since Gideon has no intentions of having it in New York. The paparazzi will be far worse in New York. My security has tightened up. I have two women and two men guarding me. Apparently Ashley is not a happy camper and her nose hasn't healed properly. She's had to have major rhinoplasty done. She wasn't very pretty to begin with and with her nose crooked it makes it worse. Anastasia said that I must have her nose in just the right place because she saw her nose and it was repaired but a sneeze made it need more work and someone with more training to put it looking normal. So she's been trying to get me alone and it's not working. We have a restraining order out against her. Anastasia said that Ashley is taking chances with her life because a hit in her nose right now could kill her. Anastasia knows just where to hit to kill on the nose. She won't tell me though.

Grace
We finally decide on fifty people per family for the party for Mia and Gideons wedding. It's happening here in Seattle and Mia's catering and restaurant have the orders and Mia is having her cake created by her wedding cake creator. We got the orders from Mia and Gideon. They chose numerous different types of food and the banquet rooms in Mia's buildings. That will make it easier for everyone. The photographer is Jose Rodriquez Jr and his assistant Rachael Weiss.

Ellen
We all were very upset but we can't move either one of them on this so we have to settle for a party celebrating their wedding. After tasting the food at Mia's we decided that it was great and Gideon did good by helping expand such a lucrative business. She's a very smart young lady who has done most of this on her own, granted Josh Bingham was a great idea to put in as COO and they have grown and expanded and have over 500 hundred employees and still hiring people. All employees are well versed in customer service skills and are able to smooth over any frays easily. Christopher and Carrick are just following directions and invitations are being delivered to people. The grandparents are being flown in and have been put up in a hotel suite on opposite ends of the hotels. They don't get along and never have. The Cross family never liked my parents and they never will. A family feud between the Cross families and the Anderson families. It was all over a company both wanted but they fought over getting it so much that the owner refused to sell to either the Cross or the Anderson families. They sold it to the employees. We have given them instructions on how to act and if they don't behave themselves they are not invited.

Christopher
I hope all hell doesn't break loose at the party. We are going to try to keep the grandparents away from each other. Security will be assuring they behave. The photographer will be asked to get the family photos done and very quickly and if necessary photoshop them in. We have spoken to him already and he has ideas of how to handle everything using the studio he has. He actually has some ideas we never thought of. He definitely knows special effects. Mia has given him a large area where he expanded, he gave us a tour of his space. Mia is making a lot of money from his business and he's thrilled she offered him some initial help.

Carrick
Jose really has been working hard on all kinds of projects and it shows and he is expanding so much that Mia has offered to help him move even further into the special effects and video effects as well. It is amazing what he can do and he has staff that are just as talented. He agreed to take the photographs and videos along with bringing in the grandparents to get them photographed and photoshop them into everything. He showed us exactly what it would look like.

Gideon
We are welcoming the guests and luckily there are only a hundred guests at least we thought there were, I knew Ashley was looking for revenge, but I didn't expect her to try to get into this party. Little did I know she failed to notice that she was being followed by Theresa Prescott. She only got community service of two hundred hours so she has been free for a long time.

Mia
Sawyer has warned me that Theresa has spotted Ashley and is following her at this point, but before she could take her into custody Ashley knocked Theresa out and took her gun from her. I feel Anastasia move to me and she tells me to follow her and now. Carla meets us and then Ray has a cart with a table cloth on it. They place me inside the empty cart and cover it back up. I have to stay where I am at. I feel the cart moving and then hear what sounds like a gun going off. Then another gun going off. I am scared that Ashley has hurt someone. Suddenly the doors open up and Gideon pulls me into his arms.

Christian
I watch as Anastasia takes Mia and passes her off to her mother and her father and they roll Mia away inside an empty serving trolley. Anastasia kisses me and pulls out a gun from her purse and grabs the women next to Gideon by the neck and points the gun at her head the gun in the woman's hand goes off twice before Anastasia pulls it from her hand after she renders her unconscious. Soon security guards are on top of Ashley. Theresa is found bleeding from a head wound and taken to the hospital. Ashley is taken to jail. They found the bullets lodged into the floor next to Gideons feet. If he had moved he would have lost some toes.

Anastasia
I saw her coming and I got Mia out if the way first and then I went back to save Gideon and I got lucky. Mom and dad were ready as usual for anything that might happen when it comes to crazy people doing crazy things. The party was a perfect opportunity for crazy to show up to do evil things to good people.