PROJECT ANDERSON

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE: SARGE

I was already worried about how I was supposed to protect the other and now I was worried about what was going to happen to Andie if we don't get to her in time.

I just had to hope that she would be able to 'share the burden' sooner rather than later.

She sounded so scared...how much did she know about the cure inside of her?

Did she know that she was going to die?

I guess I could have called her and asked, but I figured that they needed time to think about their next move.

And I didn't want to upset her anymore.

This was all just too much for me to comprehend.

First he tries to use my wife for his cure, I guess because she was pregnant and now he is using Andie and it's slowly killing her.

If he was planning on using Andie when he got Steven then why did use my wife first?

This all didn't make any sense, from him making sure that I was stuck in the hospital to him using my troops as their pincushions.

What did Andie have to do with me?

To my knowledge I had never seen her before I freed her from the lab, I'm sure that I would remembered if I had.

I pulled out the picture of her and her family again, just to see if I knew any of them before this happened.

Her father didn't look familiar to me, but I was sure that I had seen her mother before.

And then like a ton of broken bricks it hit me...four years before I met and married my wife, my brother set me up on a blind date.

Marty told me that he met this gorgeous woman at the gym and thought she would be a perfect match for me.

She was going through a rough patch in her current relationship and was just looking to tests the waters before she decided whether or not to end it.

Long story short we went out a couple of times and had fun together, but in the end it didn't work out.

From what I can remember she ended it, because her and her partner at the time decided to try and make it work.

We said that we would remain friends, but that didn't happen.

I can't be for sure that it was her, but they look alike and even had the same exact scar over their right eyes; so it had to be her right?

"Hey, why don't we play a game to make the silence go away?" Melissa said finally breaking the silence and me away from my thoughts.

"What kind of game do you suggest?" Her brother asked less than enthusiastic about the idea.

"Never have I ever?" She replied softly.

"Are you asking us or telling us?" Steven asked with a light chuckle.

"Telling you...okay I'll go first." She thought for a moment. "Never have I ever...emotionally cheated on my partner." 

"What do we do if we have." Johnny asked nervously.

"Then just say 'I have' I guess." She answered surprised that her brother would do something like that and not tell her.

"I have then." He said nonchalantly.

"I have too, but in my defense my partner cheated on my first and actually had sex with someone else while I was just texting and confiding in someone else." Steve answered with a smile.

"I haven't." Amber said smugly.

"What about you being in love with your ex while being in a relationship with someone else?" Melissa asked skeptical of the other woman's intentions. "I would call that a form of emotional cheating...wouldn't you?"