"Alright. What was so damn important we rushed all the way here for?" Xaviers friends came in and sat around the living room where they got a good loo at him and were now a little taken back. "Damn! Whoa boss you good. You don't look.. ugh well human." Dylan asked him jumping back a step when he saw his face. "How can someone as dark as you look this white man. You need a hospital? Eh someone call Preston." Ryder called out quickly. "I'm fine. You lot of assholes. But thanks for the kind words man really." Xavier said waving them off.
"Seriously man what happened?" Nix asked as he came up taking a better look at him. "I saw Brently. I passed out last night in the living room and woke up like an hour ago in my bed. I need to know what the hell happened. Like I literally lost a whole day of my life here. What happened today?" Xavier asked looking around the room. "Well that explains why no one got ahold of you today." Ryder said rubbing his chin thinking for a minute. "Did you sleep the whole day?" Nix asked him. "Did you check your cameras if you went anywhere or if anyone came in?" Dylan added.
"Nothing on the cameras." "Did you check your phone?" Ace asked randomly. For Xavier to stare at him. "No. I don't even know where it is. It was on this tabled last night and now it's gone." Xavier added being confused. "Here I'll call it." Ryder told him as they waited for it to ring. "Do you hear that?" Dylan asked. "Barely." Nix said as they all got up to follow the noise. Walking closer to it they noticed it was all the way down into the basement. The basement was well organized and had boxes it an organized manner. Until they got to one of the dustiest boxes that looked like it has been sealed for years. "How did you get your phone in this box WITHOUT REMOVING any of the dust. I mean look man no finger marks or anything on it." Nix asked him.
Taring off the packing tape and opening it up he dug to the bottom and found his phone. Putting the box down on a table next to them he started searching through it. "Missed calls. Some texts. Emails for work." Xavier said getting a lost. "What about your gallery?" Ace asked out of nowhere. Opening it up he was shocked. "Wait. What the hell is this?" Xavier asked getting scared. Nix took the phone for the rest of them to see. "Dude the time stamp is from last night why is this looking like evening?" Ryder asked shocked at what they were looking at. "Where even is that?" Ace asked him. "It's the woods where Brently family cabin is this was where I started in my dream and the 3rd picture is his family cabin. Question is how the hell am I in that picture?" Xavier asked feeling the nausea flow through his stomach along with some fear.
"Dude aint no damn way you flew three hours and back to go frolic in the woods man. This shit is crazy." Ryder told him taking a step back. "No what's crazy is the fact his phone even go the damn GPS coordinates tagged in the thing. It says 3am. How can that picture looking like 4 o'clock." Ace asked him. "OK so let's get the questions in order first alright. Here is the list of problems first. One what made you pass out so hard you lost a whole damn day you can't even remember. Two) How did you get these pictures on your phone. Three how are you even in the pictures on your phone." Nix told him. "I don't know man I'm a little more curious on what else is in that damn box for his phone to be conveniently planted in it the way it was. Little to ominous no?" Dylan interrupted him for the rest of them to stare at the box.
Looking inside it was some of the files is company is working on. It is even some of the projects he rejected from Tilman group years past. "Why are these even here. They were kept in the archives from the office basement." Ace told them. "Welp better start reading there's got to be a reason that Brently is going this far to fuck with you man." Nix told him. Going through piece by piece of everything in it. They were all enraged and mad. "This little shit stain I SWEAR TO GOD!" Ryder hollered first. "How the hell didn't anyone notice this before?" Dylan asked them looking around the room. "After a handful of proposals I just stopped reading them and had them sent down to the pile of projects to be searched on I guess no one ever looked through them." Xavier told him running his hands down his face.
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Then There Was You
RomanceArabella Alderman was a Physical Therapist who was getting over loss and moving on with her life. Xavier Holden was a multibillionaire who was lonely and a work acholic who was always giving back to his community. What happened when they have a fate...
