The virgin & the bad boy (Gravity)

Chapter 37/Don't go all cinderella on me

A/N We have some very good chapters for you this week. ( you could hardly tell it's the start of term not that we are busy or anything). 

Photo: George's dress. 

I was sitting in a leather seat in the hyper loop going to aunt Mallery's announcement ball at Jakartakota station. I was wearing the quite cool dress that Dante had bought me for that dinner a month or two ago. I was sitting with the meticulously made over Io.  Leo who was trying to get a last bit of rehearsal in.

"So what do you say if you see someone from college or that you know?" said Leo

"House it's hanging life form" said Io.

"No not like that, like this. Howz it hanging life form" said Leo with tone like a basket ball bouncing away over an empty court.

"Hoows mit hang-ing leaf form" said Io trying to copy Leo.

"That's better, keep that" said Leo. Io kept practicing.

"Hoows mit hang-ing leaf form,Hoows mit hang-ing leaf form"

At this point I felt the evening was going to go down in flames and Io was going to be barbecued on it.

"How will I know right boy friend when I meet him?" said Io to me. She had got the idea that she needed a boy friend, she had a script to get her started with someone. She was in essence far cuter than any girl honestly had a right to be so on the one had I didn't think she would have any problems once she had got to the kissing stage.

The hyper loop slowed down and Dante got on at the far end of the carriage. He sat down while the train pulled one gee acceleration to get up to speed. While I looked at him and I  tried to answer the question.

"You'll suspect when you see them, you'll know when you talk to them. Its' like there is a black space in your heart when there not there. Everyone will tell you your insane, they will say will all end in flames that your young, stupid and reckless, but some how you will know, you just click and everything will be alright"

"You don't click?" Io said.

"I haven't found someone to click with" I said. "call me a romantic but he's out there."

"You're a romantic" said Io.

I looked at her charcoal eyes. "You told me to" said Io in her defence.

We had after great deal of work managed to get Io off her dominatrix look and I had managed to find something suitable for both of them to wear. Something which said 'gorgeous' or in George's case 'Georgeous'

The train had got up to travelling at 800 miles per hour and Dante walked down the corridor between the chairs to where we were sitting.

"Life form" said Dante to the crew.

"Howz it hanging life form?" said Io.

"Looking good Io" said Dante. 

"Yes Io can see things far away and close up, always in focus, all colors but no infrared " said Io.

Before Dante could answer the train slowed down. I had texted George from my ring she was meeting us in Saudi Arabia so she could get changed and not 'walk around in public'. She had down loaded a make over app for her robot. I wished I could have seen the faces of the people where ever she changed. Boy walks in girl walks out, a real cinderella moment. Except cinderella wasn't a boy and the three fairies was now one robot. Talk about machines putting people out of work. 

Leo looked out of the windows at the platform.

"I though George was getting on here?" said Leo looking out for her.

"She is" said Dante looking as George came down the aisle dressed in white.

"Wow" I said.

I had taken George and Io ball dress shopping and found something long and in George's case white. I could see why Leo didn't recognise her. Her blonde hair really shone and she looked stunning. She came down the aisle and sat down with us. You could almost hear Leo's eye's rolling.

"You're looking cool. George." said Dante.

"Yeh you look great, Smith doesn't stand a chance" I said.

The doors shut and you could feel the acceleration kick in as the train accelerated for the under sea trip in a tube at the bottom of the ocean to Indonesia.

"Who are you?" said Io to George.

"It's George" I said.

"George from school? Howz it hanging life form?" said Io.

Leo looked shocked like someone had told him Robert Smith had broken up.

"You look like an idiot, what on earth made you dress like that?" said Leo. "You look like you want to be stuck at the top of some Christmas tree"

I could see George was nervous and would either burst into tears or pull out a AK47 and kill everyone on the train in a glorious aria of bullets, cordite, blood, tears and rage.

"Hey enough of the pit-stop. We are thinking positive vibes for her" I said. "Look we have a plan for tonight guys. 9:00 We line up George with Smith in the old ticket office near platform 8. It's only got one entrance and exit I've checked. Dante if you see any girl except for George making for Smith you run interference and take them down lion kill style."

George seemed better now we had got on to the subject of Smith nabbing.

"Got it, Pyjamas" said Dante.

I had approached Leo to do that, but he had got oddly moody and refused to do it. I guess Leo didn't like his best Halo buddy being nabbed by Smith.

I continued to Leo "9:30 Leo you line Io and sweep the south side of the dance floor for every eligible boy you can find. If Io comes back and her tonsils aren't raw, I'm coming for you."

Leo had been more up for teaching Io to date boys although teaching a bear to juggle while reading the news would have been simpler if at a greater cost in raw salmon.

"Well I'm loaded" said Leo.

"If she meets a nice boy platform twelve will be quite, but there are guards here , here and here." I said pointing to the map Dante's robot projected on the wall "they move at 15 minute intervals and leave a gap for one minute while changing. This lets you into a quite area. Once Io is in there she's on her own. Mean while I'm going after Esmeralda platform 10. She's and I are going to be on the entrance to the locked room mystery which is housed in the old managers office. Lucy is going to have some fake argument with Binks on the way there at 10:15. I'm going talk Binks up then introduce Binks to Esmeralda. Kentro is already there on the serving staff priming Esmeralda at the locked room mystery . If you need a drink spilled on anyone just let him know."

"Rodger, where do we meet up to split the loot?" said Leo.

"Who is Rodger?" said Io. 

"Dante's about 3:00 in the morning" I said randomly.

"Assuming people aren't busy with someone else" said Dante.

I looked at him.

"That is the objective of this heist isn't it?" said Dante.

I looked at Dante "Well technically it's for Aunt Mallory but you know.."

The train slowed down as it arrived efficiently into the station. Yeah everyone else was walking away with someone but me. "Stay in touch on your earrings and stuff guys. OK Its show time!".

"London Rules" said Dante as we got off.

"No Jakarta rules" I said.