Chapter 3 - The Meeting

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I woke up the next day after my night out with Olivia. Thankfully I didn't have a hangover, I actually felt rather refreshed to tell the truth. Olivia on the other hand was in a very bad way. I jumped out of my bed and went down stairs and into the kitchen. I turned the Percolator on and emptied a sachet of fresh ground coffee into it. I leaned back against the cold marble countertop and ran my hands through my hair trying to piece together what went on last night. 
Maybe I was drugged? I thought to myself also thinking how unlikely that would be as I would be feeling it today but I feel fine.
I am 150% certain that I talked to Olivia last night with this 'Ste' guy. As weird as it is I'm just going to have to let it go as I can't piece any of it together.
As I waited for the coffee pot to fill up I picked up the remote control for the television in the kitchen and turned it on.
Obviously at 11:00a.m. it's normal for nothing but childrens programmes and pointless gossip talk shows to be on. While I was flicking through chanels The News caught my attention.

"89 peoples lives were saved this morning from a residential building which caught on fire in 32 North 10th Street at the early hour of 8:10a.m this morning. The victims were brought to safety by none other than our beloved heroes "Achaici de Animus" leaving none harmed. The attack is under investigation by the Heroes and the NYPD updates are soon to come." 

Destiny, Creed, L'Ange de la paix and Unknown seem to always be kept busy. A clip flashed up of the four heroes flying down to safety with civilians in hand with a burning building in the background. Hearing the name "Achaici de Animus" was frequent for me as Olivia always talks about them but I never stopped to ask what it actually meant so i took out my phone and typed it in to Google to find that they called themselves "Achaici de Animus" as it was Latin for "League of Animus" Animus is apparently a word with many meanings such as the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, the breath, life, soul, judgment etc..
So basically they couldn't think of a name so they all agreed on one word which has 8753495 different meanings... Interesting.

After my learning segment of the day I poured two cups of coffee and headed up to Olivia who was sprawled out on her bed.
"Olivia... Olivia.. Olivia wake up... Olivia.. OLIVIA!?"
"WHAT DON'T HURT ME, DANIELS NEXT DOOR HE HASN'T GOT AS MUCH TO LIVE FOR AS I DO, GET HIM!" Olivia said, half asleep, absolutely terrified.
"Nice one Olivia, Nice one." 
"Sorry... I panicked" Olivia said grabbing her pillow and suffocating herself with it.
"Sit up I made you Coffee" I said with the cup of coffee hovering over her almost concious body.
Olivia slowly but surely sat up and took the coffee from me and I jumped into her double bed beside her. "Move up!" I squealed.
Olivia took a sip of coffee and covered her eyes with her free hand.
"The room is spinning, make it stop" Olivia said muffled into her cup.
We both looked over to her phone which just buzzed. Swear to god we didn't shit ourselves.
"It's.. MICHELLE!" Olivia stated in a humourous deep voice causing us to both chuckle. Michelle was the manager of the Café/Bakery we worked in, She's nice but still not the type of person you want to hear from at 11:37 in the morning.
"Hi Liv, ADA (Achaici de Animus) recoved stolen money from Bites(Café) This morning. I Have a meeting with them at 2p.m today so I'm shutting Bites up for today so you don't have to come in for work. However I would like you and Dan to come in for when they come if that is alright with you two? Let me know anyway. - M" 

"OH MY GOD" Olivia said while sort of bop-dancing in her bed spilling coffee all over her crisp white sheets. "I am going to die" 
"Calm down Liv, you sheets are turning brown with that coffee." I said snatching the coffee out of her hand and placing it on her bedside table.
"I can't like I am in so much pain right now but I couldn't care less, I AM GOING TO MEET THEM." Olivia said throwing herself back onto her pillow. 
"You're actually sort of lucky what happened, happened because now you get to meet them and you have no work!" I told her nudging her with my elbow.
"I would have had work in 15 minutes, I still have a wonky eyelash stuck to my chin. I doubt that would have happened even if Michelle told me I had to come in" Olivia joked. I rolled my eyes and laughed. Olivia quickly text back "Perfect! We'll see you then! -Liv" 
I looked over her shoulder at the text. 
"WE? I'm not going to that meeting?!" I said standing up and walking towards the door.
"WHAT? OH MY GOD you HAVE to! One, because you have to drive me and Two, Because I'm pretty sure the new cutie you had a little Moment, shall we say will be there" She said winking and putting on a cringy posh English accent.
"So?" I said, very sassy. I'm a sassy kind of guy okay. You love it.
"Soooo... You can look at his muscular self and cream over him all you like and pour his coffee." She Teased.
"You're nasty" I said "Fine I'll go, I wouldn't miss you making a show of yourself in front of them for the world."
"Yes! Fab! Deal! whatever, We can go for dinner then afterwards. It'll be fab. Little cute date? How fa does that sound?"
"Eh.. Fab?" I joked.

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