For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Dan, the single guy, was visibly shaken by what has happened. Seems everyone else out here had been part of this plot to either question our sanity, or hit us with kidnapping. Either way would finish any chance of continuing as a PI, even if we could eventually prove we were innocent. It will be interesting to see what happens when those kids get back to Australia. I left the others in the lobby while the cats and I went outside. “What do you two think about all this?”, I ask the cats. Meow,meow.=Not know what to think, this bad, we in big trouble. Meow.=Yep, very confusing. Not sure about human Dan, he seem real, but also hide something. Meow,meow=Yep, me agree, we need to leave island fast.
“But leaving might make us look guilty if we are hit with kidnapping charges,” I said, “I’m calling Baldwin, see what he thinks.” I got hold of him and told him more of what is going on. Suddenly a shot! The phone flew out of my hand, blasted to pieces. Tom came running out and got me back inside while the cats took off in the direction of the shot. Good thing they had a good medical kit at this hotel. I’m also glad I was holding the phone in my left hand this time. I won’t be using that hand for a while, that would have been bad if it was my right hand. I asked Tom to call Baldwin. Unfortunately he left his phone on the helicopter. So Lena called him.
He was wondering what happened to our first call. He found out that all the people here at the hotel, including the kids, were part of an acting group that had been hired by Jimmy. Only Dan was not part of that and his story checks out okay, so he’s just a regular tourist like us. Baldwin said he would send a boat to pick us up. But I told him I would be staying to find out who is behind this, otherwise they will continue to hunt us. Lena and Tom both said they would stay with me, so Baldwin said he would send 4 more men to help out and take Dan back to safety. Just then there were several shots! We all fell to the ground.
I was going to fire back but remembered the cats were over there somewhere. I watched carefully, then I heard the familiar “Thwock!” I got up to go over there but a voice behind me said, “Don’t move”. Then another “Thwock!” I turned and a man lay on the ground by the hotel porch. Muffin came running over. Meow,meow!=I use rubber muffin, so he can talk. “Good girl Muffin,” I said. Then Mr. Cat came running over. Meow!=I get sniper man, but use steel ball by mistake, he done. “Good boy Mr. Cat,” I said, “don’t worry about using the steel ball, use it all the time now.”
Muffin had gone over to Lena and Tom who were still lying on the ground. I went back over there. Both had been shot but they are only wounded. “Only”, I thought to myself. There’s no doctor here. Then I noticed the blood on my leg, I had been shot too. That sniper could have killed us all easily, but he didn’t want to, he just wanted to slow us down. Why? Meanwhile back home…”What happened Baldwin?”, asked Calanthe. “There was shooting, then I lost contact again,” he told her. He got another helicopter in the air immediately with 4 men and medical supplies. One of the men was a doctor. But of course we didn’t know this.
Baldwin was very concerned by this time. So am I. Dan came out now and helped me carry Lena and Tom inside. We used the suite on the main floor and just as we got Tom on a bed, the electricity went off. Great, what else can happen? Dan went back to the lobby to get the medical kit and he came running and yelling, “Fire!” He was right, the fire was big and spreading fast. We carried Lena back outside and close to the beach. The cats stayed with her while we went back for Tom. We’re safe from the fire, but easy targets for anyone wanting to shoot us. Then I noticed the man Muffin had knocked out was gone. Someone is forcing us to do what they want, and I don’t like that.
To Be Continued.
Β©2021 Steve McLeod.
These people are serious about making your lives miserable. They are playing games and toying with you. They want you to think you are hopeless but you are not without hope.
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They’re playing games with the wrong people! Especially on my honeymoon! I just hope that chopper gets here quick, no way I can operate on Lena and Tom. But who is behind all this? And why?
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More intrigue ! If the cats are leery about Dan I would be careful around him…π΅οΈββοΈπ©π€πΎπΎ
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That’s very true, I don’t really trust him much, but at the moment I have no choice until Baldwin’s men arrive.π€π©πΎπΎπ΅οΈββοΈπ΅οΈββοΈ
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Beautiful nature photo and well written article ππ·π here Rainy day βοΈ
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Oh my, more rain for you. Cloudy here, but no rain. Thank you so very much!ππΊββπ
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You are welcome π
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If you posted this yesterday… I wonder why It didn’t come through to my phone until this morning? I was looking and checking and refreshing the app all afternoon and evening…π€π€π¬
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Yep, I posted it yesterday afternoon, around 2 I think it was. Did you get the other 2 posts? I was wondering what happened to you yesterday.π€
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I didn’t get new post yesterday at all. They all came through this morning. Like I said I kept checking and refreshing my phone app and nothing… I figured you were either busy or not well…
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I will always post something every day, even if it’s just to say I can’t for some reason. Probably WP was having problems again. Sigh.ππ
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I’ll remember that.. πππ
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Me too. Oops, phone call, talk a bit later.π
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Okie Dokie!!ππ
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Still here, not sure how long though.
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No worries!π I was supposed to take the kids out on the lake today but the ditched me… teenagers are very unpredictable with their planning.
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That’s teenagers for you, one minute they want to do something, the next minute they don’t want to do anything. At least I think so, but it’s been a long time so it’s hard to remember that part.π€π
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That’s pretty darn close to righr on the money!!πππ€£π€£π€£
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My memory is improving!π What were we talking about?π€π³
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Teenagers..
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Now I remember! I knew it would come to me!π
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Yep just like a migraine headache π«ππππ
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Do I have one of those too?π²π²
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If you don’t.. you can have mine!!??ππ
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Hmm, does a sore neck count?π€
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Ohhhh most definitely!!π€π€
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Oh good, I wouldn’t want that pain to go to waste.π¬π¬
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Yes no kidding… if you have to feel it then it better not go to waste!
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Why didn’t I think of that?π€π¬
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I don’t know!π¬π¬π€π€ππ Is that bad?π¬π¬
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Well, that depends how someone thinks about it. Um, yep, guess it is.π€―π€―
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Oh noπ
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Oh no? Oh no? Don’t say that! What happened?
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I don’t know… you said it! Didn’t you??π³
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You expect me to remember something?
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Not reallyππ but it’s better it’s you and not me!πππ
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Thanks Dusty!π
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Anytime!! You are Welcome!π€ͺπ€ͺπππ
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I just don’t know how others could get them but not me! Im losing faith in this phone and Att network.
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I heard someone else say recently they were having trouble with AT&T. Kind of like me and Bell. I would switch but the only other one available is quite expensive.π³
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Yeah, I’ve got another carrier lined up… but I need to pay this one off 1st then I can keep this and just switch carrirers
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Now that’s thinking if I ever saw thinking then that’s thinking I think!π΅π΅
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I meant payoff this phone and keep it I must still be vacation mode in my brain πππ
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And here I thought it was my brain that was on vacation.π€π
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Wishful thinking??π€π€
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Yep, my brain wishes it could think.π
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Not mine! Tired of thinking… just wants to exist for a little while!ππ
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Good shrinking! I’m back, did you miss me?π€
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Yes??ππ I mean yes! Most definitely!! Where were you?
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Um, uh, um, rats, I forgot again.π³π
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Yep! It’s no fun to have people orchestrating things so you don’t have any good choices to choose from.πππππ
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That is so true. I’m just hoping that chopper gets here soon and can take Lena, Tom and Dan out of here. I just hope Lena makes it.π³π©πΎπΎπ΅οΈββοΈπ΅οΈββοΈ
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Yes!! Of course! Are you sure a helicopter is the safest way??π€π€π€π¬π¬ they easy to sabotage!!
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That’s true, but it would take too long to get a boat out here, the helicopter is the fastest way and that’s important right now. We just have to make sure it can land and leave safely, that’s the hardest part.π³ππ πΎπΎ
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I will be anxiously waiting to see how it turns out!!π¬π¬π¬π¬π€π€ππππ
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Hmm, wrong number,π my brother is supposed to be phoning soon though.
Yes, I am too!π¬ππ
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Nice!π
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The bad guys don’t know who they’re messing with! They’ll find out soon enough? πΎπ€¨π βοΈβοΈππ§―
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Yes indeed, they have gone too far now. I just hope that chopper gets here soon to take Lena and Tom out, and Dan too perhaps, though I don’t really trust him so it might be better to keep him here.π€π©πΎπΎπ΅οΈββοΈπ΅οΈββοΈπ
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This is very bad! People playing games but they donβt think twice before shooting πΎπΎππ
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Yes, it is a very strange situation indeed. But can we get Lena and Tom out of here safely while there is still time, they are wounded badly. I still don’t know what is really going on either!π€π©πΎπΎπ΅οΈββοΈπ΅οΈββοΈ
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Oh My
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Laughter; After a thousand years still your best entertainment value
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Ohoh lot of hurting and shooting people π§ Glad Baldwin is there to help.
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Yes, me too!π¬πππ΅οΈββοΈ
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