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For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Misty managed to put some puzzle pieces together and figure out that this whole affair was a trap to get me, for whatever reason. She discovered that the Eloise we knew is actually a fake, the real Eloise is much smaller and is visiting her son in New York. We didn’t discover this before because Clarisse told us she had no brothers, only 2 sisters. Therefore it’s hard to find a brother when you are not looking for him.
We had no cause to believe they were lying to us. All that happened fit with what they told us, which makes sense now, they deliberately made this setup to fit with their stories. A good lesson for us. Misty put Nakedra in charge of security at our detention rooms, which are attached to the clinic. She told Nakedra that any time the door to Eloise’s room needed to be open, there must be 6 girls, two with guns out.
But they were not to kill Eloise, unless necessary, just stop her. Nakedra had already seen Dawn and her team, so she understood why Misty gave those orders. Everyone had gone back to bed now, except the clinic personnel and guards, plus Misty and Tracy. “Cassie should be up making donuts,” said Misty. “It’s 3am Misty,” said Tracy. “But I’m hungry,” said Misty, “are you not hungry?”
“Yes, I am,” she replied, “but I’ll just get a bowl of cereal, want some?” “Guess that will have to do,” said Misty, “being the Leader sure gives me an appetite.” “You are always hungry,” said Tracy giggling, “how come you never gain weight?” “EXERCISE!” exclaimed Misty just as Tracy was pouring cereal into the bowl. That startled her and she almost knocked the bowl onto the floor, but she caught it in time. However, the cereal went onto the floor.
“You spilled your cereal,” said Misty. “Actually, it was your cereal,” said Tracy, “I was getting it for you, remember?” Misty looked down on the floor and sighed. “My special cereal,” said Misty quietly. “There’s lots more,” said Tracy when she saw Misty picking it up off the floor, “it will be full of cat hair.” “What?” asked Misty, “This floor was cleaned yesterday, there should be no cat hair. I will give the person 5 demerits if I find any cat hair in my cereal.”
“There is always cat hair in here, we have lots of cats,” said Tracy, “got to expect it.” “Ugh, this is full of cat hair,” said Misty and she went to look at the list to see who cleaned the floor yesterday. She sat down again after getting more cereal, then she did something on her phone. “There, 5 demerits,” said Misty, then she continued eating. “Who was it?” asked Tracy. “Me.” said Misty sighing. Tracy laughed…loud and long.
Akila was checking Eloise’s computer, after breaking into it. “People use such easy passwords,” said Akila as she joined the girls for some cereal. “What was it?” asked Misty. “4FootHairball,” replied Akila. Misty ran out of the kitchen. “What’s wrong with her?” asked Akila. “Misty doesn’t do well with hairballs,” said Tracy. “Oh,” said Akila. Later, Misty took Kristina and went to talk with Clarisse.
“I am not talking to you,” said Clarisse, “so just go away. My boyfriend has your Steve by now and you will soon be working for him, or he will kill Steve.” “Your boyfriend Jacques will be disappointed,” said Misty, “Steve doesn’t cooperate that easily and neither do we. And your fake mother Eloise can’t help you either, she is also locked up here.” Clarisse had quite a surprised look on her face when she heard that.
“She is not my fake mother, she is my real mother,” said Clarisse, “and you better not have hurt her!” “I don’t think that’s possible,” said Misty rolling her eyes. It should be noted that Clarisse is also quite big at 5 foot 8 inches tall and 180 pounds. “If you hurt my mother I’ll break you in two!” yelled Clarisse. Before Kristina had a chance to do anything, Clarisse had picked up Misty and slammed her onto the floor!
Kristina then grabbed Clarisse and tossed her against the wall and Misty managed to press her emergency button which brought the guards into the room right away. Later… “You need to stay here,” said Samantha. “I can’t, I’m the Leader right now,” said Misty, “I’ll just sit quietly on a chair in the library.” “No, you will stay here,” said Samantha, “wake up Jennifer to take over.” “NO, I did that once,” said Misty, “she does not want to be disturbed for anything. I’m fine, really.”
Kristina helped her to the library and she sat on the most comfortable chair. “Tracy, show me a picture of Clarisse and her family please,” said Misty. So she did. “Now show me a picture of our Clarisse,” said Misty, “what do you see?” “Here’s a better picture of Clarisse,” said Tracy, “hey, she doesn’t look like our Clarisse at all.” “Right,” said Misty, “what happened to the real Clarisse? She must have been killed, check around for an unidentified dead woman from the last 2 months.”
“Got her Misty,” said Tracy, “5 weeks ago in Paris, and her mother too, so she didn’t go and visit her son.” “That means Thomas is involved too since he made the claim that his mother was visiting him,” said Misty, “and that would be after she died, which would be a little hard to do.” “But the brothers didn’t like each other,” said Tracy. “Thomas was having financial problems,” said Misty, “so if Jacques offered him some money, he would likely take it, just to say that his mom was visiting.”
“Good thought,” said Tracy. “Kristina,” said Misty. “Yes, what would you like?” asked Kristina. “I think maybe I should go to the clinic now,” she said, “um, I can’t move.” Kristina and Tracy were at her side very fast. Kristina picked her up and began to carry her to the clinic. “Hold it you two,” said Jennifer, “Kristina, why are you carrying Misty?” “May we talk about this later please?” asked Misty, “Um, I can’t move.”
Later at the clinic. “Misty, you should have stayed at the clinic,” said Jennifer, “you could have injured yourself even more.” “I’m tough,” said Misty trying to smile. “Uh huh,” said Jennifer, “now, rest and obey Samantha.” Even later. “Cristy, stop kissing me,” said Misty. “I kiss like Cristy?” I said. Misty opened one eye wide.
“Steve! You’re back!” shouted Misty and she wrapped her arms around me. Then there were 3 loud cracks and Misty screamed a bit with each one. “Hey, that feels a lot better now,” she said. Armed with our new information, I called Aari and told him it was time to put our new plan into action. I communicated with Kat the same thing. She and Aari will coordinate their pressure tactics…
To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
Jennifer had made Misty the Leader so that she could lie down and try to sleep for a while. It can be stressful as Leader 1, which Kat and Jennifer have now discovered. Cristy had gone to be also and Tracy replaced her at the computer since we like to have someone looking after our computer 24 hours a day.
Dawn and 3 other girls were staying with Eloise for protection, we don’t want anything to happen to Eloise since she is the one who hired us. Clarisse is with Kristina, Emerald and Brandy at a local hotel, also for her protection. Now, for some reason, Clarisse tried to get away from the girls at the hotel, late at night, but she was stopped by Kristina.
Clarisse is refusing to cooperate with the girls right now and won’t tell why she was trying to get away. “Jennifer?” asked Kristina. “No, this is Misty,” came the reply, “Jennifer made me Leader while she is sleeping. There was silence on the other end. “You still there Kristina?” asked Misty. “Um, yeah,” she said, “we have a problem, Clarisse tried to get away from us and now she won’t tell us why.”
“That’s interesting,” said Misty, “bring her back here and put her in our detention room for now, until Jennifer wakes up.” “Okay, we’re on our way,” said Kristina. “Hey, Dawn finally sent us some pictures of Eloise for our records,” said Tracy, “she had to sneak them since Eloise hates having her picture taken.” “Oooo, I love sneaky,” said Misty, “let me see the pictures.”
“You’re looking at them,” said a puzzled Tracy. “Is she hiding behind that, um, big, um, large, um, huge woman?” “Misty, that’s not nice,” said Tracy, “that is Eloise.” Misty stood there blinking at Tracy. “Don’t blink like that,” said Tracy, “it makes me dizzy.” “That is not Eloise,” said Misty, “Eloise is small, 5 foot 3 inches and 110 pounds.” “Misty, she’s 5 foot 10 inches tall and 280 pounds,” said Tracy, “she was here, remember?”
“I didn’t see her when she was here,” said Misty, “I would remember someone that big. Cristy did a full history of the family and showed me before she went to bed. Here, take a look. That is Eloise, and here is her husband that died suspiciously two years ago.” “He had a heart attack,” said Tracy, “Eloise told us, or, at least the big Eloise told us.” “The coroner said suspicious,” replied Misty, “and there is Clarisse’s two brothers.” “She has no brothers, she told us herself,” said Tracy, “she has two sisters.”
“She has no sisters, only two brothers,” continued Misty, “one is Thomas who lives in New York, and that is where Eloise is right now, visiting with him. The other is named Florian, but he didn’t like that name, so he uses his middle name which is Jacques. He lives just outside of Paris.” “They were taking Steve to see Jacques in Paris!” exclaimed Tracy. “Then it was a trap all along!” exclaimed Misty, “It had nothing to do with Marcel and Clarisse, they wanted Steve!
Akila, wake up and come to the library right away! Cynthia, wake up and come to the library right away!” “Hey, you can’t give orders Misty,” said Cynthia. “She can now,” said Tracy, “Jennifer made Misty the Leader.” “I’ll be there in two minutes!” yelled Cynthia. Akila was already in the library. “What’s up, besides us at this terrible hour?” asked Akila.
“We need you to check the fake Eloise’s computer, once Dawn brings it to us,” said Misty, “um, Dawn?” “Yes Misty,” said Dawn. “I want you to bring that fake Eloise to our detention center,” said Misty, “and bring her computer for Akila to check out.” “You say that so easily,” said Dawn, “are you sending help?” “Why?” asked Misty, “There are four of you and only one of her.” “She’s worth 8 of us easily,” said Dawn, “but we’ll be there, um, sometime.”
“That’s the way!” said Misty encouragingly. Sometime later Dawn called in. “Misty?” she asked. “Yep, I’m here Dawn, did you get that fake Eloise?” asked Misty cheerfully. “You’re too cheerful,” said Dawn, “as Leader you’re supposed to be serious, not cheerful. Anyway, we’re almost home, call Samantha and get her ready to receive casualties.” Then Misty hit the button. Code Red, Clinic Alert, Casualties!
That got everyone awake fast thinking we must be under attack. “How can there be casualties?” Samantha asked herself, “I didn’t know we were fighting right now.” Misty had 6 girls ready to take custody of the fake Eloise, but there wasn’t much fight left in her now. Suzette and Beryan were in the worst condition, with broken bones. Dawn and Amerie were mostly just covered with bruises and a bit swollen in places. “Misty, what happened?” asked Jennifer. Misty went to her and saluted.
“We picked up two enemies tonight Jennifer,” she said in a serious tone, “but there are injuries on our side.” “Misty, stop saluting me please,” said Jennifer sighing. “Oops, sorry, forgot,” said Misty. “Misty, you do not need to hit Code Red for something like that,” said Jennifer, “just call the clinic, that way it doesn’t wake up everyone. Remember I said not to disturb me?” “Um, yeah, I forgot, I guess,” said Misty.
“Now, what is going on?” asked Jennifer. “Misty got it all figured out Jennifer,” said Tracy smiling, “that big Eloise is a fake, it was all a trap to get Steve. Misty figured it out right away once she saw a picture of what we thought was the real Eloise, but she knew the woman was a fake because she had seen a picture of the real Eloise that Cristy had found earlier. And there’s more that she figured out too, she’s amazing!”
“Where did Misty go?” asked Jennifer. “Right here,” said Cristy, “she almost got away.” “Misty, come back here please,” said Jennifer. Misty zipped back and saluted. “Misty, you’re saluting again,” said Jennifer. She quickly put her hand down. “What else did you discover?” asked Jennifer. “Um, well, the real Eloise is small and visiting her son in New York and she is the sister of Toledo’s mother which makes Jacques the cousin of Toledo.
It was all a trap for Steve right from the beginning, nothing to do with Clarisse and Marcel. I think Clarisse works for this gang too, maybe also the mother. But there’s no evidence that Thomas is involved. Actually, Thomas and Jacques don’t like each other at all which is why Thomas moved to New York years ago. But Cristy did most of this work, not me, she deserves all the credit, not me, I only kinda put some pieces together that were kinda sitting around.
So, it’s really Cristy and Tracy that deserve the credit, not me. And, well, I’m sorry for waking everyone by declaring a Code Red.” “Actually Misty,” said Jennifer, “you deserve more credit than you usually get. And don’t worry about the Code Red, it isn’t easy being Leader 1, that’s why I needed some time off. Now, call Steve and tell him what you learned.”
So, she called me and now things are starting to make sense, but somehow I don’t think Jacques wants to kill me or he could have done that already. He must want me to do something for him. Do I play along? Or should we just head back home? Hmm, guess I should ask our Leader what she thinks.
Misty said to come back home and see if we can find out more information from Clarisse, or Eloise, or Eloise’s computer before doing anything else. That does make good sense, so, for now we are on our way home. But the Black Wolves and Wildcats are going to stay in Paris a while longer, just in case…
To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
