She had been regular about putting thingsin the same place he noticed. Whether that was a habit from when she wasJames or just something she did when ...she was living overseas he didn'tknow.He opened it, rooted around for a minute and found her keys. The sparekeys to the garage and the locks he had used on the trailer were in abox in his junk drawer. He found the ones he needed and slipped them onher keychain along with a set of house keys. He had just finishedputting them back when he heard her. She shut the door and fastened her seatbelt.“Thanks,” she said quietly, looking forward and clutching her backpack in her lap. The light changed and I started off. I glanced at her briefly. She certainly looked better than the last time I had seen her – less drowned. “I didn’t think to ask your name last time,” I said with a smile. She looked at me for a long moment and then looked forward again.“Leslie,” she said simply. I nodded as if this told me something more profound than just how to. ’ Simon said as he stood up all be it a bit slow, he did just crash from the bridge where he was. ‘Are you ready to fight?’ Yuki asked Simon. ‘Yes I am even though it feels like I went 20 rounds with the Hulk, my first priority is getting these people to a safe place away from this war.’ Simon replied back to Yuki’s question. ‘Do any of you have your phone with you?’ Simon repeated his question keeping himself calm. ‘Hear but how will that get us out of here?’ Laura asked. Passing Simon her. ’ ‘Oh,’ I said. And then after a while I said: ‘Are you sure that she didn’t mean Brian? Are you sure that it wasn’t Brian’s number that she wanted?’ Eloise laughed. ‘No. She had some … well … not very nice things to say about Brian. It seems he may have misread her intentions slightly.’ I nodded. ‘He does sometimes rush in where angels fear to tread.’ Eloise laughed again. ‘So, what do you want to know?’ ‘Well, for a start, how do you come to know each other?’ ‘We met at Cambridge.’.
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