sometimes the locals triop me up and used the name of the freeway instead . the san diego . the pasada . i haven't figured out why they do that . any hoo , i am on the 10 somewhere in the vast suburban wasteland between opomona and LA . i can already see glow of the big city on the horizon ."
sam blew through his entire speech without an audible inhale . i was pretty sure he had topped off his personal tank with a few cups of nasty truck stop coffe to wash down his sublime truck stop patty melt .
before i had a chance to tell him why i was calling , he started up again ." you make a decision whether i'm going to be allowed to bunk with you in merideth palace ? i should be in your general vicinity before too long . be nice to know where i'm sleeping ,m my butt is like , numb."
sam was still listening to contemporary country on the radio . the volume was still loud . i still didn't like it . i paused to be certain he was done before i said ," have an emergency here , sam . need to run something serious by you ."
"okay ." his tone lost all its playfuless .
something's going on with all these people . the grand canyon people . eric showed up in town . i don't think merideth knows he's here . and there's a police emergency at the place where mel lives with her friends."
"what kind of emergency ? what kind of serious ?"
i explained to sam what i knew about the events taking place at the duplex , starting wioth the fact that the two girls had stopped by merideth's condo so i could finally have a chance to talk to mel , i stressed the part about the live TV coverage , the hovering helicopters , the apparently determined SWAT response , and the possibility of dual explosion s.
i added ,"i'm on my way there now . the girls are in amy's car heading home -i'm following them . or i was ..... i couldn't keepyou know anyone in the LAPD ? can you find out what's going on? it's a big deal , sam ."
sam blew through his entire speech without an audible inhale . i was pretty sure he had topped off his personal tank with a few cups of nasty truck stop coffe to wash down his sublime truck stop patty melt .
before i had a chance to tell him why i was calling , he started up again ." you make a decision whether i'm going to be allowed to bunk with you in merideth palace ? i should be in your general vicinity before too long . be nice to know where i'm sleeping ,m my butt is like , numb."
sam was still listening to contemporary country on the radio . the volume was still loud . i still didn't like it . i paused to be certain he was done before i said ," have an emergency here , sam . need to run something serious by you ."
"okay ." his tone lost all its playfuless .
something's going on with all these people . the grand canyon people . eric showed up in town . i don't think merideth knows he's here . and there's a police emergency at the place where mel lives with her friends."
"what kind of emergency ? what kind of serious ?"
i explained to sam what i knew about the events taking place at the duplex , starting wioth the fact that the two girls had stopped by merideth's condo so i could finally have a chance to talk to mel , i stressed the part about the live TV coverage , the hovering helicopters , the apparently determined SWAT response , and the possibility of dual explosion s.
i added ,"i'm on my way there now . the girls are in amy's car heading home -i'm following them . or i was ..... i couldn't keepyou know anyone in the LAPD ? can you find out what's going on? it's a big deal , sam ."
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