Traffic

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Red lights, green lights. Driving down the empty streets, Carlos and Tony were debating the merit of having the lights working all night.

“Not true”, said Carlos, “that’s because people here don’t know how to drive. You take some poor bastard from god knows where, who’s never seen a car before, and you expect him…”

“Whoa, hold it right there!” Tony interrupted, “that’s exactly why I’m thinking that they are more careful, they are adjusting to a new situation…”

“Well, sometimes they are too careful. They don’t know what to do.”

“Agree, but on the flip side, you have…”

At that point a silverfish sedan, coming towards them, turned sharp left just in front of their van, forcing Carlos, who was driving, to step on the brake.

“Fucking… now that’s what I’m telling you here. They just don’t…”

“Wait, Carlos… well I’ll be… turn left! Hurry!”

Carlos jerked the steering wheel left, without checking any of the mirrors, naturally. “Why, you want to chase the guy now? You saw my point all of the sudden?”

“No, moron, that was Gina’s car. We haven’t been able to isolate her anywhere, last what, month and the half, and here she is, perfect. Let’s do it before its too late again.”

Carlos accelerated, backing himself further into his seat. “We’ll get her at the park.” His eyes gave a feverish spark.

“Look, she’s stopping… hell its big jim’s place… wait here, let’s see, maybe she’ll be out soon…”

After few minutes, they saw Gina getting back into her car, turning right and leaving in the hurry.

“That’s not the way to her home”, Tony said. “What the hell is going on? Let’s follow her, maybe she’s meeting someone…”

Ten blocks later, they learned that Tony was right. No argument there, Tony was usually right. But, who she was meeting with blew their mind.

“She’s got it. And now she knows it.” Carlos said.

“But now WE don’t know is it at her place, or with her.”, Tony elaborated further. “We’ll wait till the morning, she’ll be going to see George first thing. Before that happens, we need to get it, witnesses or no.”

-- Leaving the Bryden’s, pale as a ghost, the first thing Gina had in her mind was how to get home as soon as possible. Then, about what she had just heard about Genesis.. “How did I buy that story after all”, she cursed herself… “All that security, double-checking, for a stupid marketing spin on a new book?” Now that she knew what the real purpose for the code she had is, she was trembling in the anticipation of the moment in the morning when she will have to face George, end tell him she’s out.

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