The other room was her older sister, Lace’s room, and the surprise. Two fold surprise actually, the first was that the usual bare wooden walls were ...raped in large velvet rugs, her usual grass-beaten bed was now replaced by a multitude of black silken fabric piled on top of each other, in fact her whole room looked like it had been refurnished by a carpet spewing cow. The second was that pressed against a particularly tall pile of purple rugs was her sister, legs spread wide and fast asleep. “You can simply call me ‘Sam’, I shot back. “There’s no need to be formal with me.”She smiled and nodded her head, as I disappeared back into my office. I had two executive sales summary reports to complete and set about to data dump our individual sales dates by product line on to a computer spreadsheet. I added the summary feature, but when things didn’t add up, I let out an angry epithet.Olivia appeared in my office doorway.“Is everything OK?” she asked.“I hate these freaking spreadsheets,”. ’ I heard her mumble something so I just let it go at that. I climbed into bed and grabbed my book as my eyes began to lower. About 3:00 a.m., the phone on my nightstand rang as I turned to answer it. ‘Hello?’ I asked rather sleepily. ‘Maggie is that you?’ it was Chase. What a surprise. My eyes popped open at the sound of his voice. ‘Yeah it’s me,’ I whispered. ‘I need to talk to you, now. Do you think you could come down stairs? I’m outside,’ he said softly. ‘Sure I’ll be right down,’ I said. Jorge ordered whoever answered to bring a friend, and park close behind the car with the two men in it. No drugs, weapons, or loud music. Bring a book, he ordered, and suggested bibles or school books. He also warned them to expect the police to come and try to roust them. When that happened, they were to explain they were waiting for Jorge, and point out that the men parked ahead of them had been there longer than they were. If they were ordered to leave, they were to ask permission, politely,.