Saint Girralo

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@Viciousmarrow@lovely complex@BlueAjah@Emma@The Muse

As James finished making his omelette, he hears movement. Zoey finally decided to grace them with her presence. And of course she didn't care what was in her omelette, so he slid his omelette out of the pan and onto a plate, and looked at her. "It's cheese, ham and green peppers, if you want it." he offered his younger sister. He wasn't happy that she was running late as bad as she was, but at least she was up and was still likely to get to school on time today. But he'd be furious if he heard that they had skipped school again. He cracked open three more eggs and put more ham, and cheese in as an alternative if she wouldn't eat the one with green pepper in it. He was half listening as he heard Kylie respond to his statement, ”Arrested? I bet Sophi was just out getting some dick. She’s like 30 or something, right? There’s no way she’s single and not a total slut.” "Not everyone is like you, Kylie. Besides Sophi is only twenty one, you know three years older than you, or did you drop out before you got to simple math." James poked, half out of irritation, half jokingly.

A few seconds after he said that, he felt his phone go off in his pocket. It was from Nathan, "Good morning, Princess. Thanks again for leaving me alone with two beautiful girls. So I had a very... interesting night. If you aren't too busy, meet up with me after my class?" James felt his face grow bright as Nathan called him Princess again. He was about to respond when he finally got a text back from Sophi who decided to send them into a mini panic by not saying anything about going out, “I slept over Elliot’s. I’m good!” He felt himself half breathe a sigh of relief at the revelation that she was okay. "She's fine, she went over to Elliot's." Then Kylie was coming back in with the mail, exclaiming something about getting ten thousand dollars, but then finding out that's how much she owes. He was so close to yelling at Kylie, for having Zoey and Olivia skip school the other day, then getting them high and getting into a fight with Riley. And now she owes the IRS money? Wait hold up... "Hold on a minute there. How do you owe the IRS anything? You can only get money from them, or owe them money if you earned money, as in had a job, but that's not something that happened to my knowledge. So how do you even owe them money?"

He wasn't going to wait for an answer right away, but instead turned to Riley who asked if he could be late. James started nodding, "Yeah, find her a job that we can monitor, and get in when you can." Pulling his phone back out, he pulled up Sophi's text thread, "Apparently Kylie owes the IRS money, and Riley is going to help her find a job, so go straight to the Diner if you can. I'll drive the car over there myself." She wouldn't be happy about it, but she'd understand. "Oh and Kylie? Remember yesterday when you had issues at the diner. Consider that incentive to find a job you like. If you don't, you will work at the diner under my supervision. And I want to see the tax form you filled out, tonight. Something tells me you might have filled it out wrong, and if that's the case, perhaps you don't actually owe that much." He scowled as his younger sister was causing even more trouble for the family. Fortunately he didn't have time to focus on his anger as his stomach reminded him he still had to eat. The last omelette was finished, and he slid it onto a plate and set it on the table at his seat. He began eating a little more quickly than usual, but he had to go and unlock the diner and work today, and he was already behind where he wanted to be.

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I'll have a James/Jess post up late tonight/early tomorrow

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I hope Claire has some pepper spray. Ash might give her some if she ever catches up with Claire and finds out about this. One of the good things about paranoia is that you tend to be prepared. Though her pepper spray wasnt exactly intended to be used on Wes.

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@BlueAjah@lovely complex@Emma@The Muse@Viciousmarrow

James was reading through the story online when Kylie made her way down. She took one look at what he was making and immediately went to the fridge and pulled out Chinese and a Mountain Dew. James rolled his eyes as she popped the Sesame Chicken into the microwave and heated it up. "Where's Sophia? Did she go on a jog or something? 'Cause she's not in her room or in the shower..." " Don't know, probably. Sophi's right you know, you shouldn't be drinking that at breakfast." James scoffed, but made no move to stop her. As he pulls the first batch of bacon off the stove he gets a text from Ollie, 'Small omelet with peppers, and tomatoes. Please and thank you.' He cracks two eggs and pours them into the pan and then puts some cut up green peppers and diced tomatoes in before turning the stove on underneath the pan. "It is unusual for her to be out before all of us are up." He replied to Kylie as he put some more bacon on the stove.

Just as he finished up Olivia's omelette, she walks into the kitchen and hugs him from behind, which makes him smile. "Hey, how are you?" He asks as she begins pulling out some plates. "Thanks, you're omelette is almost done. He tells her as he folds it in half. As he sets it in front of Olivia's seat, Riley walks in. "Just make me whatever." James heard and he nodded as he cracked open three eggs for Riley and pulled aside some ham, green peppers and cheese. "I think Sophi drank a bit last night, pure assumptions, mind you, but yeah, yesterday was a pretty shitty day. Eh, if you're of age, go hard or go home, am I right?" James glanced over, now starting to get a bit concerned. " Either way, have any of you seen her? She usually tells us if she has somewhere to be." James picked up his phone and pulled up Sophi's text thread. 'Where are you Sophi? Riley says he thinks you were drinking last night? Are you okay?' He hit send and went back to Riley's omelette on the stove.

"I just sent her another text. I swear if she got herself arrested last night after the we got a warning from the neighbor to behave, she's going to get an earful." James was clearly nervous now. Where was Sophi? Where was Zoey? She needs to get up or she will be late for school. Opening up the text thread for Zoey, 'Hey! Get up! What do you want in your omelette?' When Riley's Omelette finished up he pulled it off and set the plate in front of Riley's seat and pulled the law of the bacon off the stove, setting the entire plate on the table. Since Zoey wasn't responding yet, nor coming downstairs, he began making his omelette, adding ham, cheese and green peppers in with the three eggs.

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Ashley had just woken up, the taste of pizza in her mouth from the night before. She was in her room for a change, which had her on edge. Had she made it back there herself or did someone pull her away from Frank? She grabbed her keys and rushed all the way downstairs to a steel door, and put one of the keys in the door and unlocked it. She slide inside and closed it behind her quickly before flicking on the lights. There he was, still intact and turned off. She quickly made toward a lockbox on the wall and quickly retrieved a key from inside. She slide the key into one of two slots on the desktop console and flipped through her key ring for the second key and turned both simultaneously before hitting the power button. Immediately all three screens clicked on and began loading up the modified version of Windows Ten, set to use the Windows Seven setup. She placed her right thumb on the fingerprint scanner, placed her eye near the retinal scanner, and typed in her password. When it let her in she immediately she began performing a systems check. After five minutes when everything checked out, she breathed a sigh of relief. She shut down Frank and began setting the room back how it was, key in the lock box, key back on her key ring, light off, door locked. Of course she had gotten back to her room on her own last night. The alarm wasn't tripped, and everything was as it should be.

Heading back upstairs, she went to the kitchen to eat breakfast. She pulled a bowl out of the upper cabinet and grabbed a spoon and set both on the table near her laptop. From the lower cabinet she grabbed one of her favourite cereals, Raisin Bran Crunch, and retrieved the milk from the fridge. As soon as she set them down, and sat down, she opened her laptop off to the side. As she poured her cereal into the bowl, she opened up some websites to post a vacancy in her house that could be filled. 'Looking for up to three or four housemates, two bedrooms open, two bathrooms, a Laundry room, Dishwasher, finished basement. Medium sized backyard. Cat and dog friendly Rent: $800/month per person (willing to work with you). Must get along with each other. My personal office and my room are the only places off limits. '

As soon as she finished up her bowl, she rinsed it up and put it in the dishwasher. Since it was just herself for now, she only needed to run it twice a week at most. She went into the bathroom and brushed her hair and teeth and put on some light makeup. She was planning on heading into town and finding a job. It would help when everything inevitably comes crashing down around her. But that was also the reason she needed Frank well protected, that was the other reason she wanted housemates. When she deemed herself presentable, she got her shoes on and disabled the alarm and rearmed it real quick so she could leave. As she climbed into her red 2011 Ford Fusion, she set her purse on the passenger seat. As she left the driveway, she knew somehow, for better or for worse, today would be an interesting day.

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Poor Jerry. Always there when the shit hits the fan.

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@BlueAjah So you're adopting Zoey Reese?

@lovely complex It could be a false lead. I do intend on giving Ashley a major Arc with Jerry though.

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Now, who can guess AAA's secret, that would be the secret of my new character who I'll work on an intro for later, named Ashley Annabelle Andrews?

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Ashley Annabelle Andrews

Name: Ashley Annabelle Andrews
Age: 23
Birthday: January 23, 1993
Appearance:
5'7"
115 lbs
Scar on Right Shoulder
Occupation: Seeking Employment
Education: Bachelors degree ITT Tech Computer Science, emphasis on Coding and Computer Forensics.
Position: Outskirts
Secret: It's something for me to know and you to never find out.
Personality: Ashley is a normally quiet girl, but if you ask her about her computer she opens right up and is all smiles. She will talk to you like you just became her best friend and she'll tell you everything you need to know about them. She is intelligent but she tries to be modest. She is not without her quirks though, and is very distrustful of people, even friends, especially when it comes to her computer's software , so much so that there are security measures in place to protect "Frank." So many that it borders paranoia.

Bio: Ashley moved to Millington last year, and before that she grew up and worked back East. An incident back East is the reason she moved out to the town of Millington. She claimed to want to get away from the memories, and to get a new start. As a small side job to have some income, she works on computers, fixing and upgrading laptops, though her best work, a full computer which she calls "Frankenstein's Monster", is the result of a mad genius and is her most prized possession. It's capabilities, in terms of conventional use, is nothing short of overkill. She doesn't say much about what it is for, but she says it works miracles and is perhaps the world's smallest supercomputer, though many consider it to be just a hoax or an exaggeration.

The house she lives in, in the Outskirts, is a great size... For four people, but she lives in the house alone at the moment. It had solar panels installed when she moved in, but what makes it strange are the miniature wind turbines that she had installed to further reduce the strain on the energy bill. It was modified by request with a contractor making a safe room in the basement.

Frankenstein's Monster (Frank): This monstrosity of a computer is probably the most powerful computer on the planet in civilian hands, or at the very least, one of them. This custom Desktop computer has 36 Terabytes of memory, 352 Gigabytes of RAM, 6 x GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Video cards and has ten Intel Core i7-6700K processors and is liquid cooled to keep it from overheating when active, and all that, with the exception of the cooling system, is completely enclosed within a customised casing. But what's even more frightening than the hardware to run it, is the safety measures built into it to protect the software. First it is behind a steel door with a deadbolt lock. It is in an interior room in the basement lined with inch thick steel on all sides and two air vents one letting stale air out and the other letting fresh air in. In order to even turn the machine on, it requires two keys, one kept in a lockbox in the room, the other on Ashley's person at all times, even in the shower. In order to log in it takes a fingerprint scan, a retinal scan and a password and even at that point the files are not only password protected, but also encoded in such a way that it appears that the devil himself overhauled Enigma.

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Compared to the other Reese's James/Jess had a pretty good day one.

The Age of Iron

The alchemy, describe what you have in mind there