Billy (Part Three)

I had agreed to the quote that Billy sent and he started work the following week to modify our home network to my specifications.  Billy came into our lives at just the right time to infiltrate our group --- I was very busy with the coins project and Eve was distracted by her garden.  We were too busy to rewire the house ourselves, so we hired out --- right place, right time for Billy.

I hadn’t noticed how much time he was working in my home office because I expected him to be there. After a few days I trusted him to work alone in the house.  He didn’t get flirty with Eve, so I expected that he was thoroughly professional --- even when she walked through the house in her under garments, forgetting that we had a guest --- Billy politely turned his head and walked the opposite way.  These simple actions allowed me to trust him, and because of this trust we gave him the freedom of the house to do his work.

After putting on some clothes, Eve came to me with a question. “Joseph, I was wearing a see through lace bra and panties and he didn’t even do a double take.  Am I losing my appeal?”  She asked in a serious tone.

At first I thought she was joking, but realized no one has ever not looked at her when she entered a room, undressed or otherwise.  “I’m sure he saw you, but politely turned his head because he is working for us.  That’s refreshing in this age --- gallantry may not dead after all.”

Eve gave me a quick kiss to the lips and left to visit Lori and Tommy.  She was invited to over to help decorate their new home and Eve loved to design and decorate.  I could hear Billy alone in the next room, running fiber optic cable between floors (we have a 110 year old, 2 story house with the old rough cut timber boards between floors – that makes it a little difficult to run cable because of the wood’s density).  I went to him and told him I would be going on some errands, so he should feel free to continue his work and grab anything he would like out of our refrigerator for a snack or to quench his thirst.  I waved goodbye and went out the garage door and left Billy to himself.

The young man quickly took advantage of the empty house.  He darted into Joseph’s home office the minute he heard the door slam shut.  Billy opened drawers and looked through as much information as he could --- almost as if he were competing in a game show to win prizes.  He neatly tucked files and objects back in their place and moved to the next area.  He came to a table with a microscope, some complicated looking devices and chemicals.  In the middle of all of this was a pile of about one-hundred ancient roman coins and a notebook with scribbles and annotations going every which way on the pages --- some were in English and other paragraphs were in what looked to be Latin and possibly Greek.  He sat down in the chair, careful not to move it from the position Joseph had last left it.  He found one page that had English paragraphs -- it said something about a meteor crashing to earth many years ago, and  it went on to describe the meteor as being alive.  A few pages later, Joseph wrote that the residue on the ancient coins had a similar “living” molecular structure that when touched could give the holder extraordinary power if they were changed by the first meteor mentioned.  Billy sat up from the book and stared at nothing for a moment, then laughed to himself --- he thought of how weird this all was sounding.  He looked down and took one of the coins from the pile that had a residue of red, green and black coated on its back and front. 

“Is this one of the coins?” he wondered aloud to himself.

He absentmindedly made his way to a window in the next room to hold the coin up to the sunlight to get a better look.  As he relaxed in his thoughts and looked keenly into the coin, a door slammed open and in walked Eve.  Shocked by the unexpected sound, he quietly, but quickly walked through the far door and headed to the kitchen.  Eve was about to walk in when he went to throw the coin into his pocket and immediately realized his pants had no pockets.  One split second before she walked in the room, he threw the coin in his mouth and swallowed.  He didn’t want to get caught this early in the game --- he wanted to find out everything about these people --- so he hid the coin in the best place he could think of at the moment . . . .

“Hi Billy, how is the cable coming?” Eve said with a smile as she looked through today’s mail.

“It’s going really well, Mrs. Ancient.” He said politely. “Should be finished in about ten more days.”

“If you call me Mrs. Ancient again, I’ll kick you.” She said joking with him. “Call me Eve.”

“Okay Eve.” He replied.  “I think I’m going to . . . .”  Just then he noticed his hands begin to shake.  He felt his throat begin to swell with water, like he was taking a drink and had to keep gulping.

Eve looked up and saw what was happening.  She knew what was going on – this is just like the change from Joseph’s potion.  She ran over and caught Billy before he stumbled and fell forward.  She laid him down as he passed out and a film of moisture began to envelop his entire body.  She started ripping off his clothes to allow the process to have room to create the mist just as Joseph walked in.

“What the hell is happening here, Joseph?” Eve asked. “How did Billy get the potion?”

I began to rip at his clothes with Eve and looked at him with astonishment --- I have the potion with me.  I never leave it anywhere but on my person.  “I don’t know how this is happening, but we need to call the others and let them know there may be someone new in the family.”

(To be continued . . . .)

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Billy (Part two)

Billy was growing tired of watching his neighbor’s bizarre group of friends (or family?) from afar, and concocted a plan to get closer.  These people seemed technologically astute, so Billy thought that offering his services as an electrician and home network installer would get their attention. He printed out a hundred flyers and circulated some to about 20 houses around the block. He paid two twelve year old kids twenty-dollars to put them in mailboxes and in doorways, and then he had them repeat this three times over two weeks. He wanted to make sure someone in the household looked at one of cheap promo’s he was offering, hoping he would get a call.

Two weeks went by and several neighbors called inquiring about his service, but Billy put them off by saying their setup would be a thousand dollars more than he was offering in the promo because of wiring.  After two more weeks of waiting, Billy decided to help matters along by calling on the Ancient’s regarding his services.  He knew they must have received at least three flyers with his name and phone number enclosed, and he could prove he was a legitimate technician due to his certifications (if they asked for them).   He worked up the nerve to walk down to their house, knock on their door and introduce himself.  Eve answered the door and Billy tried as hard as he could not to stare at her or work his eyes downward to her breast and legs.  He had never seen someone so beautiful and sensual in his life.  Even in jeans and a tee shirt she appeared to be flawless and had a certain command about her, as if she were someone to worship.

“May I help you?” she asked with the partially opened door chained from the inside.

“Yes ma’am,” he answered politely, “I’m a neighbor from across the way and I sent out some fliers to the neighborhood --- now I am following up on those.” He smiled with a charming grin at the end of his introduction.

“Oh, are you the one that works on the home networks?” Eve asked

“Yes, that’s me. I . . . .”

Eve interrupted, “Hold on,” she said as she unchained the door, “Joseph, that guy that does the home network stuff is here.” She called out to Billy’s surprise. He wondered if they could read minds, too.

Eve lead Billy to Joseph’s home office.  Billy looked over everything he passed with laser like attention, remembering as many things as he could as he passed them.  He wanted to save any bit of information he could for analysis later.  He was taken directly to Joseph’s home office and introduced by Eve.

“So”, Joseph said, “you’re timing is excellent.  I don’t have time myself to hook up what I want so I think I will rely on you.  What’s your name, again?” he asked extending his hand to shake.

“Billy, Billy Hollander.” He said as he took Joseph's hand. “What do you need?”  Billy asked as he sat in a chair in front of Joseph’s desk.

While Joseph was explaining how he wanted his network to work, Billy’s eyes shifted back and forth looking for information on the desk, on the book shelves and every within "eye-shot" -- trying to learn more about the Ancients.  His eyes moved to a table sitting to the left of Joseph’s desk.  There was a microscopic device in the center of the table surrounded by hundreds of old coins … ancient coins.  He wondered what all that was about and made certain to remember what he saw.

“So that’s what I need, Mr. Hollander.”

“Call me Billy.” The younger man said. “No problem, Mr. Ancient.  I will get an estimate together and bring it by tomorrow afternoon.

“Please.  We’re neighbors, call me Joseph.”

Billy smiled and got up from the chair and Joseph walked him back to the front door.  They exchanged a farewell and Billy headed back to his house, barely containing the excitement he was feeling.  At last he could find out first hand what was going on in the Ancient’s household.

(To be continued . . . .)

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Billy (Part One)

Billy sat viewing a video on his computer laptop that he had taken three weeks ago of a neighbor’s backyard gathering.  A beautiful woman spewed fire into the sky from her mouth as he hid in a tree secluded from site with his camera about five houses away from where the Ancient’s lived.  He shivered as he watched the scene over again and again.  This isn’t the only strange event he has witnessed from this neighborhood home – he saw a man floating in the air in the middle of the night in the same backyard.  He had heard that the group of people who frequented this house was different, but he never dreamed they were like this – more than human.

He began to watch the house about six weeks ago and found that ten people (or five couples) were constantly coming and going at all hours of the day and night.  They were quiet and no one seemed to complain about any strange things happening at this location, but Billy’s gut told him that he should wait and watch.  He played the video of the beautiful woman (whom he discovered was Eve Ancient) sending a huge cloud of fire into the sky with one breath.  What is this?  He kept asking himself if this was a trick of some sort, that maybe he would see an apparatus or chemicals being handed to her to allow such a huge fire ball to come out of her mouth.  But there was nothing – just a coin someone threw to her before she heaved the fire.

In his research he found that the house belonged to Joseph and Eve Ancient.  They both owned several web sites and one of the websites sold coins, curios and artifacts.  He went to the site and found “Joseph Ancient’s House of Ancient Coins and Curios” (http://www.ancientscoin.com). He had to admire the strangeness of some of the curios as well as the detail and authenticity of the ancient coins.  So the wife was tossed a coin and then came the fire?  He pondered the series of moves that led to the fire breathing of Mrs. Ancient.

“What about the others?” he asked himself.  How are these people related?  We have the two red heads that stand out in the crowd along with the beautiful wife and tall girl that has a shorter husband.  There’s that scruffy “John the Baptist” looking guy and his wife that always seemed to be standing instead of sitting. And then there is the ordinary girl and boy next door couple that seemed to be the “quiet ones” in the group.  These are ten people with different styles and personalities that look like they would have nothing in common.  Who are they?  Where did they come from? Why care?  Billy was curious and needed to know more.  Since his divorce he has been bored and lonely, but at thirty-two years old he was making great money as an electrician and “wiring guy” – there are plenty of companies needing to run category 5 an 6 wiring for their network systems and he always had contract work from other companies that had more work than they could handle  He made enough money to take two weeks off a month to spy on his neighbors and still have plenty of time to party and meet new ladies until the next booked job.

In all, the entire group down the street consisted of young twenty-something’s -- except for Joseph Ancient, who was noticeably older, bald and had a different demeanor about him --- almost like he was always on his guard with his eyes shifting like he was looking for something or waiting for something to happen.  Billy felt uncomfortable just thinking about having to talk to him face to face.  “How could such a homely, scary looking guy as this get such a hot gorgeous wife as her,” he thought, “must be lots of money in those pockets.”

“I guess I will have to take a closer look at these people and hope they don’t see me,” Billy said aloud to himself.

He began to type on his laptop keyboard looking for clues.  His screen brought him to the Missouri Public Records website.  He thought this would be a good place to start his new

hobby . . . .

(To be continued . . . .)

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