I Woke Up 112 by M.P. Arsent
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With that Dana pulled away and we all continued on towards our houses. Roland and Aaron gave us a quick hug as we wouldn't be seeing them again for several weeks at least.
Karl and I were back to his house showered and changed and then out to breakfast. I made sure to give Pete a call and told him we would be over in about an hour or so.
Soon enough it was the usual routine of saying goodbye to the family. Hugs for Gert and Connie, and handshake for Stan, and ruffle of Bobbies hair seeing as he was still on the crutches. Regardless of what turned up they were my family too now.
A few minutes were spent visiting with Millie while Pete got his stuff into the Benz and we headed off back to school. Traffic was horrendous and several accidents along the way, and all of those returning from their holiday travel,turned the normally 6 hour drive into an 9 hour trial of endurance, topped off by a traffic jam as people tried to get back onto campus.
I had told Pete all about what had happened while we were home and he got on my case a little for not telling him while it was all happening. When I told him about my possibly having a twin brother he looked at me.
"The world ain't ready for two of you. Dude, just be careful and don't get your hopes up and if it turns out you do have a brother,well just be damned careful."
"Pete, I'm telling you the same as I've told everybody else. The lawyers are going to make sure anybody I talk to is squeaky clean before I ever set eyes on them, or at the very least I know exactly what I'm walking into."
"Yeah right. Not worried about before you set eyes on them, it's after I'm concerned about."
"I'm not. I have the best support system in the world with you two guys. Anybody tries anything and I have no doubt whatsoever that you guys will have my back."
Eventually we got to drop Karl off and then around the quad to our own parking lot. After the hassle getting back onto campus we weren't about to go out to get supper. Karl came across and we went to the cafeteria,which was crowded as all get out. We got our food and finally found a place to sit.
"Damn it wasn't this bad the day we checked in."
"Seems everybody had the same idea of getting back early to avoid the holiday traffic. So much for good ideas."
Gordon and Aiden came along and plunked down with us. They both looked like they had been put through the mill.
"Damn you guys look beat."
"We are beat. Aiden came by a couple of days after Christmas and we've been together ever since. Long talks were only the beginning of it and good taste prevents me from saying anymore."
"I'm sure that went over well with your dad."
"I saw dad for all of an hour Christmas day. Mom of course was all over me. She even seems to like Aiden."
"Give him time Gordon. He'll realize at some point that it doesn't,or at least shouldn't matter."
"Not holding my breath Den, though I know mom will keep working on him. So how was your holiday?"
"You know the usual. Parties,carolling,presents,football, a little bit of terrorism, and finding out I might have a twin brother out there somewhere."
Gordon and Aiden both nearly choked on their drinks.
"Say WHAT?????"
"I was cleaning out my parents bedroom and found a safe I had no idea was there. Long story short there was a letter and documents saying I was adopted and that mom and dad would have taken both of us,but it wasn't allowed. I have the lawyers digging into it now."
"I hope you know what you're doing Den."
"I've got to try Aiden and not to worry the lawyers are checking any and everybody out before I even approach them."
"I should hope to hell that you are. Don't know whether or not to wish you good luck with that or not."
"I suppose it could turn out badly Gordon, but I'm hoping it turns out great. Yes I know very Pollyanna of me. Oh and one more thing. I don't know if I told you or not, but I've got my memory back."
"Damn it's been a busy two weeks. Well that has to be a big relief."
"Yeah it's going to take a while to work through a few things as things are still kind of randomly dropping into place, but I'll get there."
"Now what's this about a little bit of terrorism?"
"You remember the whole thing with Larry, well his dad is holding me responisble for it all. Long story short he was doing things simply to aggrevate me into doing something stupid. The police caught him a few days ago. I'm waiting to hear how that turns out. What really bothers me about it is that the kid brother got involved as well and now his life is probably ruined as well."
"You can't just live a simple life can you Den? An let me guess;you're going to do everything you can to help the kid brother."
"Seems not Aiden, and yeah I've also got the lawyers looking into what can be done for the kid. You guys going to be up for jogging in the morning or should we go without you?"
"We'll be there. It was the one thing we both kept up the whole time."
Soon enough we were all done eating and Karl and I decided it was still early enough for a walk about campus. We saw a few familiar faces and passed a few minutes with different folks. Eventually we headed back to the dorms. We had our goodnight kiss and I headed up to my room, to be greeted by a big red heart on the board. I made my way down to the day room and sat there and watched whatever the guys had on the tv.
It was only about a half hour later that I got an all clear text from Pete. I headed back to the room and Pete was just laying on his bed with a smile on is face.
"I take it Susan was happy to see you?"
"You know it. It's been two weeks for crying out loud."
"I guess there are advantages to having your lover living right next door."
I ducked the pillow that had come my way. I finished unpacking what stuff I had brought back from home and then checked my email for anything from the college or anybodyelse for that matter. There were no notices or anything else. I cracked the books for about an hour and then just kicked back until 11 when Karl sent his usual message and I sent mine back.
The alarm went off and I rolled out of bed and slipped on my jogging stuff and headed out. Gordon and Aiden were right there looking better for a good nights sleep. We took off and Karl meant us as we passed his dorm. We took our laps without incident and got back to take our showers and then down to breakfast on this Sunday morning.
"So what's on your agenda for the rest of the day?"
"I don't know about anybody else but I'm headed for the rec center. I need a good workout in the apparatus room. There's a meet the end of the month and I for one intend to be ready."
"I'll come spot you Den. I doubt like hell that anybody else will be there today."
"I think Aiden and I are going to go over and hit the workout room ourselves and maybe a swim."
"Just let me grab my equipment and we can head over."
I made a quick trip back upstairs and grabbed my gymnastics bag and we were on our way to the rec center. As Karl had suspected the rec center was rather empty but that was fine by me.
We changed up and Karl and I made our way to the apparatus room. There wasn't anybody there. I stretched out some and warmed up and then went and did my floor excercise. I continued on through all the rest of the equipment and by the time I was finished I was tired.
Karl and I then went and did a bit of work in the workout room and then went for a few laps in the pool before relaxing in the whirlpool.
Once we showered up we headed over to the student union for a late lunch.
There were a good many people out and about by this time and we eventually found ourselves in a pick up game of tag football. The team we were on eventually ended up loosing but we were pleasantly exhausted.
We finally ended up making it back to my room about 4.
"So I know we just had a late lunch, but what are you thinking for supper Den?"
"Actually, I'm thinking about heading over to Tony's for a good sub sandwich."
"That does sound good. When do you want to go?"
"I'd say give it a couple of hours."
"And what do we do until then?"
"Well, I suppose we could always put our own heart on the board."
"Like you haven't had enough of a workout today."
"Different set of muscles lover."
I went to draw the heart on our board and when I turned around Karl was already naked and waiting. I quickly stripped and needless to say a little over an hour later we were both really exhausted.
Once we cleaned up and got our clothes back on I texted Pete to let him know the room was clear. He showed up about 10 minutes later.
"Geez you guys didn't get enough of each other over the holidays?"
"Never enough Pete."
"We're heading out to Tony's for some supper. You comeing with?"
"Nah I'm meeting Susan in a bit."
"Well then why don't we head out Karl? We can kill a litttle time and walk over. I'm betting traffic is going to be snarled up with those that waited until the last minute to come on back."
"Yeah I'm thinking so as well."
We headed out across campus to one of the pedestrian gates and the couple of blocks over to Tonys. It was fairly busy with everybody getting back into town. We waited our turn and got our sandwiches and found a table for ourselves.
We were just about finished when we heard sirens in the distance, a lot of them. While we were walking back to campus several ambulances went by lights flashing and sirens screaming,in the direction of the campus.
"Shit! I wonder what happened."
There were other students coming up behind us from Tony's as wellas other places and we kind of got caught up in the rush. When we got to the gate there was a crowd and they weren't letting us in.
The word finally came down that there was an active shooter on campus, and the shots were mainly aimed at Ingram hall, my dorm.