I Woke Up 77 by M.P. Arsent
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"That doesn't sound good Dirk. Talk to me."
"I've been offered a deal on the dealerships that could really make me big time. I'm just not so sure it's an up and up deal. I was kinda hoping you'd be willing to take a look at it for me."
"Sure I'll look at it but isn't there anybodyelse closer to home that you trust?"
"In fact no. Listen I know we've never been exactly the best of friends Dennis,but you've always played straight with people. Yeah I know poor choice of words but you see what I'm getting at."
"I do Dirk. Is it in any form you can email me?"
"Yeah I had one of the secrataries put into a PDF for easier portability. I can send it to you right after we hang up."
"Ok I can read a PDF no problem. Send it out to me and I'll try and get to it tomorrow,if I have time."
"If?"
"Yeah I just got selected as an alternate for the gymnastics team and I have a lot of work to do before our next meet in two weeks."
"Good on you Den. I hope that works out for you. Regardless I'd appreciate anything you can come up with. Dad once said if it looks to good to be true it probably is. This looks to good."
"I hear that. I'll check it out for you Dirk and get back soonest. Is there a deadline to accept?"
"Yeah next Friday."
"Plenty of time. Send it to me and if I don't see it in my box by tomorrow morning I'll call you."
"Ok Thanks again Dennis."
I hung up and went back to work on my studies. I finished up about 10:30 and checked my email to see if the PDF was there. It was and I opened it just to make sure that I could. Naturally I started reading it.
Before I knew it I was about 15 pages into it when my phone buzzed. It was the usual 11pm message from Karl. I sent my usual back and shut down the computer and sacked out.
5:45 rolled around and I slipped out of bed and into my jogging clothes and headed out. Gordon was waiting for me and we started out and picked Karl up as usual. He made it 4 out of the 5 laps today.
"See after for breakfast love."
"Yeah I'll be over in a few."
Gordon and I finished our laps and showered and changed. I headed downstairs to have breakfast with Karl on this Sunday morning and he was waiting on me.
"You'll never guess who I got a call from last night."
"I give up."
"Dirk of all people."
"Why don't I like the sounds of that love?"
"Nothing like that Karl. He has a deal pending that he wanted me to look over. Says it looks to good to be true."
"Which usually means it is."
"Right. I'm a ways into it now but I haven't seen anything that raises any red flags."
"So you going to concentrate on that today or the gym?"
"Who says I can't do both?"
"I suppose."
"Going to join me for either?"
"Doubtful love. I know you . Either one you'll get your head into and that will be all she wrote."
"Probably. I think I'll tackle the deal first love. See you for lunch?"
"If you remember."
When we were finished I headed back upstairs and booted the computer. I picked up where I left off and made my way through the rest of the package.
There was only one thing that caught my attention. If I interpreted this right,if Dirk didn't meet their expectation for 5 years the principals could take over everything. The standards he was to be measured against were set forth in appendix c.
I turned to appendix c and though it was more finely worded those standards were to be determined at a future time. That had my mind sounding an alarm. I read a bit further and there were no guidelines for determining those standards. I went back and proceeded to look at all of the other appendices and I couldn't find any guidelines anywhere.
To me, without any guidelines, they could make that standard as outrageous as they wanted and there wouldn't be a damn thing Dirk could do about.
I called Karl.
"Love do we know anybody that we can trust who knows contract law?"
"We do but I doubt you're going to like the answer."
"Why?"
"It's Mr McEmbers. He teachs contract law. What the hell did you find?"
"If I've read this right these guys could own everything Dirks father built up inside of 5 years."
"I'll be right over love. I want to take a look at this too."
It was only a few minutes before there was a knock on my door. I opened it and Karl came in and I just gestured to the computer. He went over and started reading from the beginning. Two hours later Karl looked at me as he had finished reading.
"I think you're right lover and why the hell his own legal guys didn't spot it is beyond me."
"Maybe because they buried it back in the appendix. A lot of people never bother with those. I never heard of his principals either, the Grandview group. I hate to do this but I'm going to email the whole package to Stan Bellows and have him do a down and dirty on these guys and see if he gets the same read as I do."
I had Karl get up from the computer and I fired the whole thing off and marked it urgent.
"Ok love how about some lunch before I hit the gym?"
"Yeah it feels about that time."
We headed down to the cafeteria and got a light meal as I was headed over to work out. When Karl and I were finished we went our seperate ways and I made it over to the gym. There were a couple of guys working on thier routines and I stretched out and started with the pommel horse and did my routine. I took a small step out of my landing,but otherwise I was pleased. I worked my way around all of the stations and saved my floor excercise for last. I knew with my luck that was probably the way it would work out in an actual competition.
I finally got through with that and saw there were a few people off to the side who were just watching, Gordon and Aiden amongst them. I got my stuff and headed over to where they were.
"Well what do you think?"
"Damn Denny I had no idea you were that limber. You made that all look easy."
"I can promise you that it isn't. I don't think I could use any of the weight equipment right now if my life depended on it."
"Yeah I don't doubt that. So you off to the whirlpool and then the showers?"
"Yeah and then I'm crashing for the rest of the day,or at least that is my intention."
"Want us to wait for you?"
"No thanks Aiden. No telling how long I'll soak. I'll catch up with you later for supper probably."
"Well I guess I'll push Aiden around for a little fresh air for a while then. About 6 for supper?"
"Sounds about right. Later guys."
I went in and got into the whirlpool and was joined a few minutes later by a couple of the guys from the team.
"You were looking pretty good out there Dennis."
"Thanks but I still have a ways to go before I'm ready for competition."
"You damn sure looked ready to me."
"Thanks Al but a few of the moves don't quite feel right. You know what I mean?"
"Yeah I think I know what you're getting at. Well you still have the better part of two weeks to get it together."
"Speaking of which, I'm going to try and get the school to let us rent a coach for students to come to our meets,if you think there's any interest in that and the coach approves."
"Yeah I know a few people who might be interested."
"So do I and neither of them have a car so a bus would be the only way for them."
"Guess that settles it. I'll ask coach and then see in the school has to approve it."
I soaked for a bit longer and then hit the showers. By the time I got back to my dorm it was only 5 so I just put my feet up and did a little recreational reading.
6pm and there was a knocking at my door ad it was Gordon and Aiden.
"Just let me give Karl a quick call."
I did and he came on over and we hooked up with him downstairs. Supper was quick and easy and then Karl and I went for a bit of a walk.
"I had a couple of guys from the team tell me I was looking good today love."
"AS far as I'm concerned you always look good."
"On the apparatus smart ass."
"Yeah there too."
"Regardless, it makes me feel a little more confident that I'm ready to go if the other team members think I'm good. Still the coach hasn't said anything."
"He's not likely to until after your first 'official' work out."
"I suppose not."
We walked around for about an hour and it was starting to get dark. We found a little corner to hide in for our good night kiss and we both took off for our dorms. I got to my room and did a little more reading. 11 pm rolled around and Karl and I exchanged texts and shortly after that I was sleep.
The usual roust at 5:45 and the routine of jogging,breakfast and off to class. After accounting I went back to the dorm and waited until Aiden had his last class. I got him and Gordon into Aidens car and it was out to the hospital. Things were taken care of and I got all of us back to campus.
I went into my room and booted my computer to check my email. There was one there from Stan.
"Call me. Not going home until I hear from you. Stan"
NOTE: Just so you folks don't think I've abandoned you,there will not be a chapter next week as I will be on the road. The next chapter should be up shortly after 7/25. Thanks for reading.