Short Story 1 Chp 2 September 22/08

It was Saturday evening and finally had time alone, I hurried to the car to retrieve the suitcase. Ran into the apartment and into the bedroom, then for a moment I sat and battled my inner thoughts should I open the case. Guilt was starting to set in, but then I remembered how much grief this suitcase represented, how it messed up my relationship with David and how he was making time for someone else but could never do that for me. Suddenly my guilt was gone and I began to fidget with the five digital alpha numeric key pad, it had a neon green glow, with notable contrasting dark black display. It contained ten characters the numbers 1-5 and the letters A-E. The passkey being only five of all the possible mixed combination, which is 1260 possible combination. This was a bit discouraging because I wasn't sure if he had changed his passkey, and knew that the system had a fail safe which would disable after 3 tries. David was simple and it usually could be read like a book, and his passkeys always were in circulation but they were always the same with just a few changes. I began with the most common one he used, which was 15MIH which meant 15 min in hell. He would always use that phrases it was his favorite argument phrases to throw at me, I rather spend so and so, that be here with you it was always hurtful. Inputting the data I was nervous to press enter, so I inhaled and hoped that it was that, the green neon screen turned a bright red indicating that it was incorrect. So I moved on to the next possible combination, which was a saying of my own, that he found so particularly interesting as we started to fall in love with each other ages ago. 1DEDA, which meant "one death everyday always", so I said to myself if this one doesn't work I will not risk inputting the third one, I rather not get into trouble I thought. The though of someone dying everyday is gruesome but it happens, it was meant more as a reminder that the world goes on, weather we die or live, and we cannot be allowed to be affect by our past, but must also stride not to forget our mistakes. So as I inhaled deeply for the second time, I inputted the code, and to my surprise it worked. Which I was mildly flattered but shocked. Flattered that he would use my quote, and shocked that I was in. As I opened the case as I had never seen inside of it, expecting documents of ground plans, and road plans, dirt specification, I found a couple of documents, and a laptop. A red document which contained a list of chemicals and a blue one, a statement, which was issued by the government which I found rather odd, As I began to read it I began to get more confused that I had previously was. It read "Project Rainstorm- WARNING all personal should be extremely cautions on method of distributing and handling data, all personal in violation of code 52, will be handled accordingly. Furthermore if the data contained in case NO 256, is handled by unauthorized personal can lead to failure of objective code 373" This of course didn't make sense to me, why would a civil engineer have a statement of caution. Why is there a chemical list with what seems a compound drawing of chemical bonds. I opened the laptop, and it was on sleep mode upon opening it, it lit up, and asked me for "CODE RED please enter to proceed" Which I had no idea what it was referring to. So for I moment I got discouraged and placed the entire documents and suitcase on the bed. I went downstairs to feed my cat Salem, he was so stubborn at times he was very thing because he was picky on what he ate, and he had radiant yellow eyes. So typical of a fictional cat, but I loved him. I went back up stairs, to think it over, what could they mean by red code, when I sat down on the bed and almost topped over the lap top, I managed to catch it, but had dropped the two documents, and they landed upside down when I picked them up and notice they had numbers inscribed on the back, One on the red document and one on the blue. When it hit me red code, and blue code that was what the computer was referring to. So I immediately input the codes. What I say next was the most disturbing thing I had ever seen.