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“Thanks, but keep it a secret. People still think mom makes it. No one has tasted my cooking yet, and I can’t cook for as many people as Mom can,” he laughed.
“It’s definitely a gift she has,” I agreed, taking another bite of the scone. Cory shook his head with a smile and closed the container before I could grab another.
“Eat your breakfast,” he ordered.
“Geez. It’s not like I am a small eater,” I complained, but opened the other container.
“Someone has to make sure the new head of department is taking care of herself,” Cory said, making me narrow my eyes at him.
“Are you using my own words against me?”
“Nope. I said the head of department, not Alpha.” He smirked, then sat. “How are you feeling?”
“Better. Rest was a good call. I’m just finishing the code now, and I should be able to flash the first phone to see if it worked,” I said.
“Do you want me to wait?”
“No. I’d rather check this one on my own first. If it doesn’t work, I need to figure out where I missed something. Could take a while.”
“Okay. I’ll head out then, and let you get back to work,” he told me, standing up.
“Have they heard from Xochil?” I asked.
“They found her phone, but they haven’t found her. Uncle Helios is convinced they found her, but he thinks she got away. We’re still looking.”
“Fucking hell. Didn’t the seer say the war wasn’t starting for another twenty-something years?” I asked, scared for my friend.
“Yeah, but nothing on when it would begin escalating to it.” He sighed and left.
“Hey, I’m having lunch with James and Molly if you want to join.” Zi came in a few minutes later.
“No, I’m good. I want to finish the code. Did you test all the firewalls Dad has installed?”
“Almost. So far, there are no holes. He’s good.”
I smiled with some relief and pride.
“I expected nothing less,” I said.
“I have a few ideas running through my head, as well. Do you want to get together later this week and talk about them?” Zi asked.
“Of course. That reminds me, we should start scheduling some short one-on-one meetings for people to pitch their personal projects.”
“You got it, boss.”
Zi went off to lunch, and I was glad she wasn’t here to witness my frustration because the damn code didn’t work. At least I was happy I chose to use one of the phones we bought from Nathan before I tried it on the other phones, so no vital data was lost. I also now had his raw code, so I could implement it on the same wiped phone and try as many times as I needed to make it work.
I knew my code was correct. I was careful in the way I coded all of the commands, which likely meant I forgot a damn closing parenthesis somewhere. This was the one thing I hated about being a programmer, you miss one piece of syntax, and the entire program fails.
I was going to have to review every inch of code to see where I fucked up. Despite my best attempts to be fast yet thorough in review, my first run through the code came up empty for mistakes. Zi ended up dragging me home at the end of the day, and despite my best attempts to try to come in on Saturday to work on it, both Zi and Cory threatened to lock me in my room if I didn’t take the weekend off.
I babysat Molly and took the opportunity to hang out with Meli and Jo on Saturday night, instead. She was lovely, and I got a lot of dirt on the guys for future blackmail. Unfortunately, I spent fourteen years with Jo, and he shot back more embarrassing stories about me than Meli did about them.
“Now, that’s not fair. You’re the one who was asking me to download the new Toy Story when it wasn’t in theaters yet. It was your fault I had my nose stuck in the tablet.” I laughed while he imitated my face after I’d fallen into a puddle.
“It was a good movie,” he defended.
“That’s true.” I agreed.
