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“Anyway, there’s only one lesbian here Chris, you…”
“Two.” I interrupt. Callie snaps her eyes to me. “I came out the first week of university!” I add, just so there is no mistaking what I’m saying.
“Oh, I didn’t know that.”
“Why would you?” It sounds harsh, but we rarely kept in touch once I left. It was too hard.
“Yeah, I suppose I wouldn’t.”
“Well, it goes both ways. When did you come out?”
“I was nineteen.” We sit and look at each other. These bouts of eye contact need to stop. Chris clears his throat.
“Now we’ve established our group is flying the rainbow flag all around. Do you want to tell me what we’re doing next? I presume you have a plan?”
Callie breaks eye contact first. “Not really, but, yes, there are some things we need to fill you in on.”
I let Callie tell Chris about our conversation. She fills him in on the rest of her and our history, too. I understand why she didn’t want to tell him everything to begin with, but that’s not an option anymore.
“I suggest we take a couple of days to regroup here before moving on. Betty only has a general idea of my location. I haven’t told her that I made contact with you.”
“Are you sure you weren’t followed?” Chris asks.
“Completely sure. My phone and laptop are encrypted, so even if Betty got adventurous and tried to track me that way, she’ll hit a brick wall.
“Why do you have an encrypted phone?”
“She would have to kill you if she told you, buddy,” Callie supplies before I can answer. I laugh.
“You two are weird. I love it.” He smirks. Now all three of us are laughing.
“We are safe here for a little while.” I add, I don’t want Chris to worry.
“We have to figure out who to give the information to once we have it.” Callie says, her eyes are darting around. As funny as the conversation has been this morning, we need to remember that what we’re doing is stupidly dangerous and we must be careful who hears what.
“What do you meanoncewe have it? I told you my evidence is in my online vault. I can access that anytime and you have the book, so?”
“Yeah, about the book…”
“What about the book, Callie?” I can already tell our job is about to get a lot harder.
“It’s in four separate pieces spread across Europe.” Well, fuck. I wasn’t expecting that.
“Why?” I almost screech.
“For the simple reason that if I ever got caught, they couldn’t take the book and shoot me in the face.” Can’t argue with that logic. “All we have to do is go to my hiding spots and pick them up.”
“We can do that!” Chris says, nodding. My phone vibrates. It’s already laying on the table. We can all see it’s Gary calling. His name is scrawled across the screen along with Gross Pig in brackets. Callie raises both perfect eyebrows at that.
I pick the phone up and tell them both to be silent. “Gary.” By the expression on Callie’s face, I can tell that Gary is practically shouting at me. She hates it as much as me when people do that.
“Where are you?” He is a little sweaty.
“Why? Is there a problem?” There isn’t because I have been communicating with the higher ups all through my travels. After talking to Penny, I finally decided to tell them about Gary. They informed me that I no longer had to report to him in any way. I’m surprised he hasn’t got the memo.
“I’m worried, that’s all. You don’t usually go running off.”
“Gary, you have no idea what I do with my time. I see you once a month at best. Why are you calling? You must have received the memo?” I have to be cryptic when talking to him. Callie and Chris can’t know any details about my work. I just hope Gary isn’t stupid enough to mention anything. Again.
