Jamie And Justin

Jamie was just messing around on his laptop when his phone rang. He saw the Phone ID. It was Justin. He picked it up.

“Justin! How’s your secret stealth mission going?”

Justin shushed him. “Jamie, I need you to listen to me carefully. We don’t have a lot of time.”

Jamie quickly grew serious. He knew he was going to be needed to hack something. “Hit it at me.”

“You see those pen like thingamjjigs on your desk?”

Jamie's brow furrowed. Regardless, he scanned the desk. He saw a blue pen like thing.

“Yeah got it,” he whispered. He went to pick it up.

“Don’t pick it up. They’ll self-detonate.”

Jamie took back his hand. “Right.”

“The pens will activate if you say ‘Hallmark’.”

“What?”

“Just say it.”

Jamie looked at the pens in confusion. They stared right back. He felt like a right idiot, thinking of talking to stationary. He decided he wanted this to be over as soon as possible.

“Hallmark.”

The pens lighted up. Each pen putting up a small hologram of a spinning number.

Justin sighed impatiently. “Did you get it?”

“I think so..,” murmured Jamie, suddenly much more interested. It looked like some kind of code. He told Justin as much. He sighed.

“Good. Now you can control the missiles.”

Jamie laughed. “What missiles?” But then when the line was silent, his face dropped. “What missiles.”

“The one they’ve sent to kill me?”

Jamie slammed the desk and stood up. “Justin-” The wires pulled the headset down and it fell on the keyboard. “Shit-”

“Hey hey hey, listen to me”

“you can’t just-”

“Jamie”

“Missiles?! What the hell have you gotten yourself into-”

“Jamie!”

“You know what I don’t even need to know, I’m out.”

“It’s a hundred million dollars!” Jamie froze.

“If we pull this off, if we get this one right, we get a hundred million dollars.”

Jamie sat back down on his chair, skeptical about what he was saying.

“How do you know these people?”

“I’ve got contacts; you know that Jamie.”

“How do you know they’ll keep their word?”

“We’re under contract” Jamie relaxed a bit. A giddy excitement was beginning to make its way through his heart. He pushed it down. This wasn’t a small house robbery. This was an international matter. Lives were on the line, especially theirs. There were so many things he needed to take into consideration.

“They’ll double cross you”

“Of course they’ll double cross me, that’s why I have you.”

Jamie sat down. His mind was buzzing with plans and back up plans and back back up plans. The headset buzzed.

“Jamie are we doing this or not?”

Jamie shook his head. Crazy man. “Damnit…,” he said. “I haven’t even worked with something as big as missiles.”

Justin laughed. “You better not mess it up”

Jamie slid hid hands down his face, hiding a smile. The bright blue hologram spun behind his eyes like money. “Oh god what have I gotten myself into.”