I Woke Up 73 by M.P. Arsent
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"Must have been a wrong number."
Karl stopped short of closing his door.
"Turn your phone off Den."
"What?"
"Humor me turn your phone off and keep it out."
I did as he asked and turned my phone off and kept it out. Several seconds later it powered back up.
"Turn it off and take the battery out. Shit somebody has a serious hardon for you lover."
I did as asked before I turned to Karl.
"Now what the hell are you talking about?"
"Somebody with some serious juju was trying to track you using the GPS in your phone. We're talking government agency serious,or somebody with satelite access and some serious computer time."
"Do we know anybody like that?"
"On thier own? I'm doubting that,but.......maybe somebody with a college computer lab might be to pull this off."
"Karl.....what was Larry going to school for?"
"Computer electronics. Damn! Yes Anderson Poly would have the computer know how and they have an astronomy program as well so satelite access shouldn't be beyond their capabilities either."
"We gotta be talking some serious computer and satelite time. He's gotta have someone helping him. Shit do we know anybody else at Anderson?"
"Get in here and let me think......Micah Thompson planned on going there but hell if I remember if he made it in or not. Shit I might still have his email."
"Before you go there is he somebody who will help us?"
"Yeah I think so. He's straight but he isn't one of Larrys biggest fans."
"Look him up and send him an email and let's see what happens."
Karl went over and booted his computer and went to work. He did have an address for Micah so he shot him off an email. So I was in Karls room now and I wasn't about to leave. About an hour later Karls phone started going off. He looked at the caller ID and it was Micah.
"Hey Micah how you holiding up? You're on speaker and I have Dennis here."
"Hey Dennis. I heard about what happened to you. Sorry I didn't get over to see you during the summer."
"Don't worry about it. There's always next year."
"So what the hell is going on that you guys would call me?"
"I can sum that up in two words, Larry Brown."
"Damn what's he done this time Karl?"
Between us we filled Micah in from the gymnastics meet forward with all of the bits and pieces and finishing with the phone incident.
"Yeah he's stupid enough to try something like that,hell he might even try to dump your phone calls if he has his hooks into somebody as nuts as he is. But what do you want me to do about it?"
"You're there for programming right?"
"Yeah."
"So you must have friends or at least contacts in their computer facilities right?"
Yeah but not somebody who could pull something like this off."
"Doesn't need to be as long as it is somebody the higher ups might listen to. All you really need to do is bitch about the machine running slower than normal or that you keep getting wierd results or something. Anything that will have the higher ups looking the system over. If something like the GPS tracking is going on it has to take a good portion of their time and assets,which I am damn sure isn't being paid for. You see where we're going here?"
"Yeah I do and it might well be something they would notice on their own given a bit of time."
"AS nuts as Larry is we can't wait for them to find it on their own. This needs to be done soonest if you're willing."
"Oh I'm willing. There's no love loss between Larry and me. He hasn't even talked to me and we're on the same campus. I'll see what I can do and call you in a couple of days."
"That's all we can ask for Micah and thanks."
Karl disconnected the call and looked at me.
"Now what lover?"
"I'm thinking I need to go get a cheap phone and dump this one,much as I am going to hate doing that."
"Get the cheap phone love,pay cash for it,one of those prepaid phones so there isn't a paper trail. Your regular phone goes dead and they're going to know something is up. I just wouldn't keep it with you all of the time. Just enough so that they will see movement every once in a while. They can't possibly be monitoring you 24/7 so that should work."
"Yeah but how many other people am I going to be putting in dangers way if I do that?"
"I don't know love,but I don't think even Larry is stupid enough to inflict mass casualties."
"We'd better hope not. Ok I'll power this one back up but leave it offline and hit Wally World for another. I'm only going to give you,Pete, and Mrs Ohanlon,and maybe Mr Bellows the number for now. Why don't you grab your shower as I can see it in your eyes that you ain't going back to sleep. I should be back by the time you're done."
"Yeah likely as not you're right lover. Go on get out of here and I'll see you in a bit."
I put the battery back in the phone and then I headed out for Wally World after I checked the car over. While I was driving I thought about it for a bit. I was going to need to change the passwords on all of my accounts. Accounts! shit damn. I pulled over and got my phone out and looked up Mr Bellows private number seeing as it was Sunday.
"Must be something very important for you to call me at home Dennis."
"I hate doing it to you on a Sunday Mr Bellows and it may damn well be catastrophic. You remember I warned you about Larry Brown,well somebody tried to remote access my phone a bit ago. I'm worried that he might try and do the same to the business and screw with not only whatever accounts I have there but all of our clients as well."
"Mother of God Dennis do you know what you're saying?"
"I think I do. First thing tomorrow I want you to isolate all of my accounts and then beef up whatever defenses we have. I assume we have an IT staff so get them keeping an extra eye on all accounts. Any unusal activity call the client and verify. I know that will have consequences of its own but I think we would rather deal with that then a shit load of lawsuits.
Better get the lawyers in on this as well seeing as they pay all of my bills and what not. Just as soon as I get back to the dorm I'm signing up for Identity theft insurance and I'm going to put all of my credit cards on notice."
"This twerp really has you scared doesn't he?"
"I don't know about scared,but I don't feel like taking any chances. From what Karl and others tell me he is stupid enough to try something and arrogant enough to think he can get away with it. Now that I've called you,you had better see to your own defenses."
"Damn sure I will as soon as I hang up. Thanks for the heads up Dennis."
I continued my trip out to Wally World and got a cheap prepaid phone and airtime. I wouldn't even let them set it up for me. I checked the car over again and made the trip back to campus and to Karls room.
"Hey feeling better now lover?"
"Yeah I never thought a simple shower could make you feel so much better."
"Let's walk over to the library and I'll use one of their public access computers to activate this phone and then we can think about getting some supper or something."
"Yeah I think a bit of fresh air might do me some good as well."
We took our time getting over to the library and getting the phone setup and activated. Then it was a slow walk back over to the cafeteria for supper. Gordon and Aiden joined us and when I put the new phone on the table as I didn't think to get a holster for it,they immediately recognized it as a different phone.
"What happen to your other phone Den?"
"It's a long story guys."
I recounted the highlights for them.
"This guy has got to be nuts!"
"You'll get no arguement from Aiden. So I want you guys to watch your backs as well. If he can get to my phone,he might damn happy weel have eyes on me as well."
"You don't think he'd come after us just for knowing you do you?"
"From what Pete and Karl have told me I wouldn't put anything past him. Just watch your backs is all I'm saying. Shit I suppose we ought to alert Andy as well,though we already told to keep his eyes open."
"Once you alert your credit cards and get the identy theft insurance you've done all you can short of calling in the police lover. I don't think you have enough for that yet."
"Probably not,but I would dearly love to."
We all finished our meals and I walked Karl back to his room.
"I'm feeling a little tired love so I'm going to crash so I at least have a shot at making through the day tomorrow."
"Yet I bet. Sleep well and I'll see you tomorrow."
I leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek as I knew he wasn't ready for one on the mouth for fear of giving me whatever he had.
I made my way over to the dorm and the dry easel was clean. I knocked just to be on the safe side.
"It's clear Den."
I went in and told Pete what I had been up to all day and he looked at me like I had three heads.
"I knew larry was crazy,but I didn't think he was that crazy."
"We don't know for sure that he is,so I'm just being careful."
I went and booted up my computer and went and got the identity theft and notified all of my credit cards and my bank. After that I did a little studying and before I knew it it was 11 and my 'old' phone buzzed with Karls usual message and I texted back with mine.
Monday morning and the day went as usual with jogging in the morning and then off to classes. We had finally worked out a schedule for getting Aiden to his different classes in the wheelchair.
I went to the gym after my last class and did some work on my floor routine. I did do a quick round of all of the other apparatus and grabbed a shower and went to meet Karl for supper.
Tuesday went much the same until I meant Karl for supper and his phone rang.
"What the hell have you gotten me into?"