It's A Cruel World Part 13

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Katelyn picks up a pizza on the way home after her class. Barbara was out on a date with a fellow she met at work. Clare and Cindy were at work and wouldn’t be home until late. Freddie was already at home and the news he gave her wasn’t good.

It seemed her suspicions had been right about a bug in her car. It had been placed over her OBD plug acting like a second skin, broadcasting her location. Then he found another one super glued under her rear bumper cover.

Things were starting to get dangerous. She bites into the slice of pizza she was holding. She tries to think of some way to set the people up who were chasing her. She knows now, that she can’t go back to XE Security.

Katelyn eats a few more slices, before putting the rest in the refrigerator. She, her roommates and Freddie would eat cold pizza for breakfast. Once the pizza is in the frig, Katelyn lets Caroline outside to potty her.

Katelyn steps outside and watches Caroline. She knew Caroline was picky about where she did her business. Once Caroline was done doing her business. Katelyn gives her a treat and heads towards her bedroom.

Katelyn lays down in bed and turn the lights out. Hopefully, she can figure out what to do next. She needs to speak to Barbara and see what can be arranged.

“Barbara, things are starting to heat up over at XE Security.” Katelyn looked at Barbara as they sat in the kitchen drinking her coffee.

“Well, what do you have so far?” Barbara looks at Katelyn while drinking her coffee.

“Well, for one thing. Some of the guys working for them, shouldn’t be. They shouldn’t even be doing security with the records they have. Another
thing, Delegate Mason has had several situations covered up by XE Security.” Katelyn found a lot of information in the file room.

“Do you have proof about this matter?” Barbara looks at Katelyn.

“You wouldn’t believe the stuff I dug up in the file room and on their computer records.”

“Show me.” Barbara wanted to see this information for herself.

“Okay.” Katelyn sets her coffee mug on the counter.

Katelyn walks out of the kitchen and to her bedroom to grab her tablet. She transferred everything she took pictures of to her computer system. She heads back to the kitchen and shows Barbara everything she has.

Barbara flipped through the information on the tablet and couldn’t believe it. She even saw the information Katelyn stole off the servers that XE Security used. Barbara looks at Katelyn ‘you have a lot of damaging information on everyone.”

“I know. I’ve already done some political cartoon drawings from it.” Katelyn picks her coffee mug up off the counter and drinks some of it.

Barbara looks at Katelyn “Do you mind if I publish some of this?”

“Go ahead, but you know XE Security is going to challenge you and how you got it.” Katelyn knew XE Security was going to go to war to protect themselves.

“An anonymous source dropped off the information to me.” Barbara smiles at Katelyn when she says that.

“You do know the first person they are going suspect is me.”

“Yep, but don’t worry. As far as I know, you didn’t give me the info. They can’t do anything to you.” Barbara takes a sip from her coffee.

“So, what are you going to do now?” Barbara wonders what Katelyn is going to do.

“Watch as XE Security gets what it desires. I do feel sorry for the good employees that work for XE.”

“Me too, but they might be better off working somewhere else, instead of going down with the ship.” Barbara knew how bad things were going to get when she published this information.

XE Security had a lot of high-class security gigs and was well-known in the business world. The owners themselves were highly decorated soldiers. They managed to snag a bunch of military contracts because of their reputation.

Once Katelyn is done with breakfast, she dresses in a pair of tights and a low-slung shirt that exposes her shoulder, while covering the other one. She doesn’t bother wearing a bra, since she was off today and hadn’t planned on going anywhere.

“Come on Caroline, let’s go to work.” Katelyn holds the back door open for Caroline and follows behind her towards her office.

Once Katelyn enters her office, she walks over to her desk and starts working on a new political cartoon from information she recently learned about last night. She doesn’t understand why politicians set themselves up to do stupid things.

Do they like all the negative press they get or are they just doing it to draw attention to themselves? She started working on the cartoon rough draft and slowly refined what she wanted to construct to get her message across. Some of the popular news agencies will be interested in this particular cartoon.

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