Friday, September 4, 2015

The Job Pickup, part 4 (9-4-15)

At some point on the 3rd, I’d turned off my phone to conserve battery because I didn’t know when we’d be able to charge it again. I turned it on at 10:37 AM on SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 and…

MAKAYLA
Where you guys at?
(10.44 AM) Sigyn

ME
Walking to Richmond, Cody never showed.

Turned my phone off again, then turned it on at 12.23 PM and…

MAKAYLA
We thought y’all got a room

(YES, OKAY, YOU THINK WE GOT A ROOM, WITH ALL ZERO DOLLARS THAT WE TOLD YOU WE HAD?? THAT'S VERY PLAUSIBLE.)

Hello
I’m on my way up

ME
We’re at the Richmond marina.

MAKAYLA
What?! He called yesterday and said y’all were in the truck on your way back

ME
Trying to send you a selfie of me at the marina
(12.36 PM) Tbh I think he got frustrated and gave up chasing us, then told you we were there so you wouldn’t worry

MAKAYLA
He said he was loading y’all up

ME
No, we never saw him.
We spent the day trying to hitch a ride out of state, then gave up and crashed under a bridge by the interstate…

MAKAYLA
That’s what he said yesterday he hasn’t come home yet
I’m packing and I’ll be on my way

ME
Woman, you’re not coming to Richmond, we’ll be gone before you get here, we’re only staying long enough to charge my phone and we’ll be on our feet again.
I tried to send you some pics of where we are in the meantime through Messenger but my phone is being a derp.
Check Facebook Messenger, the pics went through.

Now I'll take you to the conversation that took place on Facebook Messenger.

Sigyn Wisch


Makayla Marie, 12.55 PM
,I'm on my way

Sigyn Wisch


I'm giving you fair warning that we will probably not be here by the time you get here.
I mean, we literally just stopped here to charge our phone.

1:06pm
Makayla Marie
I'll manage
I need to do d codu

Sigyn Wisch
What?

Makayla Marie
I need to find cody

Sigyn Wisch
Okay. He hasn't contacted us at all since yesterday early afternoon

Makayla Marie
Same here he said he was loading y'all up a d haven't herd since

Facebook Messenger stopped working for me, so I switched back to texting.

ME
(1.14 PM) I want to know who he’s got, since it blatantly isn’t us.

MAKAYLA
I’m worried

ME
Yeah, I mean, there’s a fair few people who vaguely resemble Loki, and if Cody picked up some random guy with dreads and a white chick, they might not be on the up and up.

MAKAYLA
May e

ME
Well, he’s ex-navy, right? He’s probably fine. We got a good look at the people in Berkeley and they’re pretty harmless.

MAKAYLA
Idk

ME (losing patience with Makayla’s insistence on panicking over EVERYTHING and don’t you dare accuse me of being ableist, because I suffer from anxiety and a hodgepodge of less relevant disorders)
Seriously, they’re frail as fuck. If he really is a vet and picked up the wrong people, he’ll be fine.

MAKAYLA
I hope

ME, 2.01 PM
Last message I sent him was round 10:40 yesterday morning, sorry, not early afternoon. It said: “Okay. We are at Sixth & University, flying a sign in front of Corepower Yoga.” Then about an hour later, Loki moved us to a back alley, had me rest, and went for a cart for our stuff. We wound up by Gilman & Eastshore, stayed there for the night under a bridge, and then left Berkeley in the morning.
(2.10 PM) You get any of that?
(2.51 PM) Makayla?

MAKAYLA
Driving

ME, 3.34 PM
Leaving Marina Bay

(6.50 PM) Hope you find him okay. We’re turning in for the day, at Atchison Park in Richmond.

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