Lifeplans - Part One

Chapter 1

I stared at the multiple papers in front of me and groaned. Being a lawyer was crazy, but at least I was pretty rich for now and being here only for 2 years. It only took the people around 5 months to realize I was one of the good lawyers that actually shows up for work and the cases in court. Not all of them are so interesting, though, and along with the whacko people, as I remembered back to the time with the crazy wolf lady and all of her dogs and wolves. Man, now that was weird. And the 70 year old guy who claimed he was kidnapped by Michael Jackson when he was 10. Hard to believe because Michael Jackson wasn’t even alive then, so that would be pretty hard to accomplish - and how the guards had to drag the guy out of there and - thank god - no one had to get Michael Jackson involved.
I glanced up at the clock. 11:14. Still awhile for lunch at 12:30. I looked around and shifted through the papers of the many people who asked me to take previous cases that either worked out, didn’t, or were mental cases. I slowly picked up my laptop and proceeded to turn it on to get a bit of work done that I needed to when another person walked in with another case with another ton of papers to give me. At least I didn’t have any more papers to work on. Being a lawyer was great but the work wasn’t. It was interesting but way too much work. The man that came in with the case sat down and proceeded to hand me the paperwork. He started to talk. “Hello, my name is Dany, and I have a case about--” he said as the phone suddenly rang and I picked it up. Andrea, another client, talked fast with the sound of other people in the background. “The meeting, remember, Amy? You are going to be late since you are still in your office…” “NO!” I yelled, really surprised. “I am so sorry, I totally forgot…..and this is an important case, I will be there right away….if I am late, tell my boss that I was busy or something….”  Andrea agreed. “Ok” she said, “I will see you soon, bye!” as I slowly put down the phone, and quickly picked my stuff up. “I am so sorry, I have to leave….I have a meeting with a client” I said, looking at him. The guy had green eyes, like cat’s eyes. They were so pretty. I couldn’t but help recognize them. “That’s ok” he said. “I will call next time--” “No, that’s ok, I will call you. I shouldn’t be busy tomorrow if that’s ok.” “Thanks” he said, and walked out the door. I picked up my things but reality hit me again. I looked down at the paper to his name and caught his first name. “Dany” it said. I got my laptop and documents and walked out the door of my office and locked it when reality hit me again. “Dany” I said to myself. Spelled that same way, those green eyes-- No, it can’t be. That was so long ago. But his green eyes….that did look like him, but it must be someone else….I sure wish I caught his last name. Looking back through at my office I was about to unlock it when I realized I was already late so I quickly walked down the hallway and got to the garage where I parked my Mustang, and I got in it and drove off to the meeting.
I walked in the door and sat next to Andrea who was taking notes as the professor talked. I heard ‘new laws’ being mentioned as he passed down large packets on it and I groaned. I shifted through the pages and then said to Andrea, “How many unimportant things are they going to have to make us memorize?” Andrea stared at the packet and said, “I don’t know. And the thing is, I have these papers everywhere in my office, it’s a nightmare.” I don’t see why they can’t just update the new law dictionary and have us pay for them or something. It would be a whole lot easier.” I looked at the packet as the professor announced the meeting over and looked at my watch. Andrea got up and said, “See you tomorrow at the next meeting, bye!” and I said bye as well and walked back to my car and back to my office for lunch and to get a closer look at the paperwork and the case. “I just hope this isn’t another nutcase I have to deal with” I said, unlocking the office door.

Chapter 2

I took my lunch out of the fridge in my office and ate my lunch of a small salad and ham sandwich. I then walked over and stared at front page. There was Dany’s full name, Dany Annous, on the paper. I fell back in my chair and stared at the paper. “This is so….incredible….” I said, trailing off. It was him, I was pretty certain. I couldn’t believe it. I was so surprised and happy. I remembered back to the sad and happy moments and then remembered Megan and my best friend Hayley. A few tears fell from my eyes as I wiped them away and looked at the paper and read the case. It was about him suing.…his ex-girlfriend for stabbing him! My jaw dropped and I stared. “I am going to have to take this case” I said to myself. Right then I got a call. “Not again….” I groaned. “Don’t tell me I missed another meeting” I said, slowly picking up the phone. “Hello?” I said. “Hi, this is Miss Trinity, Julie’s teacher. I have seen that her grades have been decreasing lately and isn’t doing as well. I was wondering if you could come in for a conference.”  she said. I just stared at the wall and silently banged my head. “When will be good?” I said. “Today is ok if you are not busy.” the teacher said and I looked at my watch. “Ok…..I should be there soon.” I said, hanging up the phone. I moaned and picked up Dany’s documents and put them safely in my briefcase.
As soon as I got to the school it was 1:30 and I walked down the hallway and got to the office. I saw Ms. Trinity there. “Hello, I am Ms. Trinity, Julie’s teacher…” She said and talked on. She was a little shorter than me with her hair in a ponytail. Her hair was sort of long and she had deep brown eyes. She had pink glasses and was wearing a black t-shirt with a navy blue jean jacket, a knee low jean skirt, and black flat shoes. She kind of looked like my sixth grade teacher Ms. Riley, and she also looked a lot like someone else but I could not put my finger on it for the life of me. Ms. Trinity was a third grade teacher, the grade that Julie was in, and she was eight. I knew I was having problems with my husband Ryan and that may have been the cause. I was trying to think of where I knew Ms. Trinity from but I could NOT put my finger on it for the life of me. I kept talking to her while I was thinking. Finally, I looked around the office and to the file on the desk with Julie Michelle Corel’s name on it, Julie’s full name. Underneath was my name, Amy Corel, and under that was Ms. Trinity’s full name - Megan Trinity Rudolph. I stared, looked at Megan with a weird spellbound look on my face and then asked her. “Megan…..? Megan Rudolph?” Megan looked confused. “Yes?” she asked. “Ok, now, remember back to….err….2006 or 2007 or so…..do the names “Annie or Dany or Teeksie or MJ or Hayley or Skye ring a bell?” I said, staring and kind of laughing. She stared at me and fell off her chair. “OMG TEEKSIE WHERE NOOOO!” she said screaming while people started to look at her from the office door. “Uh….Megan, it’s me, Annie, NOT TEEKSIE!” I said as Megan started to act calm. “You are just as crazy as when you were 12!” I said. She stared at me and proceeded to glomp me and I looked at her and hugged her back. “Heh….” I said, smiling. Megan looked at me. “HOW COME YOU AREN’T HAPPIER! I AM!” Megan said, squealing. I stared again, laughing, as she started to sing the Best Friend song. I laughed my head off. “Well, dang this is weird….you need to see what I have too, it’s amazing, you’ll be very surprised, that’s if you remember. You should, though, if you went crazy when I said Teeksie!” We both laughed, picked up our stuff, and walked out.
As we got to the parking lot, I walked over to my car, my bright red Mustang. “My house isn’t far from here, so I walk home every day. I want a car, and I should be able to have one soon.” she stared at my Mustang and looked at me. “Lawyer, I suppose?” Megan said. “Good memory!” I said, shuffling through some stuff. “You got your job, and I got mine! I love my job, it’s just a LOT of work. How’s yours?” Megan looked around and then said, “I just started this fall, but the kids are fun. Third Grade is easy work. I haven’t seen any of my friends from Middle School in years, none of them!” “Me neither!” I said. “If you aren’t busy tonight, maybe you can come over and I can show you what is so important.” I looked at the papers again and put them away. “I am not busy, if you want, I can come over now! It would be awesome!” Megan said enthusiastically. “Ok! Awesome!” I said, putting my stuff in the car and getting in. Megan got in the other side as I put on my Panic! At The Disco CD and sung I Write Sins Not Tragedies with her as we drove off.

Chapter 3

“I have to go to my office first and pick up some mail and things, and we can look at the documents there” I said, driving to my office. “OOH DOCUMENTS WHAT FOR?” she said, acting hyper. “They’re a surprise!” I said, looking at the briefcase. “Come on, tell me! I want to see them….grr….” Megan said. “You are exactly like you were when you were 12! And you will get to see everything with me….I haven’t seen it all, but you are really going to flip out!” I said, laughing. “Grr, I want to see it now….” Megan said and laughed. We finally got to my office building and it was close to 5. “There is a Taco Bell right up the road, want to get some dinner and then go to the office and check this stuff out?” I said. Megan shook her head reluctantly. “Yay Taco Bell!” Megan said, as we went to order.
“You aren’t too busy later, are you?” I said. Megan shook her head. “I want to see your house, I bet it is awesome!” Megan said, now trying to talk between singing ‘But It’s Better If You Do’ by Panic! At The Disco. “So you still like old music too, I guess, right?” I said, staring at all of my old CD’s with My Chemical Romance, The All-American Rejects, and some of my other favorite bands as Megan kept singing. “Yes, Panic!’s music is still as awesome as ever!” Megan said. “You had never even heard of them before I told you!” I said, taking the food at the drive through and driving away back to my office. “Yeah, but they’re cool! I didn’t think so at first….” Megan trailed off as she shuffled through the bag of food. “You love all of that Japanese stuff. I liked Gravitation, but it didn’t strike me as interesting as other things did.” I turned the song on the CD to Camisado and started to sing as we got closer to the office. “But…..Anime is awesome! I like Japan better than America! I always have wanted to go there and maybe one day will….ok, I will be assured I do!” Megan said, looking as though she was thinking about something.
We got to the office building, and I grabbed my briefcase and some other files and took my Panic! At The Disco and other CD’s with me as Megan hopped out of the car with the Taco Bell bag. We walked to the elevator and went up to the third floor. I unlocked the door to my office and set down everything on my desk. Megan and I quickly ate and then I took the files out onto my desk and revealed a manila folder with a nice amount of documents in it to read and more forms to fill out. Megan looked at the folder. “What’s in it?” she said, throwing her trash away. I pulled the papers out of the folder and looked at them. “Okay, Megan, remember Dany?” I said, looking at her and glancing back to the paper. “You mean Danny Phantom?” she said, acting happy. “Uh….no….not DP….the other Dany, Megan. The Dany I knew. Well, you knew him too.” I said, staring at Megan. “Uh….” she said, trying to think. “I think so…..oh yeah….I remember him! You liked him! But I don’t remember too much. You talked about him a lot.” She said, looking at the papers. “So, what are the papers for?” Megan said, seeming more interested in them and what they were for. “He came in a few days ago with a case. I haven’t read up much about it, except I know it’s him, it’s his same full name. As soon as I saw him come in, and I found out his name was Dany, I knew it was him. He still has the same stunning green eyes he always has, and looked a lot like himself.” I looked further down the paper. “He’s in medical school now. Apparently, he wants to be a surgeon. But the case is even more interesting.” I looked at more of the papers. “What’s the case, and are you going to be his lawyer?” Megan walked over and looked at the papers. “It’s a huge case and of course I want to be his lawyer!”
I turned to the page with the case on it and read it to Megan. Megan’s jaw dropped. “He was stabbed by his ex-girlfriend? Well, that’s one big case!” Megan said, and I looked further down the paper. “He wants at least $ 20,000, along with pain and suffering. I can surely do that, and probably get more out of it as well. I have to call him tomorrow so we can work out the case a bit more. I didn’t have any time to talk to him at all today since I had an emergency meeting that I had forgotten about, so we’re doing the case tomorrow” I said, taking out the meeting documents I had forgotten about. I read over them, and then looked more at Dany’s documents. “It says his birth date is 5/11 - which is exactly my mom’s.” I said, looking up from the paper. “I remember that you told me about that….” Megan said, trailing off, now braiding her hair. I looked over at the trashcan, which was now basically overflowing from the Taco Bell food. “I need to go take out the trash, Megan, you can stay here, I will be back in a few minutes.” I picked up the trash bag and threw a few more things in, and grabbed a pile of papers that I didn’t need any more for recycling. I grabbed the keys for my office, and walked down the stairs to the alley.