Text Chat
Zee: Can you ask Rachel to send over what she has on the Valentini-West case, please? She isn’t picking up my calls and I know she has issues with our cloud.
Parker: Will do. She’s having a slow day so it might not be today. Sommer started puking last night.
Zee: Oh! I hope she’s okay
Parker: I’m learning kids do this stuff.
Parker: They leak. A lot.
Parker: Hey, you have that fun coming to you in the future
Zee: Gee, thanks
Parker: At least you’ll have Rachel to advise you.
Zee: You’re right!
Parker: Tee said that your mother-in-law moved in recently
Zee: Yeah
Parker: How’s it going with her?
Zee: Fine. She’s nice :) Mostly, she hangs out with Ida and Callan though. You can tell she’s making up for lost time
Parker: Ohh. Tee told me that your father-in-law got the kids in the divorce but’s like the worst dad alive?
Zee: He sucks
Zee: Sorry if I’ve been quiet. It’s been crazy around here. This woman died in a hit-and-run and Colt got brought in for questioning.
Parker: This small town of yours isn’t as boring as I thought it would be.
Parker: Arson and vehicular manslaughter… it’s all go.
Zee: It’s no NYC, but it’s interesting.
Zee: The vehicle used in the accident was abandoned on our ranch.
Parker: YOUR ranch, huh?
Zee: Shut up. I could have been talking about the Bar 9.
Parker: You weren’t though, were you?
Zee: ANYWAY
Zee: The only reason Colt wasn’t arrested was because we were having lunch together at the time.
Parker: He doesn’t seem the type.
Zee: To hit someone and run?
Zee: Of course not. He’s innocent.
Zee: Callan’s had a bit of a meltdown too
Parker: What kind of meltdown? Is he okay?
Zee: He built a security system for the ranch but there was no footage of the truck being dumped. We tried to tell him that it’s impossible to secure four hundred thousand acres, but Callan didn’t take that well.
Zee: He’s barely been sleeping or eating as he brainstorms a solution.
Parker: Shit. It’s always the innocent who suffer the most in these cases.
Zee: Ugh, so true. There’s no solution either. You can’t install cameras in the middle of nowhere. There’s no point. Wind could knock them over or cattle would ram into the posts. He’s just going to have to learn to deal with the holes in his security. :/
Zee: As it stands, he’s come up with an army of drones that monitor the land, lol.
Parker: Hello, dictatorship.
Zee: *cackles*
Zee: My blood sugar’s been all over the place too. I don’t know what Tee did when she set my alerts as a crying baby but I can’t change it. It’s annoying as hell.
Parker: Precisely why she did it. Are you okay?
Zee: Just stressed.
Parker: Unlike you. You didn’t even get stressed when Nyx was arrested on a murder charge!
Zee: I’m wired for those situations :P
Parker: Cool and calm under pressure more like lol.
Zee: Speaking of… when was the last time you heard from Tee?
Parker: Today lol. Why?
Zee: She’s not talking to me outside of making sure I’m eating something.
Parker: Why not?
Zee: Because I told her I was Colt’s alibi and I won’t give her the details.
Parker: o.O
Zee: And she had another shitty hookup the other night lol
Parker: She’s taking your leaving weird. I mean, she’s always been an oddball, but she’s stranger without you around.
Zee: *snorts*
Parker: I think it’s the genius in her
Zee: Maybe. Colt said after he met her that she reminded him of Callan
Parker: He’s smart?
Zee: Has an IQ of 159
Parker: That means dick. IQ tests inherently have more holes in them than a net
Zee: Perhaps, but he can back his shit up.
Parker: Oh?
Zee: Someone from MIT came to talk to him lol… Something about a free ride. They don’t do that for just anyone, Pee. Not when the kid sucks at sports too.
Parker: NO! I like my name! I’m not Pee!
Zee: :P
Zee: How’s Tee doing?
Parker: You noticed we’re both more worried about her than we are about either of us? Ya know, the girlies with agoraphobia and an arranged marriage?
Zee: She’s alone in the Big Apple. We’re not.
Parker: She could come to me if she needed to.
Zee: Not the same as having someone across the apartment lol
Parker: True. It’s a shame I’d prefer to hit myself over the head with a hammer than live in the city
Zee: Wow
Parker: *shudders* I hate it there
Zee: How’s Sweet Lips?
Parker: Missing me. He’s coming to Rachel’s tomorrow. Can’t wait to see him.
Zee: I’ll expect you to go quiet then. :P
Parker: Never let it be said that you’re not a wise woman.
Zee: Do me a favor? Text Tee and tell her I had sex with him.
Parker: Two mins
Zee: Lol. I have an incoming call. Speak later 3