Chapter 45

Sinking heavily back onto the bed, her fuzzy brain listed: San Francisco, A formal evening dress, an overnight bag or maybe a weekend or an entire week bag. Be ready to go by one o’clock…

Then she was suddenly lurching into panic mode and using her phone to call Megan.

“Megan, you have to talk to Louis for me” she wrung out urgently.

“Louis?” Megan repeated. “Oh, my…what’s wrong”

“Nothing… I mean… I gotta quit my job at the cheesecake shop. I’d call him myself but I don’t think there’s time. It’s also not fair to him to keep on missing my shifts so I have to quit” Vivian said, already feeling the chill of alarm skate down her spine. “I’ll send him a message later and call him, but for now, I’m going to San Francisco…”

“San Fran… what? Why?” Megan stammered.

“Work” Vivian replied simply.

“Oh, is Scott McCall taking you there?”

“Yes”

“Oh wow. That’s nice. I’m sure Louis will understand. That is so cool… Take a brave pill before you