Alyssa says, “That bastard planned this and waited. There’s no way he could have arranged this yesterday.”
As she sets down heavily I tell her, “Alyssa I have a law firm in LA that I have under retainer. I’ll have them at your disposal. They’ll perform anything you need done with the divorce. If you want to you’re always welcome to stay here as long as you need. I’m sorry to tell you this but under that contract it’s for both of you to maintain residence there. If you want to stay there I’ll rewrite the contract for you only. But right now Edward is out of a job. There is six months termination pay under the contract that you are entitled to no matter what you decide. I’m more than willing to have you move here to help Mom. If you decide to do that, I’ll change your contract to this location without Edward.”
When we didn’t immediately return Kathryn, Mom and Joan come looking for us. They find us in the entryway as Joan sits on the bench beside her mother. Joan asks, “Mom what’s wrong?”
Alyssa hands the envelope to Joan, unable to maintain her composure any longer she throws herself into my arms and sobs uncontrollably. Joan opening the envelope reads the papers and immediately notices it is a suit of divorce from her father. Joan drops the paperwork and is immediately held by my Mother as she cries. Kathryn moves beside me and helps to comfort Alyssa.
We eventually make her way back to the kitchen Alyssa and Joan are much more subdued. I pull Kathryn then Mom over and tell them what I had offered Alyssa. Mom shakes her head yes Kathryn only thinks a moment before she says brightly. I think I need a personal assistant and Joan can have a job. Or we can teacher how to trade.
The doorbell rings again its nine o’clock, Marshall and Misty are there. Misty asks, “Who was in the strange car they came here earlier?”
Picking up the discarded envelope and returning the papers I tell them, “It was a process server, Alyssa’s husband, who didn’t come with her, filed for divorce. It’s obvious is something he had planned for a while. This way he knew she would be out of the house. It gives him all the opportunity to move his belongings from the residence. I am almost afraid he will completely clean out the house nothing they own will remain.”
Misty looks at us with anger at us for nothing we did she says, “Men can be such assholes.”
I ask, “Misty did Marshall do anything wrong?”
Angry Misty says, “He stole the covers. I woke up cold in the middle of the night.”
I inform Misty, “I hate that about Kathryn too, but I found out if I sleep beside her she will not take the covers away.”
Marshall says, “I don’t remember doing it, it’s not something I would do if I weren’t asleep.”
I look at the two of them; Misty is acting mad at Marshall. Marshall is trying to make up for it, he’s being very affectionate. “I bet in six months you two won’t even remember what started this fight. But the fight will either determine if you make it or not. Sure Marshall is trying to tell you he’s sorry, and Misty you’re enjoying it, too much.” Misty shoots me and angry look for letting the cat out of the bag. “You two need to learn not to sweat the small stuff. Okay Marshall rolled over in his sleep and took the covers with him. It happens. It’s not like he got up in the middle of the night and pulled them off you. Did he?”
Misty says, “I think he was sound asleep so no, he didn’t. I’m just mad he moved away from me.”
Laughing Kathryn says, “It took six months for me and JJ to really get comfortable sleeping with each other. But now I can’t sleep without him.”
Marshall was unaware that Kathryn and I had been living as man and wife for quite a while asks, “How long have you two been…” Misty elbows him stopping him from completing his question.
Kathryn giggles at the two before saying, “The two of you aren’t cops and I don’t care if you two know, but as far as anyone else is concerned two nights ago. You’re my friends and I’m not lying to you JJ and I have been sleeping together for fifteen months now.”
Marshall grins before he realizes something as his expression changes he says, “Shit, I won the damn pool. But I’ll never be able to collect it.”
Laughing I say, “That’s the problem with having a pool like that. Publicly I couldn’t confirm that you won.”
Marshall complains saying, “The pool was over $2000 at the time.”
Kathryn asks, “What is this pool you’re talking about?”
Misty says, “The pool that I won, everyone was betting on when you and JJ would have sex. I put down your 14th birthday, and because you got married everyone stopped guessing and accepted it is a fact.”
Kathryn questions, “How much was in the pool?”
Misty pulls out an envelope from her purse looking through it she says, “About $8000.”
Kathryn laughs, “I guess Misty can buy lunch today.”
Before going into the kitchen I asked Marshall and Misty, “We’re going to have another person in class today, her name is Joan. She’s both Kathryn’s and my friend. We’re going to distract her, because her father just asked for a divorce. Can you to help with that?”
Misty says for them, “We’ll be happy too.” Marshall started to say something but thinks better of it and kisses Misty on the cheek.
We walk into the kitchen and I introduce Marshall and Misty to Joan and Alyssa. Alyssa says, “My son is still asleep JJ didn’t run him off the PS3 last night.”
Grandma comes in a little sleepy she says, “Johnny is pretty good at Mario kart it took me six races to beat him.”
Kathryn giggles, “That’s always been your favorite game too.”
Grandma giggles, “I could beat you at it any day, and you know it.” Kathryn throws her hands up in mock surrender. Grandma pulls Kathryn into a hug and the two giggle.
Mom asks, “Are you four trading today?
I answer, “Yes and I decided to offer Joan classes too, if she’d like to learn how to trade.”
Joan with wide-eyed excitement to her expression says, “Really you want to teach me how to be a stock trader.”
Kathryn giggles, “Sure, we can teach you.”
We eat our breakfast, although Joan seems a little too excited to eat. Once we finish, the older women run us off to trade. I create Joan’s account like I had for Marshall and Misty. I sat down with Joan and quickly go over the basics having her by some of the furniture stock like Marshall and Misty had. I added an extra $40,000 to her account to bring her up to even with them. I explained that today we’re going over day trading, short-term trades were not looking at buying stock to hold as an investment. Watching and work the swing that stock often have. Some stocks can change 30 or 40 points over a single day. If you catch it right you can make quite a lot in just a few days’ time.
We check a stock is fluttering up and down on news of a new product it’s due to release. I also noticed stock is near the point at which it splits. They may hold that off until the stock becomes more stable, I think that’s unlikely the corporation has never in the past waited more than a day after reaching their split point. Some quick research and I find the management team hasn’t changed.
I’ll research a few underground websites that have gotten hold of the product ahead of time. The first rate the reviews and the item as outstanding. I never trust just one of the sites and search through four or five to find a good average on a product. It’s a good thing I did the one site has is outstanding but four others rate it as poor. We began a search for another stock when Marshall suggests commodities and Kathryn says “I know the right one.”
Switching screens we can buy commodities from the same trading site we’re using for stock. Kathryn says watch this commodity here would drop ten more points at that point we should buy. When a set point Kathryn has determined we have automatic traits go in purchasing five hundred thousand dollars for us and seventy-five thousand dollars for each of our three students. In twenty minutes is climbed back up forty points and still climbing Kathryn says at seventy points we sell. Once it hits that we sell. Then we find two more commodities Kathryn rolls our students and us in.
Commodities are something you watch every second. They are much faster in a swing time that stock are. By the end of the trading day we’re more or less exhausted but Kathryn I started out with point five million in a commodity market side by the end of the day we had fourteen and three quarters million. Our three students are ecstatic realizing their now millionaires.
I look at everyone and say, “This was a very good day for us. You never know how many you’re going to get but will try again and see if we can double your money next week. By the way we should move a little back into a long-term stock as a hedge.”
Marshall, Misty and Joan listen to what I have to say, I show them utility stocks that have a higher rate of return per stock. We move a million from each of them into the stock. That should give them more than enough money considering today they started with seventy-five thousand and work it up to over two million as we caught the swings just right.
Kathryn asks, “Joan, you still want to go water skiing?”
Marshall and Misty say simultaneously, “water skiing.”
Kathryn looks at them says, “Sorry I forgot to ask you. Would you guys like to go water skiing too?”
Joan says. “Sure, I love to if I knew how.”
Marshall says, “Now that’s one thing I can teach you.”
Misty says, “Marshall has trophies from when he was in his early teens for competitive waterskiing.”
I say, “I can pilot the boat, waterskiing isn’t something I’m good at.”
Kathryn giggles, “He tried it for over two hours and could never get his feet under him.”
Marshall says, “Want to try it again JJ?”
I shake my head no and say, “Everyone has to be bad at something. It might as well be waterskiing for me.”
Kathryn giggles, “It was funny watching you for the first fifteen minutes or so, but after that it was just too painful.” I shake my head yes, it’s not something I want to repeat anyway.
Misty whispers something to Kathryn, and Kathryn goes to one of her drawers pulls out a bikini and hands it to Misty. Kathryn opens another drawer and pulls out a pair of swimming trunks. Joan leaves to go downstairs to dress in her bikini in her room. Misty pulled Marshall into our bathroom to change. After they have changed they walk to our boat. Kathryn and I change and catch up to them.
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