Hampton, 12/05/2012. 08:00.Nathaniel was just getting ready to sleep when he heard his phone ring. He own the last top of the line Iphone that his grandmother give him. She always says that if he doesn"t own the best of the best, that would reflect badly on his family, that"s why his phone, laptop and clothes were all top of the line.
He was awake all night last night because he was busy settings up and deleting email address which he was using to mail information to media group in the US and to the tribunal international of LaHaye. The truth was that none of what he was doing would be possible for him if not thanks to the CIA. They get Marc killed and he had very strong emotions about that but they teach him many things too. Skills that Nathaniel hope he would never have to use but valuable skills nonetheless.
Hacking and settings up disposable, non traceable email address was falling in that category. He even thought to link this email to the CIA Headquarters in Langley as a little payback but thought better of it. That was simply not worth it to do. He knew that Marc wanted to be avenge and the people involved in his death be punish but he was too loyal to his country to do it. He could hurt the agency with his skill, he knew that but he couldn"t do it without hurting his country in the process and that would not sit well with him. Not after everything he did to protect it, not after the sea of blood he spill to protect it.
Back to the phone call that he was receiving it was weird because almost n.o.body knew his number. He had only seven people contact number memorise in it and only the same number of people knew his number, six of whom were currently in the mansion, that leave actually only one person to call him. Taking his phone and looking at the number ID, his guess happen to be right.
"Hi Taylor, you are up early, what"s up?"
"Nathaniel! Have you heard?" She exclaimed.
"Heard what?"
"That"s on every radio, news site and magazine since last night! You really don"t know?"
"She"s talking about the Caldwell case? no that"s not possible. Even if i screw up one of the delay timer in one of the email, that would be way too soon to publish it. What the h.e.l.l are she talking about?" He thought furiously.
"Wait, i send you a link." She said and a few seconds later, he receive a link which he click on.
He got sent to a news site where in the t.i.tle people could read. "Taylor new boyfriend, exclusive picture."
"WTF!" Explode Nathaniel on the phone.
On the site he could see a few picture where he was with Taylor on the party last week. In fact, only two picture was on the site. The first one was when he murmur on Taylor hear, the scene hinted to an intimate relationship. The other one was when they were hugging after the song, the picture look to be taken by a phone on both occasion. He read quickly through the article, it wasn"t even saying his name!
"I know, sorry about that. They do this every time i am with a man, it"s driving me nuts. I"m really sorry for you, i"m not the best friend to have around i know" She said in a deprecative voice.
"Don"t worry about it, i know that you are really famous, i knew what i was engaging myself when i decide to be friends with you.I don"t really care what people think or say about me you know" He said with a laugh, soothing her worry.
"Thanks for that but that was not the princ.i.p.al reason why i am calling you, scroll down and look."
Doing just that, he notice a link which send him to Youtube. He click on it and was sent to the Youtube channel of one the talk show or the network "CBS". Probably the one who release it.
He launch the video and could listen to his own voice. The quality wasn"t that great but he thought it sound pretty good. He notices something that made him freeze and leave his mouth wide open. The video has over one million views and was trending on Youtube with over 5 thousand comment. Once he overcame his shock, he start reading to the comment. People was saying that he sing well, other say he was handsome and the other say that this was garbage. The most comment he found was congratulating him and wanted to know where they could buy it.
"My G.o.d… this is unbelievable!" Said Nathaniel full of awe.
"I told you people were going to love it! And this is the first version! When we are going to release the second version, it would blow their minds!" She said joyfully.
In the past week, they were meeting each other everyday in the afternoon to work on it. It was he"s much needed break from the atrocities he was looking into. He could not wait that this period end to focus on his music for a while. Somethings could not be help and he promise to himself to act when the situation needed it.
"You are right! I can"t wait to show them the final result! This is my first song and i want it to be perfect!" He said enthusiastically.
"I know! Trust me that i know!" She said with a laugh.
Nathaniel was always flexible but with this song he was uncompromising. The lyrics of it would not be touch for exemple, thing that Taylor admit it was best since they had a purity that none could match. Now they were talking and experiencing about the melody and the instrument they would incorporate in the song. The conversation would sometimes be hard but Taylor was experience enough to not care. Like she often said, she work with author and singer who were far worse than him.
"Sorry to be a handful sometimes." He said apologetically.
"None taken, i"m a handful too and you know it." She respond, brushing his concern away.
"Want to meet for lunch before we locked ourself in the music room?"
"Sound good, Meet you later."
"Later Taylor." He said before hanging up and going to sleep for a few hours.