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from friends’
house to friends’ house, until he finally left school at seventeen to
get his GED, and then he started to work as a carpenter.
    Although being able to walk away from a fight, he was a
hard head, and had countless assault charges on him. Most of
which he persuaded the pursuer to have dropped, but a few had
caught up to him. He spent six months in the county jail when he
was just twenty years old. He also had a driving record of an
animal, that had gotten him locked up after he had racked up
enough points on his license from speeding tickets, which was
topped off when he got his first DWI at the age of 21. He spent
three more months in county jail.
His boss was eager to take him
back, considering how hard of a worker he was, and also because
his boss was the father of one of his closest friends, Tie.
    When Joey was twenty-three, Tie convinced his father, Ted
to take on one of Joey’s blueprints. After the completion of the
first house, on Lake Mandala, the design set forth and was
redesigned in rich areas all over the country.
Joey was twentyfour when he received the money from his design that set Ted’s
company ahead in zero’s. It was enough for Joey to start his own
business, and bring his next blueprint to life. Joey had invested
almost all of the money into the land and material needed to bring
his architecture to life. He also took at a small loan from the
county bank to help the funding.
    Considering the success with his first blueprint, he was sure
once the house he was working on now on Lake Romantica, in
Candlewood was finished, the design would take hold. He then
would be sitting on enough money to be able to fund his next
blueprint. Of course he didn’t have the funds to just sit back and
watch the house come to life. At just a few months passed twentysix, Joey was the general contractor on the job, also putting in a lot
of man hours in labor.
    He had his dreams set for him. He had enough money
saved away for rent, food, and recreational hobbies. He also had a
savings account going from when he first started working at
seventeen. Joey was doing well enough in the finical department,
but he wasn't where he wanted to be accept love in his life. Still,
he couldn’t stop thinking about Gabriella, and finally stopped
contemplating on going out. He called up Tie and asked if he was
up for a night around Mandala, and he was.
    Gabriella was still thinking of the silver mustang she saw,
and the image of her Mr. Mysterious was still clouding her mind,
while she started to get ready for a night out with Jemma, Sara and
Joesphine. The plan was to start at start at Mackenzie’s, and end at
Cascades, where they would all go onto the boat with the boys they
had met the night they went swimming. Gabriella wanted to go
out deeply, she wanted the chance to see Mr. Mysterious again.
After all, she was young, vivacious, hot and dangerous. She felt a
girl like her should be out partying as if it were here right in life.
    All the girls met at Gabriella’s, piled into Sara’s car, and
drove over to Mackenzie’s. They were all in a good mood, singing
loudly to a new hit on the radio. Gabriella was off in her thoughts
again. She was wondering if she would see her Mr. Mysterious out
at the bar.
“Wow this place is packed.” Sara said, pulling into Mackenzie’s.
“Yay!” Josephine said. All the girls loved a big crowd.
“I thought Cascades would have the larger crowd tonight.” Jemma
said, in a suspicious tone. “Maybe we should head over there.”
“No I love crowds.” Gabriella said. She then heard the chatter of
the other girls agreeing.
    Gabriella hadn’t yet noticed, but Jemma had spotted Joey
and Tie standing outside of the bar. Tie was many inches shorter
then Joey at Five foot seven. He had dark curly, red hair, and
brown eyes. He wasn't on par with Joey's looks and was an
awkwardly, cute looking man.
“I hate Mackenzie’s when it’s packed, it’s so hard to buy a