"No, Sally," Mara said, "Nick is not here to get me yet." She said to her friend over the phone. Mara O' Connor was at the New Orleans Airport. She was currently waiting on her cousin; Nick Gauntier, to pick her up and take her home to meet her aunt. "I better let you go so that I can call the number that Nick gave me." She said as she hung up on her friend. 'That girl talked my ear off half the day; I had to eat another lunch talking to her over the phone because I feel sorry for her. I am so glad my best friend never sees her doing that.' She thought as she looked through her phone directory until she finally found her cousin Nicks' number. She called the house number that Nick gave her, along with his cell phone number, but it was all to no avail because he didn't answer either number.
'Alright Nick,' she thought, 'Where in the world are you and why are you not answering me? I guess I'll have to call the emergency contact that he gave me.' She thought as she started rummaging through her purse for her phone book; finally finding it, she flipped through the pages until she found Kyrian Hunters' number in her book. She dialed the number and was greeted by a female voice, "Hello?" the woman asked. "Hello, my name is Mara O' Connor," Mara said, "I'm looking for Kyrian Hunter, may I speak with him please?" she asked politely. "I'm sorry, Mara, Kyrian's not here at the moment, I'm his wife, Amanda, may I help you?" Amanda asked. "Umm.., I'm not sure, I'm at the airport and I don't have a ride. I came here to find my cousin Nick Gauntier, but he hasn't picked me up and I'm stuck. He gave me this number in case of an emergency. I've tried calling him but I can't get him on either phone. I'm afraid he didn't even give me his address, if he had I would have took a taxi over there." Mara said as she heard movement in the background, "You might want to take a step or two from the place you are standing right now too." She said as she heard a crash and assumed that Amanda barely avoided getting hit with what sounded like a vase.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Amanda said, "My sister, Tabby, and her husband, Valerus, are over that way so I'll call her and see that they know to get you, alright? I would come get you, but my daughter is being extremely temperamental today and it would bring about a disaster if she left the house." She said as she picked her daughter up out of the playpen and set her down on the floor at her feet. "I'll have her pick you up out front. She'll be in all black knowing her." "Thank you, Amanda," Mara said, "Can you tell Tabby that I'm the short one? I'm only about 5'5." She said as she started walking to the front of the airport. "Sure thing, Mara," Amanda said, "I have to see to Marrissa; but they shouldn't be more than an hour to get to you, at the most that is." She said as she picked her daughter up, "If it gets dark before they get there go back inside. It can get very dangerous in that area this time of year." She warned before both hung up the phones.
"Poor Mara," Amanda said as her husband walked up to her and kissed her passionately. "Who's Mara?" her husband, Kyrian, asked. "Nicks' cousin, Mara O' Connor, I don't think that she knows that they are both dead yet. He was supposed to pick her up from the airport this morning. I'm going to get Tabby to pick her up." She said as she called her twin sister. "Hey Amanda," Tabby said as she answered, "What's up with my little niece?" she asked, expecting her to be in trouble for something or other. "Hey Tabb's," Amanda said as Kyrian took their daughter to get changed, "Your niece is in a tear everything apart mood. I was wondering if you could pick someone up from the airport. She is Nicks' cousin, Mara, and she doesn't know about his death as far as I know. He was supposed to pick her up this morning." She said as she explained everything that she knew, about Mara, to her sister.