Temporary placement.

Andy awoke the next morning feeling re-energized and bit chipper than usual. He removed the covers to stretch his tired achy muscles, realizing how good it felt to be home after spending so much time away on tour. He got out of bed to stretch some more and get some new clothes to go take a shower and get ready for what he felt like would be a long day.

He headed down the hall to his bathroom and entered through the door. He grabbed a towel from his shelves and place his new clothes on a rack, then proceeded to undress completely and reached to pull the shower curtain aside.

Just then the door bell rang and he had to re-dress himself to go answer it. "Who could it be at 7 in morning?" Andy asked himself.

It was a man in a black suit with a note pad in his left hand. "Hello, I'm John Conners of the Missing Persons Association. I'm here about the boy you reported last night."

"Oh yes, come in. Can I get you anything to drink Mr. Conners?" Andy asked heading toward the guest room.

"No thank you, I've had enough to drink this morning, but I do need to use your bathroom"

"Right down the hall, last door to your left." Andy continued towards where Kyle was supposed to be.

"Kyle, a man is here to..." to Andy's surprise there was no Kyle.

"Aaaahhhhhh!" a scream came from the direction of the bathroom. Andy rushed out of the room into the hall and saw Mr. Conners holding his pants up pointing into the bathroom. "There's a dirty boy in your bathtub!"

"What?!" Andy asked in disbelief and with a blush at what could have happened earlier had Conners not rung the door bell. Andy walked up to the doorway and looked in to see Kyle peeking over the tub at him and Mr. Conners.

"Kyle, what are you doing in the tub not taking a bath?" Andy asked curiously.

"Sleeping." Kyle said sheepishly

"Sleeping, what about the bed I made you?!" Andy asked shocked.

"It was uncomfortable." Kyle retorted.

"Uncomfortable? Then why... never mind." Andy asked waving his hand as if to shake the question away.

"Get up. This man has some questions to ask you."

"Ok." Kyle said getting up out of the bathtub.

"Is that chocolate syrup on your shirt? And grape juice on your collar?" Andy asked Kyle.

"Yeah, I got "hungry" when I couldn't get to sleep."

Andy thought it over for a sec. "Oh well, I haven't been here in a month or two, so most of that stuff was ruined and I need new groceries any ways."

"The sour patch kids weren't." Kyle said back.

"What?" Andy said quickly.

"Well, I don't know about either of you, but I would like to get this over with." Mr. Conners said growing impatient.

"Ok, lets go to the living room." Andy ordered.

As soon as they sat down, the man started to ask Kyle some questions. "So Kyle, can you tell me where it is you live or your guardian lives?"

"I don't remember."

"Who was your guardian?"

"I don't know."

"How did you end up out in the woods where Andy found you?"

"I can't remember."

"Ok, how old are you?"

"Now "that" I did know, I don't know how, but I knew." "Seventeen."

The man began to take notes after each answer Kyle gave him.

"Do you remember anything else before Andy found you?"

"No, that's it. I'm sorry, there's nothing else." Kyle said looking at Andy, then back at Mr. Conners.

"I felt helpless. They were trying to help me, but I had to help them first. Which I couldn't do."

The man read over his stuff twice. "I think he has a slight case of amnesia I'm afraid."

"Amnesia, partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness. I can't remember if any of these happened to me, so I couldn't tell them." Kyle thought to himself. "Well, I guess that's all I can do for now. I'll call you if anyone reports him missing or otherwise." Mr. Conners said to Andy. "I'll find someone to take him off your hands for you if you want." "No... I mean. What do you want to do Kyle?" Andy asked looking at Kyle. "I... I want to stay with Andy." Kyle replied. Mr. Conners looked at Kyle, then at Andy. Andy nodded his head in response. "Well then it's settled, you're his temporary guardian until we can get this all worked out and find his legal guardians. Ok?"

"Ok." Andy said as Mr. Conners got up to shake his hand.

"Just sign here and here and I'll be on my way." Conners held out a slate with a document on it in front of Andy.

"We'll keep in touch." Conners said as he left out the front door.

As soon as he left Andy turned to Kyle and looked him up and down to study the mess Kyle had made of his hand-me-downs. "Well, looks like we need to get you some new clothes if your gonna be staying here and since you ruined those." Andy said eyeballing Kyle's shirt.

"I didn't mean to... I'm sorry." Kyle said holding his head down.

"It's ok." Andy said putting his hand on Kyle's shoulder and giving him a reassuring smile.

"The moment he touched my, my heart began to race and when he smiled at me, it only raced faster. These feelings confused me and I wondered if they were natural."

"I'm gonna go take a shower and you'll need one when I'm finished apparently. After that we'll go shopping."

Kyle just nodded real fast and watched Andy walk off to the bathroom. He had a feeling this was going to be an interesting experience.

"Shopping?" Kyle just muttered to himself. Thinking about it excited him deep down and wondered what it would be like.