I woke up the next moring pretty groggy to my alarm blaring. ugh. 6:00 am. Pretty sure I went to bed like two hours ago. I rolled out of bed, showered and got dressed and went on with my morning chores. My morning usually consisted of letting the horses out to pasture and mucking stalls, follwed by checking on the rescue, making sure that no one is missing or injured. 'shit' I thought 'I need to go into town and get feed for the animals'. I let the grains and hay get dangerously low this time. Hay I could make a phone call for, but grain was a different story, it required hoooking up the flat bed trailer to the truck and going into town for ungodly amounts of feed. 'Well I check up on Kelly and see if she wants to ride along, its almost one in the afternoon she should be rollin out of bed anyway'.

Annabelle: You awake? I need to do a feed run wanna come?

Kelly: Sure come get me.

Annabelle: Be there in ten.

I hooked up the flat bed to my pick up and rolled down the drive way to Kellys house. I also needed to stop and see Shannon while it was day light out. His house and his room mates creeped me out at night. A: they lived in, well lets say not the nicest part of town. B: He room mates were not to entirely friendly. And C: They were always having strange parties at night, random women that you have never seen before disappearing into rooms and shit.

Kelly: So where are we going?

Annabelle: I need to go to the Animal Nutrition Feeds and pile up on grain, and I need to go to Shannons to get some shit for Dom.

Dom was my brother. Every week I had to go to Shannons and pick up a duffle bag of whatever and take it to Doms shop. I didnt know what was in it, and frankly, I didnt want to know. But I did it because the cops were watching Dominic like a hawk and it was safer this way.

Kelly: Belles! You know that I hate his house, why didnt you tell me that in the first place? I would've stayed home.

Annabelle: My point exactly.

Animal Nutrition was ready for me, I back the trailer into the loading dock and the piled me with grains and pellets. And we were off to Shannons. The nieghborhood was fine during the day time, it was at night that the freaks came out. We drove slowly down the road and I noticed that the vacant house next door to Shans' looked like people were moving in.

Kelly: Bought time someone bought that heap of a house, its been sitting there forever.

Annabelle: yeah...

I answered her distantly starting at the house. It always gave me the creeps to. Big house, it had 9 rooms 6 bathrooms, all the floors were wooden, big pilliars on the outside, and totally reminded me of one of those stupid haunted houses they put up for halloween... Only this one was year round. I parked the truck across the street from Shannons, who was sitting outside on the steps waiting for me. This was about my usual time to show up.

Annabelle: Hey buddy!

Shannon: Whats good girl?

Annabelle: In town getting horse feed.

Shannon: *chuckles* The usual huh?

I laughed and nodded my head. He was a good kid, a real sweet heart. He opened up the door and motioned for me to come in. I turned around aburptly to face the house next door, only to see nothing there. I swear someone is watching me. I had that feeling, everyone knows that feeling when you're being stared at or observed.

Shannon: What are you looking at?

Annabelle: I thought someone was behind me...

Shannon: No one is there, I'm pretty sure they all went into town to get some stuff for the house.

I walked into the house and he folled behind me, shutting the door and walking into the room closest us.

Annabelle: So tell me about your new nieghbors?

Shannon: Nosey.

Annabelle: And?

Shannon: There are six of them. I haven't met them all. There is a red head Heath, and dumb bald moron Skip and a tall english guy Wade. I havent met any of the other ones.

I ran the words through my head a few times over and over "tall english man, Wade"... You have got to be kidding me.

Annabelle: Well thats interesting. Looks like no more of them wild parties eh?

Shannon gave me 'whatever' look and handed me the bag.

Shannon: There ya go sweetheart.

I nooded thanks to him and went to leave. This is the only time that his rooms mates were not around and I was not going to get stuck seeing any of them. I walked out the door shutting it softly behind me, and bounced down the steps towards the car.

Wade: Fancy seeing you here.

Oh my god. I was kind of hoping I could make it to the truck and be out of here before anyone had noticed I was there. I turned around slowly to see Wade the man from the club leaning against the pilliar of his new house.

Annabelle: uh... Yeah it is. You bought the hosue?

Wade: Yes.

Annabelle: Bought time someone bought it, been sitting on the market for months now. Fixing it up?

I was totally rambling. I was nervous and it showed, but what could I do?

Wade: The boys are in town getting materials for it. Thats sure a lot of bags you got there.

Annabelle: Yep. Gotta feed the horses.

Wade: Oh, of course. So... do you com ehere often?

Annabelle: No, about once a week.

Wade: To bad, I would like to see you more.

As he said that last sentence he began to take a few steps closer to me. I stood there, frozen and unable to move.

Annabelle: Why...?

Wade: You are a very intersting female, that I would like to know more about.

Annabelle: Well mabye we can get together some time... but I need to get this feed back to the ranch.

The moment it came out of my mouth I instantly regretted it. What was I thinking? I didnt know this man for anything.

Wade: Well how about dinner tomorrow?

Annabelle: Ok.

It was all I could say.

Wade: What is your number?

I told him and he punched it into his phone, a few seconds later my phone rang.

Wade: Now you have mine. I will pick you up at 6 tomorrow than?

Annabelle: Sounds good.

I turned and walked towards the truck to see Kelly in the passengers seat trying her hardest not to laugh. I crawled in and turn the desil engine over and took off from the house.

Kelly: Whose the hunky?

Annabelle: Wade.

I went on and reminded her of the drink and the story of the club last night and the parking lot and that we were going to dinner tomorrow because I couldnt say no.

Kelly: Oh my god! You have a date! That is soooooo exciting. I could get you all pretty and stuff and it will be fun.

I stiffled a groan as we drove back home. Great. As if picking up at Shannons was not bad enough on a weekly basis I now have him to deal with to. Of al the people to move into that hell hole, it had to be him. Wonderful.

Authors note: Next chapter is dinner and maybe something extra... Will wade take Annabelle back to her home? Or will She end up at one of Shannons roommates parties?