Piper Leigh Matthews attempted to keep her eyes open for a few moments longer. She was watching one of her favourite TV Shows, one that she had been waiting to return for months. It was about 5:00 PM and she was already half asleep. That's what she gets for studying to be a lawyer as well as being a secretary for one of Florida's most renowned lawyers. Piper knew that she had a large price to pay when she wanted to get her foot in the door.

Not only was Piper attempting to put in hours of textbook studying, but she was forced to basically be a slave to possibly the meanest boss you could ever meet. Andrea Parker had been generous enough to hire Piper as her secretary, despite the fact that she was still studying to become a lawyer; which, all in all really did mean the world to 22 year-old Piper Leigh. But working for Andrea had been all but a walk in the park. Piper knew it would all be worth it in the long run, it just seemed to be impossible to handle at the current time.

The show's commercial had now begun playing and Piper could feel herself drifting to sleep. As her head began to slowly drop and her eyes began to close Piper knew she had to just suck it up. She still had at least another hour of studying to fit in before she could even think about sleeping. The brunette had decided she earned an hour of non-studying to watch the TV show. After all, she had basically cut herself off from civilization.

Piper quickly reached for her warm cup of coffee and began to slowly drain the hot liquid into her mouth. The Florida native rubbed her eyes and continued to read the book in front of her. Okay, so maybe she didn't entirely give herself a break. She followed along the page before she looked up momentarily to gaze out the window. Piper could have sworn she saw a medium sized dirty blonde dog running around in her front garden.

Piper peered out the window hoping to see the frame again, but instead she didn't. Piper narrowed her eyes before shaking her head slightly. "Great. All this stress and exhaustion is making you hallucinate, Piper." The beauty muttered aloud. "Oh, Wonderful, now I'm talking to myself as well." She huffed as she took another sip of coffee and began to read over the lines of text again.

A few moments later, she saw the frame out the corner of her eyes running around and moving towards her back fence. The brunette turned to the large window again and saw nothing. This was really beginning to get on the brunette's nerves. Letting a low huff escape her lips again, Piper Leigh prepared herself to read again. Stretching her arms out slightly, she let her eyes fall on the page again only to be interrupted by a loud bang.

"Okay, now I know I'm not going crazy!" Piper muttered as closed her book and stood up off of her couch, despite the TV show already returning. Piper made her way out to the front door in her grey track suit pants, a black tank top with a long-sleeved black cardigan on top and not to mention her pink ugg boots on her feet. Although the brunette's attire wasn't all that glamorous, her long dark chocolate locks were done to perfection in loose curls, as well as her make-up still put on perfectly.

Piper stepped over her recently cut grass as made her way past her window and towards the back fence. She noticed a gorgeous dog attempting to jump her fence, although had a lot of trouble. Luckily the dog didn't appear to have hurt itself.

"Hey, come here." Piper said softly to the dog as she leaned down slightly and padded the top of her thighs. The dog turned around and without hesitation ran into the brunettes lap waiting to be pat. Piper giggled and began patting the dog and rubbing his ears. "Aw, aren't you a cutie." Piper told the dog as he contently sat down in Piper's lap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his eyes glowing with happiness.

Piper could tell almost instantly that this dog was completely friendly. Piper was a fellow dog lover, and after the death of her Labrador two years ago, she never seemed to find the emotional strength to get another dog.

Piper eventually noticed the collar of the dog. She held the tag in her fingers and read it. "So you're Riggs, huh?" She spoke to the dog, who licked Piper's hand in reply. Piper giggled before reading the rest of it; turns out the owner's address was on it, and they actually lived a few houses down. "Well isn't that lucky. I guess we should get you home." Piper explained to the dog, before standing up and leading the dog inside her house. "Stay here, while I go get you a leash." She told Riggs, who sat down and waited for Piper to return.

Piper's dog, Daisy was about the size of Riggs and luckily she had kept all her toys, collars and even her leashes. Upon returning to Riggs, he immediately got up to his feet. Piper wasted no time in hooking the leash up to Riggs and leading him out to the street. Riggs seemed like a loving dog, and apart of her even wanted to keep him, but she knew she couldn't. His owner was probably be going mad looking and worrying about him.

In no time, Piper and Riggs had reached the owners home, which conveniently was only 5 doors down from hers. Piper led Riggs towards the door and knocked lightly, hoping the owner was home.


Ted was still seated on the end of the staircase. It had been about 40 minutes since Kristen had left, and he had no word from her. Ted hadn't done much at all in the 40 minutes. He had called his parents, hoping that maybe Riggs had somehow made his way there. He had texted Cody and Randy, tell them what was going on. He even texted Marys and Mike, another two close friends of his. The four of them all loved Riggs and he knew they'd probably want to know.

Ted sighed, running his fingers through his short hair once more as he shook his head. As he did this, he jumped at the sound of someone knocking on the door a few feet away from him. Ted swallowed, hoping that nothing bad was behind that door. Slowly pushing himself to his feet, he grasped the knob of the door and opened it. He closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again to see a stunning brunette standing there holding a leash; and attached to that leash was a perfectly content Riggs.

"Hi." Piper spoke as an incredibly handsome man stood in front of her. Piper was suddenly feeling extremely self-conscious in her attire. "Uhm, Is this your dog?" Piper asked bluntly, not seeming to beat around the bush. I found him in my front yard and his collar had this address on it…" Piper trailed off into to a silence as the man stood there.

Ted's jaw dropped slightly, unsure of what to say or think. Quickly he came to his senses and parted his lips to speak. "Yes, that's my dog. Thank you so much! You don't know how worried I've been." Ted explained to the beauty, who only smiled.

"I can imagine. He seems like a lovely dog." Piper responded with a fond smile as she noticed the man kneel down to pat the dog, who basically jumped into his arms and licked his face. "But here he is and gave him one last pat. Piper had began to turn and walk away but before she could be completely out of sight, she was interrupted by Ted.

"Oh Piper!" He shouted out to her as she began to make her way towards the pathway in front of his house. Piper's head jerked around to look at him. "Here's your leash back." Ted said as he held it up for the brunette. The brunette sighed with relief. She had almost forgotten it. Even though she didn't have Daisy to use the leash on, it still had a lot of sentimental value.

"Oh my god. Thank you." Piper breathed as she jogged up back up to Ted. Ted smiled and shrugged his shoulders at the beautiful brunette as he handed her the leash.

"No problem, it's the least I could do. Now are you sure you don't want to come in or something? I feel like I owe my life to you or something." Ted chuckled at how exaggerated he sounded. Piper laughed with him before shaking her head lightly.

"No it's alright. I actually have to get back home and make myself some dinner." Piper smiled. "But thanks for the offer, I really do appreciate it." Ted smiled in return before they both said their goodbyes again and Piper turned to walk away. Ted could only watch as the beauty walked back down the street.

Once she was out of sight Ted turned and closed the door. He looked down at Riggs and sighed. "You don't know how worried I was, boy." He told the dog as he gave him another pat. Ted stood up and began to walk towards the lounge room. "You also don't know how many people I have to call now that you're safe and sound." Ted sighed as he seated himself next to Riggs on the couch.


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