When I awoke earlier that morning I found out that I was completely alone. As I stood and stretched I could hear a voice coming from the next room. I walked in to find Lisa on her cell-phone, leaning against the counter with her feet crossed at the ankles. She gave a me a big smile and the one-minute signal before continuing her conversation. As she talked on her phone I couldn't help but study her, and feel completely jealous might I add. Lisa was basically every guy's dream girl. She had that fun loving, flirty personality, long blonde hair, mint green eyes and a body that any girl would kill her. Of course not to mention her perfect tan. Everything about her was perfect, right down to her manicured toenails!

I felt so blah next to her. I never really thought I was ugly, but I was definitely no beauty queen either. I had shoulder-length brown hair with some blonde highlights (fake ones might I add), light blue colored eyes, and, well, a body that you wouldn't see wearing a bikini or any other skimpy clothes for that matter. Not that I'm really fat or anything, but I'll admit that I do have a little bit of a tummy on me. What can I say? I enjoy eating.

"Don't worry, Duane. You'll get the guy. Yea, she's up right now, so I'll talk to you later. Love you." With that, Lisa snapped her phone shut, "Mornin, sunshine " She chirped, brightly

"Ugh, what time is it?" I yawned

"Almost six-thirty."

"Almost? Six-thirty? I'm never up at this ungodly hour " I groaned at her, "So what happened to Duane Lee and Leland?"

"Oh, they got a call at about four this morning with a hot lead on one of the guys they've been after, so they to rush outta here. Speaking of Leland..." She giggled, "Did something happen between the two of you last night? You looked pretty cozy this morning."

Even though nothing had happened I could feel my face getting hot.

"No, nothing happened."

"Yea, ok." She laughed at me.

"I'm serious!"

"Alright. If you insist." She said in a little sing-song voice.

I rolled my eyes before I started digging around in Leland's cupboards for something to eat. It wasn't too long after that the guys came back. They hadn't caught their guy, so they were pretty pissed.

"He's the night-owl type. So we're gotta head back out around 9 or so." Leland told us

That would mean that I would be on baby-sitting duty tonight while they were out hunting their guy. We hung around the apartment a little longer before Leland took me back to Dog and Beth's. When we got there we sat in his truck for a little bit and talked.

"So did you have fun last night?" He asked

"Yea, it was great. I haven't really gone out or done anything fun since you guys picked me up."

"I kinda figured. Well, I had fun last night. Hopefully maybe sometime soon you and I can go out and do something together."

Wait a sec, did he just ask me out?

"That'd be great." I blurted out.

He smiled before telling me that he was gunna head out to the gym and that he'd see me later on tonight. I thanked him for the fun evening before hopping out of the truck and heading inside the house.

I expected to be bombarded by all sorts of questions from Lyssa and Beth, but you could tell that they were in serious mode for the hunt later tonight. Before I knew it, it was eight and everybody was at the house planning out what was going to happen tonight. Calling informants and getting leads as to where he might be. They headed out a little before nine telling me that they didn't know when they'd be back, but they would call in and check on us. Shortly after they left I got the kids their bed-time snacks and had them in bed around nine forty-five.

It wasn't long after that, that I fell asleep on the couch watching television. When I woke up, the house the was a lot darker then usual. I checked the lights, and when they didn't come on I figured it was just a temporary power outage and didn't think anything of if. Thankfully, the moon was fairly bright that night, so I didn't have much trouble seeing. I went upstairs to check on the kids to find them all still asleep. I headed back downstairs and swung into the kitchen to check the time on the wall clock to see that it was about twenty after twelve.

I then headed back into the living room where I proceeded to trip over a forgotten pair of sneakers and hit the floor with a soft thud.

It was then that I noticed the shiny, black boots standing before me.

"Careful Reese's Pieces. We wouldn't want you to get hurt...not yet anyway" He laughed, snidely

It was also then that I realized that I was in big trouble.