It had been a few days since Nick told Eddie about that night a Sully's. Eddie had not mentioned it to anybody and asked Nick to do the same. He didn't know what to think. Every time he thought to bring it up, he stopped himself. Janet was so busy between work and school that he really did not see her that much. He worked all day, and on the nights she did not have a night class, she was working. He would drop by the bar when he could and she would come by the office. They did talk on the phone every day, but he knew he did not to bring it up over the phone. Eddie just didn't want what time they had together to be about Rooster. Janet felt the same way. That's why she had not told Eddie or anyone else about her fears. It just didn't make sense. Rooster had been her friend for years. She knew from the run through that he did have a crush on her, but she never thought of him as obsessive.

"Janet, you need to stay completely away from Rooster. You cannot even speak to him." BillyJo was sitting at Hannah's dining room table putting some sugar in her coffee. "I have to admit, I think she's right." Hannah called out from the kitchen. "Ok, you are not getting it. I have stayed away, but I do technically work with him." Janet said, "Sure our schedules have been fixed, but this is a free country. He can show up anywhere." Hannah sat down at the table. "What do you mean, show up anywhere?" "Oh, she never told you?" BillyJo piped in. "Seems that when all this first went down, bed head was showing up everywhere. School, work when he was off, and even dropping by the house." Hannah didn't like the sound of that and thought for a minute. "Are you guys thinking he could have been who you saw in the window that night you called the cops?" Hannah said it more like she was convincing herself rather that asking a question. "No, not at all" Janet said. "Oh, I think it's possible, and I would not be surprised if he wasn't responsible for your tire being flat." They both looked shocked that BillyJo would think that. "Look, I am not saying that he is some serial killer or anything. I don't think he is violent at all. I think he is just a little off. A little obsessed." Hannah looked confused. "Looking in her window, I'll give you that, but why would he flatten her tire?" "To manipulate the situation." BillyJo said. "If we know anything about him we know that he is a manipulator." They both agreed. "and every time you speak to him or act polite, you give him hope" Hannah looked at her questionably. "How do you know so much about this stuff anyway BillyJo?" BillyJo took another sip of her coffee. "I'm southern. We all have at least one crazy person in the family." Janet and Hannah laughed uncontrollably.

Later that night Janet arrived at home after class. She was tired. It was almost 9:30 when she walked through the door. She went through the house and made sure everything was locked up. Then she checked again. A routine she a grown accustom to recently. Janet got in the shower and cleaned up. She washed her hair and body and stood quietly under the running water. The hot water felt so good. As she reached to turn the water off she thought she heard a noise. She turned the knob tight and stood and listened, but couldn't hear anything. Janet smiled and thought how silly she was. She put her robe on and started drying her hair with a towel. She heard it again. This time she heard the sound of breaking glass. At this point, she was freaking out inside. She took about three seconds to gather her thoughts, went into the bedroom and grabbed Jack's baseball bat from under her bed. As she reached for the phone, she heard someone call her name.By now she was trembling. Janet was afraid to move. "Janet?" He said again. She turned quickly and looked through her bedroom door toward the kitchen. It was Eddie. He slowly walked toward her. He could tell she was scared to death. "What's going on Janet? You have it locked up like Fort Knox around here?" She let out a breath, and started to cry. Before Eddie could even get to her, there was a knock at the door. It was the police. Janet had dialed 911 without realizing.

Eddie explained that he tried to use his key but the front door chain was locked. He called for Janet but she never heard him, so he walked around to the back door. That chain was locked as well, and when he unlocked the door the pressure of him pushing the door open against the chain broke the window. "Good thing I know a window guy."Janet said sitting next to him on the couch "Yeah, good thing." Eddie said smiling at her reassuringly. The officer wrote down everything and said his good bye.

"Gosh, I am so embarrassed." Janet said as she was cleaning up the glass in the kitchen. "You, I'm the one breaking into my girlfriend's house." Eddie laughed as he was patching the window with a piece of cardboard. "I have some glass at the shop that will fit. Nick and I will come by in the morning and patch it up. Ok?" Janet looked at him from the other side of the room where she was throwing the glass in the trash can. "You know Eddie, that door is really old. The glass probably should not have broken so easily. I've got some money saved. Why don't you just order me a new door? It wouldn't be a bad idea to have something with a deadbolt." He watched her, and knew this was about more than a new door. "Come here." He walked toward her and held her close. He could tell she was still not at ease. He looked at her closely. "What's going on Janet? You have never had the house locked up like this, and the look on your face when I came in…." She shook her head and started to cry again. "This is so silly." She said wiping her eyes. "Eddie, I have just been on edge so much lately. I am fine when I am with you, but when I am alone, I just am uneasy." Eddie was confused at this point but he wanted to get to the root of it all. "Nick told me about giving you a ride home the other night. Is Rooster giving you a hard time?" She had been avoiding bring Rooster into the mix. "No…I don't know. After I got back from moving BillyJo and the kids here, he was just driving me crazy. Coming to the bar all the time and showing up at school. He even would drop by the house uninvited." Eddie smirked "Yeah, I bet BillyJo didn't like that at all." She laughed with him. "One night last fall I was studying before bed and I heard a noise. I walked back here and saw someone in the window. It was really quick and I'm not sure, but I think it may have been Rooster." When he heard that, he was angry. He felt like the line had been crossed from creepy obsession to plain out creepy. Eddie kept his anger in check. "Did you call the cops?" "Yes, and nothing has happened since." Eddie kissed her. "Ok" he said "I will order a new door tomorrow. If anything else happens, we are going to have to go to the cops. We'll probably have to tell them everything. It sheds some light on why he's acting this way" She knew what he meant. "Eddie, I am sure that this is just me being hypersensitive. Maybe just old ghost you know." He half smiled and kissed her again. Janet slept comfortably that night in Eddies arms.