When I was done I went out to the kitchen to find dinner was already done and everyone had already gotten their portions. I scooped up the last of the haluski into a bowl and grabbed a couple chunks of sausage that were sitting in another pan and set them on top of it. I sat down beside Amy on the floor. The adults were already sitting at the table and Amy and Diana were watching a movie on TV. I looked around to see if Marian was there.

"Hey, dad," I started. "Where is Marian?"

"She's out of town until later tonight," he answered. "She's visiting a friend who lives in the Capitol. Why?"

"I was just curious," I replied and started in on my food. I ate kind of quickly; a habit from eating with Odd.

The twins were so engulfed in the movie they barely spoke to me or to each other. I took that as a blessing and finished my food and took my dish to the sink and washed it. I soaked the pans and dried my hands off. "Dad, I'm going to go for a walk, alright? It's so nice out."

"Alright, be careful, Emma!" he responded. "Take the pocketknife in the drawer, I've been meaning to give it to you." I dug in the drawer he indicated and I found the knife he meant; a red swiss army knife. There had to be at least 20 tools on it. It has a large blade, a small blade, a corkscrew, a can opener, a bottle opener, five different sized screw drivers, scissors, tweezers, a toothpick, a hook, a metal file, a metal scraper, and four other tools I couldn't even identify. "I know it's a hunting tool, but I know you can use it for protection," he told me while I was looking at it.

"Dad, I'm pretty great at self-defense, Odd and the others taught me a lot," I protested half-heartedly. I realized at that moment that I'd already put the pocket knife in my back pocket.

"Take it anyway. Don't be out too long," he told me. I nodded and went back into my room to pull my new dark blue hoodie on and grabbed the disk, sliding it into the front hoodie pocket. I left the apartment, feeling guilty already.

When I got outside I looked around outside. Nobody was out and about, good. I looked at Marian's parking spot and saw it was empty; also a good sign. I walked over to her building and chose to buzz apartment four. I knew for a fact that this person wasn't acquainted with Marian or my family.

"Yeah?" the raspy voice croaked. "Who'z'it?"

"Sorry to bother you, sir," I said into the speaker. "I live in apartment 1 and I forgot my key in my apartment. Can you please open the door for me?"

He grumbled something inaudibly and I thought that he was going to refuse, but then the buzzing noise came and I opened the door. I did a silent internal happy dance. "Thank you sir!" I said, before going inside. "Have a nice evening."

When I went inside there was nobody in the hallway, nobody coming down the steps. I found Marian's door and found it was locked.

"Why am I surprised?" I asked myself and knelt down in front of the doorknob. I pulled my swiss army knife out and found the proper tool and started on unlocking it. I tried to avoid doing any damage to the lock.

After a few second I heard it click and stood back up, opening the door, pocketing the knife.

"You have your keys separate?" I heard from above and saw the old man was peeking out from the stairs. I thought fast and held up the key to my dad's apartment.

"Yes.. I really should put them on the same keychain!" I said and laughed sheepishly. "Thanks again for letting me in."

"No problem, sweetheart. What are neighbors for? I just wanted to make sure you weren't lying. Have a good one."

I nodded and watched him go back upstairs and sighed in relief; he hadn't seen me pick the lock, thank god. I walked into Marian's apartment and closed the shades and locked the door behind me again. I sat down at her computer and thought for a few minutes about what her password could be. I moved the mouse to wake the computer up and started trying a few things.

I thought of everything she'd told me about herself. I tried her birthday, her initials, her initials followed by her birthday, and then I tried her initials, birthdate, and high school graduation year. Bingo.

I went to work running Jeremie's program and came to a sudden realization: Now I had to sit around in an apartment that I was breaking and entering in. And I knew my father would probably start getting worried in about half an hour.

I decided to email Jeremie to let him know I was running the program now, I explained that I was breaking and Entering, and that I would need instructions for when I sent the data to him when it was done. I told him I would do that from my father's laptop.

He responded almost immediately. He reminded me to be very careful. If X.A.N.A. was strong enough, he could easily try to attack me while I was hanging around. I told him I would be on guard.

So I was, I literally stared at the computer for an hour. Watching the program bar slowly creep longer and longer until it finally reached 100% done. I ejected the disk and erased my activity and logged out of the computer. Just as I finished I heard the the sound of the doorknob being jiggled.