Okay, so that quote was from book twelve, page 196, on the hardcover copy, the last page of chapter 14.

Quote:

'"That's surprisingly domestic for the man of mystery," I said to him.

He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. "I like things hot."' End Quote.

Well, damn, I love that quote. 

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Chapter 21

We finally pulled into the driveway of a small two-story house with a large front porch. There were windows in the front and sides, clearly visible, and I noticed the little fish decorations stuck to them. The lawn was coated in green grass, but far from smooth as I memorized the shape of the land. On the right, there was the rocky driveway. Over by the edge of the property on the right, there were two BIG rocks, big enough to have to run and jump to get on type of big, separated by a tree with beautiful white blooming flowers.

Lester led me forward, following Ranger who was following Mr. Higgens towards the house. Once at the front door, he inserted the key, and unlocked it, then gave it a hard shove with his should to get it open. There were small glass panels on the side of the door, and around the small suction-cupped fish, I could see a table.

Upon entering, I could see more than just he table. Straight ahead of us, there was a staircase with no back to it, so you could see the trash can, bottle bag, and other various cases on the other side, under the stair case. There was a door immediately to the right, looking to be a bedroom, and to the left, there was the dining room table, with six chairs surrounding the dark wood table. A floral couch separated the living room from the dining room, and the kitchen stood separated by an island counter and linoleum flooring.

"So, this is the house, upstairs there are two other guest bedrooms, we pretty much just use it for storage right now. The bathrooms down there," he said pointing to the door just to the right of the kitchen's microwave. "The door to the back is also out that way. The other back door is right around the corner in the living room, and most of the windows are down stairs." Ranger nodded.

"What first?" I asked Lester.

He turned to Ranger. "We install the different systems, explain how to control them, say good bye, and head back to RangeMan." Lester said, as if asking Ranger to correct him if he were wrong.

Ranger nodded. "And we add a bolt lock on his front door." I smiled. Ranger liked bolt locks.

Ranger had me stay with Lester while he started installing the alarms on the doors, front and two back doors. I never knew how easy it was to install a security system before this. The alarm had no wires, like a fire alarm, but also didn't use a battery. It charged off of the electrical system, but had enough of a life so that if they lost power, or had power cut, the alarm would work for a full forty eight hours after. At that point, back up would be sent to the premises. Lester and I were finished first, so we headed up the steps to help install the last of the motion detectors up there.

At the top of the stairs the door was propped open, and we could see easily to the two rooms. To the left was a bit of space, and another door, presumably a guest bedroom. I stepped inside for a quick look, and saw the slanted ceiling, high from the end of the door, lowering down by the other side of the room. There were two, old and dusty twin bed set up, one on either side of the room.

I exited the room, and turned. There was a large open area before the other room, and it was packed full of random things, mostly of boxes from where it was being unpacked slowly. The floor, I noticed, was made of a much stronger type of plywood, most likely placed and secured to supports. It was sturdy under my boots but it still felt old.

The bedroom at the end of the room was where Lester was heading, so I followed, not at all disappointed not to see the room.

It was white, and cute, with a queen size bed sitting against the wall by the door. There was a half-sized shelf running most of the way around the room, and on the right, there were a few boxes, and an old box spring mattress. Bobby and Ram were kneeling in front of the window opposite of the door and bed, finishing installing the detector. Ram was holding the level, while Bobby screwed it into the wall. The motion detectors ran off of special circle batteries, that had a longer life span than AA's.

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We pulled into RangeMan at thirty minutes to twelve, and we all headed our separate ways. We had finished installing everything, then talked to Mr. Higgens a bit more. I was the last out the door, and he said that he'd see me around, and that if I ever wanted to talk, I knew where he lived.

Yeah, right.

Lester and I went for another sandwich in the break room, then to our desks with another kiss, and him reminding me that it would be a good day because he got his kiss.

After that, I got to work on the files that had stacked up on the desk, and by the time it was five, I was just finishing the second to last one. It could wait until tomorrow.

"Hey." He said casually, leaning against the cubicle wall lightly.

"Hey." I replied with a small grin. I logged out and shut it down, then stood and walked over to him, leaning up and giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.

He slung an arm around my waist and guided me out of the cubical. "You hungry yet?"

"Mmmm," I groaned. "Food. That's a yes." I flashed him a grin and surpressed my stomach from growling as we stepped off the elevator and walked down the hall.

He laughed, and gave me a gentle into his apartment. "Here," He said, pulling over a chair and pressing on my shoulder lightly, telling me to sit down. I sat in the chair, and as if I weighed nothing, he picked up the entire chair, and carried it almost two yards towards the counter, placing me away from the dining room table, and stove, and making it also so that my back wasn't to the door.

I smiled at this.

"So what are you making?" I asked.

"You'll see, it's not to complex, make yourself comfortable, it's going to take about half an hour. You said you couldn't cook, so I'm going to start by having you watch me, then I'm going to teach you." He looked over at me, and flashed me a grin as he continued. "And maybe you can teach me to be more flexible."

"Is that a deal?" I asked with a smirk.

"It can be."

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Okay, so I planned on posting this yesterday, but I had to write a 5-page lab report (yuck) for science about candles. Boring. Anyway, I've been busy, so here it is, and I'm sorry it's so short, it's smaller than I would usually post.

Multiple Choice

Which of the Merry Men is a new addition to the Merry Men (by us readers) in book 13?

A) Hal

B) Brett

C) Cal

D) Hector

Again, sorry for being a day late, and for it being so short, I like long, and this was only like, two pages. Gosh, sad me. I'll be posting on Sunday peeps, see ya!

Peanut Out.