Thomas was down in the basement tidying up a bit. The basement was always his favorite room in the whole house. There was a leaky pipe somewhere so there was always water dripping. The floor was flooded by a few inches and was always dark. Thomas found comfort in the darkness of the basement. Thomas' attention went to the house above him as he heard running footsteps.

"Tommy?" he heard Mindy call.

It sounded like she was crying. He turned to the door and ran upstairs. He slammed the sliding door behind him and found Mindy in the kitchen wrapped in Luda Mae's arms.

"What happened?" Luda Mae asked.

"I did it", Mindy shuddered.

"Did what?"

"I…I killed him. I killed Jeremy."

Jeremy? Mindy's stepfather? She killed him? Mindy looked up at Luda Mae and looked over at Thomas in a daze. She was covered in sweat and was panting heavily.

"Did you run all the way back here?" Luda Mae asked.

Mindy nodded. Luda Mae got up and went to the sink, filling a glass with water. She held it up to her lips letting her take a sip.

"Tommy, take her upstairs so she can rest", she said.

Thomas nodded. He wrapped one arm around Mindy's shoulders and the other under her legs. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he picked her up and carried her upstairs to their room. She shook as Thomas set her down on the bed. Mindy kept her arms wrapped around him.

"Please don't go", she whimpered.

He looked at her confused. Thomas didn't know how to comfort her, especially since this had never happened before.

"Am I going to get in trouble?" Mindy asked. "What are we going to do about the body? Will I go to jail if they find it?"

Thomas understood now. It was Jesse all over again. He held up one finger telling Mindy he'd be back. He went downstairs to see Charlie and Luda Mae talking.

"So, that little spit-fire's a killer now?" Charlie asked. "Just like Tommy. They were meant for each other."

"Charlie, now's not the time", Luda Mae said. "What are we going to do?"

"We'll do what Tommy did. We'll hide the body. Come on, boy."

Thomas quickly followed Charlie. Hopefully what they were going to do would protect Mindy from going to jail.

Charlie looked at Jeremy's body smiling almost like a proud father. Thomas looked at it uncomfortably. Jeremy's lifeless eyes stared up into empty space. His forehead was bashed in and blood was oozing from his gut where Mindy stuck the shovel in him. Said shovel laid a few feet from the body with blood on either end.

"She done good boy", Charlie said. "That little girl's a natural born killer."

Thomas looked at him in horror. He didn't want Mindy to be a killer. He wanted his sweet Mindy, the one he fell in love with. The one he was going to marry. Thomas shook his head expressing his thoughts.

"Okay, Tommy, we won't let her be a killer. Get him into the back."

He picked up the body and threw it into the bed of the truck. They got in the truck and drove to the creek to dump the body just as they did with Jesse's body years ago. Thomas was worried about Mindy. Would this kill mess her up bad? Would she still be the same Mindy he loved?