a.n.- somewhat of an uninteresting chap but it had to be there. The next one will be longer. O yeah and thanks to michiki for reviewing cuz she's the ONLY nice person in this world!!!! All u non-reviewing meanie heads!!! -lana

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My mom's eyes were teary as she hugged me tight as if scared to lose me . . . then, quietly another person slipped into our embrace. We pulled apart out of surprise.

"Hey," I breathed softly. My mom hugged Mari so tightly I heard her say help.

"I'll be right back," I said and went to look for the mysterious boy from before. I looked everywhere, but I couldn't find him. I also had that weird sensation that someone was watching me, I could feel someone was like stalking me. Then I had to leave because my mom had to go back to work real fast because one of the important severs at her work was having strange troubles. So, Mari and I got dropped back at home in a hurry that we forgot to take the luggage out of the car, o well.

Mari went to call my uncle and tell him that we weren't coming while I went to my room and sat down on my bed. I heard Mari talking on the phone saying, "Hi uncle Peter . . . yes that was us . . . yeah, we're fine . . . no we're not coming today . . . ok . . . bye."

In a moment Mari appeared in my doorway and I asked her, "Did you tell mom about the guy?"

"No, he asked me not to tell anyone, why?"

"Nothing, just don't tell." I didn't know if that guy saved her just out of sheer kind heart but if he did then why did he have a weapon in an airport? "Do you think the security cams were on? I mean what if they taped every thing?"

"Man, you don't notice very many details do you? All the cams had smoke coming out of them."

"I just thought of something, house is going to be swarming with reporters soon, are you going to talk to them?"

"I don't know. I think I'll ask them to leave first."

Within minutes the outside of my house was crawling with reporters and the police who were trying to keep them off our front lawn. We spent the rest of the day doing interviews with every reporter from every single channel there was until almost eight when they finally all left.

Neither of our parents were home yet, mom was still working on getting the sever fixed when another database got "accidentally" deleted by some moron and dad works for some peace ambassador so they're examining the terrorist attack. So Mari and I ordered pizza, had dinner by ourselves in front of the TV then went to sleep.