As we were heading up the stairs, the doorbell rang.

"Xander must have forgotten something."

We turned around and when I answered the door, I was completely surprised.

"FAST! I thought you weren't coming till next week. You told me the last time we talked that you wouldn't be able to till the 6th."

"Can I settle in first? It's chilly out here and for some reason I feel like I'm being watched."

I let Fast inside and then led the way to my room. Once settled there I asked her again why she was here early.

"Well my boss decided that since I was working into my already set vacation, that he should might as well let me off sooner than he wanted. I'll be doing a little paperwork while you're at school so I won't be too bored."

I told her that she'd be able to stay in the guest room.

"Oh! Did you bring your Halloween costume? I asked the principal this morning and he said that you're allowed to come. You can be sort of like a chaperon."

"Yes I did. I had better get it out of the bag before it crumples."

Fast stood and got her costume out of the bag. The costume was a Spanish dancers costume that she had made for a Halloween party the previous year. She had made a mask out of sequins and attached elastic to the sides.

"Not bad. The dress looks better than you described over the net. Now, tell us about you feeling watched? I got the same feeling earlier when I was letting Holly in and seeing Xander leave."

Fastdancer positioned herself against the post while Holly moved her chair closer to the bed so she could put her feet up.

"When I was getting my bags out of my mustang, I thought I saw a flash of light bounce past me and hit trunk. Well I turned around and tried to see someone but didn't. Every move I made, made me feel like I was on one of those reality T.V shows."

I reminded her what night today was but she still said she got a weird feeling. A knock then came at the door.

"Yes?"

"Just me dear. Oh hello Jazmine. Nice to see you made the trip earlier than expected."

Fast nodded to mom and then mom turned her attention back to me.

"One of your decorating crew members called while I was on the phone to Lisa. He said that they need you there around 10. Something didn't turn out right with the decorations and needs your artistic touch."

"Thanks mom. Night."

At that, mom left.

"Well we'd better get some sleep. Like mom said, I need to go fix some things. I would think that for one year, they wouldn't need me to fix something."

Holly starred at me and laughed as she rolled out her sleeping bag and Fast left.

"Your ideas can get so complicated that no one but you can sort them out."

I stuck out my tongue and we went to separate bathrooms and got ready for bed.

~*~*Next day~*~*

"LEON!"

I yelled waiting patiently for my assistant to show get down from the ladder.

"Ya Dodger?"

I pointed to the sign.

"What does that say?"

"Welcome Customers..oh no."

"Better take that down. Holly and I will rewrite the words on the back later. I want the crepe paper up in the hallways now before everyone goes on a break."

At that, Leon ran off to help the others get the crepe paper up. I put my fingers to the bridge of my nose, inhaled then went to and up the ladder to take the sign back down. Holly had gone to get us some pops out of the 2nd floor vending machine so I would have to take it down myself.

Going up the ladder, I was really regretting doing this since my whole thing with heights. I looked above and kept my eye on the banner.

"Not much farther. Just breathe."

I made it close enough to the top to grab hold of the banner and pull the tape off the wall. Taking slow breaths, I went back down steadily stopping if I needed to. Finally I made contact with the floor.

"That wasn't so bad. Now just for the other side."

I moved the ladder over to the opposite side and once again headed up. I went a bit faster, knowing that I had made the journey just a few minutes ago. My fault this time though, I watched the banner fall to the ground. I clung to the ladder and my heartbeat quickened.

"Not good. Not good."

I muttered to myself. Where's Holly or Leon when you need them? Just then footsteps entered the gym along with several others.

'Yes. Help.'

"Uh, can someone give me a hand down please."

The footsteps walked over to me and stopped at the ladder.

"Dodge, I'm down here. Just take a deep breath and slowly come down."

Thank goodness. The person was Xander. I followed his advice and very, very slowly, made my way down the ladder. When I finally reached the ground, I turned to see Xander and several guys in baseball caps. I then flung my arms around Xander.

"Oh THANK YOU."

We parted and he looked at me.

"What were you doing up there? You know how you get when you and heights get put together."

"I know. Holly was upstairs and Leon went off before I could get him to take the banner down. Holly and I have to redo the words so I figured I would take the thing down but I had to watch the banner fall."

I looked to the clock on the wall and saw that the time was getting close to meeting up with Fast for lunch.

"Well I've got to get going. I'll see you after break."

"Listen the guys and I can redo the banner for you. Then that is one less thing to worry about."

"Thank you once again. You're just a plain lifesaver today. Well see ya."

At least Xander knows what needs to be there on the poster. I grabbed my bag off the stage and ran for the doors.

~*~*With Xander~*~*

Xander's POV

The guys and I watched as Dodger ran for the doors. I then turned back to them and they all took off their caps. Before me stood Aaron Lohr, Christian Bale, Gabrielle Damon and Max Casella. Aaron was the first to speak.

"That's the girl that is the big fan?"

I nodded.

"You caught her at one of her bad moments. She is very scared of heights, ever since she was a kid. Now I don't want you guys getting a bad impression of her. See everything around you?"

The guys looked around the gym and amazement entered their faces.

"Well Dodger planned all of this by herself with little input from her friend Holly. She's always been the one with the ideas. She's creative in every aspect you can think of. Acting, writing, drawing whatever you name, she can do. Like everyone, she has some flaws. One being the heights and another is dogs."

Christian spoke up.

"Well then, Drake told us 'ow we are to surprise 'er so if we want to be ready by later and 'ave this job done, let's get going."

We spread out the banner sheet and got to work.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fastdancer, Christian Bale, Aaron Lohr, Max Casella and Gabe Damon. I own everyone else. Until later, AUSTA!