Jodie left the mansion at about midnight, after reading and teaching Kevin the letters on the wall. She had promised to get to the library and bring him back some books to help him learn to read. Luckily, she had gotten back inside her room after the party was over without anyone noticing she was ever gone.

She pulled a little red wagon stacked with books creakily up the sunlit side walk to the shadowy mansion. She hated the library, and the librarian must have wondered why she insisted on finding the little blue kitten for her. Jodie had snatched as many kids' books as she could, from picture books to the ABC's of Baby Nature.

She arrived at the door and knocked. Then she realized that she was actually coming back to this creepy place. She was suddenly amazed with herself, befriending a tall guy with monstrous blades for hands, however he was rather-

"Ah!" she squealed as she heard a scraping from the other side of the door, it sounded like Kevin was clawing his way up and down the door.

"Kevin.?" she asked through the door.

"How do you know me? How do you know it is me?" a fierce voice yelled from the other side of the door.

"It's me! Jodie! Remember? I told you I'd come back last night?" she asked rather than just telling him.

The door swung open and Kevin was standing there.

"Who was banging the door?" he asked, using his shining hand on her back he swept her in a he looked around outside the door.

"That was me. You mean knocking?" she questioned as he continued to nudge her in.

"Knocking?"

"Yes, when someone knocks, you can open the door and say 'hi'. Or you can ask 'who is it?' before you open it." she began, then realized he must know nothing like this. And she didn't think she knocked that hard anyway.

"What's this?!" he exclaimed, jumping back away with eyes wide of the little red wagon Jodie still had in tow.

"These are your books!" She said picking up a particularly colorful one. "Remember all the letters I taught you last night? And what they sounded like? Yeah, well, they are in these too." She explained as she lightly fingered the book.

"But what's that?" he asked excitedly pointing a blade at the wagon. "That? Oh that just a wagon thing, um!" she started as Kevin kicked over the wagon with a loud clang with books flying across the floor leaving rectangular trails in the dust.

"Yeep!" she squealed as he picked her up and with his foot he flipped the wagon right side up. With another kick, he snapped off the shiny black handle (with a faint no from Jodie).

All very quickly he stepped on the now deformed wagon and pushed of the marble floor and began to zoom around the huge entrance room.

Jodie seemed to want to say something, but she just clung to her capture horrified. She was having a certain level of fun at the moment, but, she didn't know what would happen when they tried to stop. Kevin was showing no sign of stopping, still effortlessly holding the trembling blonde and pedaling the floor like he was- skateboarding! Jodie wondered if Kevin would like a skateboard, maybe he'd seen one before or something.

Kevin stop pedaling the ground and bent his knees. They were heading for a window. Luckily it didn't seem to have glass anymore, but as they sped closer to it, she realized how high from the floor it was. They wouldn't make it, they'd slam smack into the wall and Kevin would accidentally impale her. Her worries left her when he pushed off the wagon and they flew through the open window into the open air outside.

With a burst of sunlight, Kevin lost his grip on Jodie and they were suspended in the air for a split second and suddenly in a rush of green grass, they found themselves on the ground, and not in to much pain either.

Jodie, still shaking made to look up to see where Kevin landed, but when she tried to rise up she was weighed back down by some unknown force. The she realized the 'unknown force' was breathing!

They had rolled some way down the sparkling lawn and had stopped, one on top of the other. She was pressed into the grass by Kevin.

He grinned up into her face, apparently very pleased with himself, and the ride had been very fun! He tried to rise up off of her, but was stopped by something. She glanced to both of her sides; glittering blades were stuck deep into the ground on either side of her.

"Sorry!" he said as he slid up her to sit, hands still stuck in the ground.

"I don't mean to, but." he began, but didn't finish as he calculated the situation. Jodie was glad he knew exactly why he was apologizing for this. She was flat on the ground with him sitting obscenely on her, unintentionally of course. At least 'the birds and the bees' wasn't in their reading lesson plan.

"How did I.?" Kevin asked himself as he lightly pulled his arms up trying to get the blades out of the ground with no success.

"May I?" Kevin asked innocently. Jodie slowly smiled and then giggled as Kevin jerked harder, desperately trying to get out of the ground, still trying to respect Jodie at the same time. He more violently jerked, flinging his head back with every tug. Jodie began to laugh. Kevin paused and looked at her. Then a smile that had probably never been used appeared. With a final, violent jerk the ground released his blades his wild hair bounced as he flung back, tried to save himself and landed next to Jodie who roared with laughter.