Once we were inside, he guided me to the dining room and said "Please, make yourself comfortable…I just need to pick up a couple of things" I took a seat at the table & from where I was sitting I had a perfect view of the entry way. James went into the coat closet and picked something up, and as he turned around into my view I saw that it was flimsy and pink. I decided that was ALL I wanted to know about it, so I turned back around to study the knot holes in the table. A few (very drawn out) moments later, he came into the dining room and said "It should just be any moment now-" as if rehearsed; of course the doorbell rang at that very moment. James smiled a sexy-little-smile and said "Ah" then went to answer the door. He came back moments later with a box in his hand. He sat it on the table and took a seat across from me.

He opened the lid on the box, and steam rose up. "Mmm, fresh biscuits...Care for one my dear?" 'Yeesh, this guy doesn't take long to get on "my dear" terms, now does he'. I raised an eyebrow and said "You get biscuits delivered? That is so strange". He took a bite, and with a half full mouth replied "Not any more strange than your obvious admiration for chickens". I was totally confused, and I'm sure I had that look on my face, because he pointed to my shirt. "Ooooh, THAT! Well, um, I can explain that...You see, where I come from, well, what I mean is...I guess it is strange. But I don't ADMIRE them...It's a long story"

He left it at that, and I reached out for a biscuit. He pushed my hand away "No, no...Here, have a bite of mine..." he broke off a piece of his biscuit and he was moving it towards my mouth to feed me as if I were an infant. I knew he was trying to be sensual, or whyever it is that people think feeding someone else is appealing in any way, but I find it totally gross so I said "Um, you know, actually I'm not that hungry...and seeing as how I've been at your house now for about half an hour already, I better get back to my motel. I have someone there waiting for me" I thought myself very brave for saying this, even if it WAS my sister back in the room, but he didn't need to know that.

"Ah, I see..." he said, sounding somewhat disappointed (or maybe I just hoped that sound was disappointment) "Well, you will at least allow me to walk you to the door" he placed his hand over mine and smiled. Suddenly the thoughts of last night, and just where that hand had been came rushing to my mind, and I quickly pulled away from him. "Um, ya know, actually that's alright...I remember where the door is" I stood up quite quickly and walked over to the door and turned the knob, looked back at him and said "It was a pleasure meeting you, really...I enjoyed it" he nodded, seeming confused (who can blame the dude?) and as I turned to leave, I saw a corner of my laptop sticking out from under his bed 'Oh my gosh! I completely forgot about it! How we got into this place must have something to do with my laptop!' I had to think of something, some way to be able to get into his room and remove my laptop without being caught. But, hello, it's in the house of a famous spy, for cryin' out loud. How was I going to pull THAT off? I had to get back to the motel to brainstorm with The Brain (a.k.a Ashley)

I realized that I needed to be charming for this goodbye, so that he'd want to invite me back into his house again. Something I've found is that when you're actually TRYING to pour on the charm is generally when you can't think of anything particularly charming to say, but I tried to give it a go.

I tucked my hair behind my ears (I read once that this is what girls do when they're attracted to a guy...Says WHO!) to seem like I was just unsure of myself and nervous around him, but that I really did like him. Trying to convey all these feelings with one hair-tuck-behind-the-ear is NOT easy, so I added a little wink, hoping that it meant the same thing (or basically the same thing) then as it does now. "Goodbye James...I'll be back later" I blew him a kiss and went out the door.

I practically ran back to the motel room, where Ashley was (much to my extreme shock) not asleep! She was sitting on the floor, tying her shoes when I came through the door. She looked up and said "Finally! Geez, I was about to give up on you!" I sat across from her, on my knees and said "Ok, Ashley, think- what is the last button you pressed on the laptop before we got here?" She rubbed her chin and said "hhmmm...I don't know...Give me a while, I'll remember it I'm sure. Why do you wanna know, anyway?" I stood back up, more than slightly frustrated that her memory was failing her at the moment, but I decided to keep my mouth shut about it. "I'm not sure, it's just a hunch, but I think that's how we got here...something to do with the laptop. That's the only possible explanation I can think of!"

I continued on a long-winded tale of my morning adventure, and after much eye-rolling (on her part) and fake dreamy sighs, I was done. Ash got up off the floor and went over to the dresser beside the bed and said "Well, here's all I came up with while you were gone...I have no idea what to make of it" she handed me what looked like a seed packet. It was orange and purple, and on the front it said "Only to be used when you're plum outta ideas" I shook it and sat on the bed "Wouldn't that be, oh, I dunno, about NOW?" Ashley stood in front of me and took the package from my hands "See here on the back, it says Made by Sparkles & Other Shiny Things Inc." I fell on my back on the bed and said "GOSH what is it with sparkles lately?"

I explained to Ash that I had to find a way to get back into James' house to get my laptop. "Ok, we're gonna have to time this perfectly. Let me take a walk down the road to his house...You follow at a distance and we'll take it from there"

I started down the road to his house, past Sparkle's Place and down the sidewalk past the overly 70's houses once again. Thankfully, I spotted James out in his yard again. He was carrying a briefcase, and headed out towards his garage. I sped up my pace a couple notches, and looked over my shoulder to see if Ashley was behind me. She was there, at quite a distance, but I thought she probably saw James anyway. She waved at me and turned around quickly, to pretend I didn't see/know her.

Once I reached James' mailbox, he'd opened his garage door and was bent over, putting his briefcase in the backseat. I walked right up on him and said "Going somewhere?" in what I hoped was my most appealing voice. He stood and turned to me "Ah, my little mystery girl. When you said you'd be back I hadn't dreamed it would be this soon. Unfortunately, yes I am going somewhere. Why do you ask?" he raised an eyebrow.

I leaned into him a bit and said "Oh, well because I was thinking we could've had a little bit of fun" 'OH MY GOODNESS I can't believe I just said that! I don't know how to "have fun" James Bond style! Crap! Where's Ashley!' James then raised both eyebrows and started sliding his fingers up and down my arm, gosh it tickled, but I didn't want to pull away because I needed to get into that house! He leaned into me and whispered "Well my dear, if that's the case I suppose I could be a bit late…Let's go into the house"

Ashley, unbeknownst to me, had been standing right outside the garage door out of sight. (If I had known this at the time I believe I would've died of embarrassment) There was a handy little entrance right into the house through the garage and James turned to it, gestured and said "After you, my love" I smiled at him and walked toward the door, hoping that he didn't know how incredibly nervous I was. 'What have I gotten myself into? Where the heck is Ashley!'? Once inside, James shut the door behind us & kissed the back of my neck. I was so totally not prepared for this, so I jumped & turned around when he did it. He laughed a little and said "There, there. Settle down…let's go into the bedroom and I'll put some music on"

He started to walk towards the bedroom when I heard the door creak a little, and saw Ashley peeking in. I quickly turned around, back to James, and said "WAIT!" It was he that did the jumping this time, and I decided that maybe I'd been a bit too hasty with the old yelling thing, I continued and tried to sound a bit more calm, with a hint of seductiveness going on" Um, wait a second…Don't you think we'd be more comfortable in the living room?" James smiled and I walked over to him, just to make sure I'd convinced him that I was enjoying being with him. I went to hug him, but I found out he had something else in mind as well as I felt his hands wandering on my back. 'Oh Ashley, you had BETTER HURRY UP!' As he was doing this, I saw Ashley creep into the house through the same door James & I had just entered.

I made sure James had his back to her as I leaned into him, standing on my tippy toes, trying to look at her over his shoulder. When she was behind him, she looked at me and shook her head. James started kissing my neck and I pointed towards the bedroom, trying to get her to hurry up! She covered her mouth to suppress the laughs, and started towards the room. James was getting a bit too happy about this arrangement, ahem, if you know what I mean, and said "Lets go to the couch darling" I looked up at him and said "Oh sweetie, I'd love to…do you mind if I go into your room and get into something more…comfortable?" 'Girls always get away with things while they're "getting into something more comfortable" in the movies, so I thought I'd give it a go' He seemed a bit surprised "Comfortable? Are you not having a good time?"

'Uh-oh, that didn't go as planned…' I licked my lips and kissed him full on the mouth. After counting to ten, I felt that was sufficient enough evidence that I was having a good time, AND I didn't want to encourage any saliva swapping, so I pulled away just as he was bringing his tongue out. Whew.

"You see James; I'm having a marvelous time. I just want to slip out of my clothes so I can have an even better time, if you know what I mean" I licked my lips again, and looked up at him through my eyelashes. He smiled and said "Well then, by all means, help yourself to my bedroom" he gestured towards the door behind him and I started towards it. He grabbed my arm 'oh no, please let me go, please. Was it that obvious that I had no idea what I was doing?' he kissed my neck, winked and said "Hurry back". I'm sure I breathed a huge sigh of relief at that moment as laughed a little and walked towards his room.

It seemed like ages 'til I reached the door. Once I was finally in his bedroom, with the door closed Ashley came out from under the bed. I sighed and leaned against the door. "FINALLY!" she said "Although, it looked like you were having a pretty enjoyable time…I'm surprised you were able to tear yourself away from the glorious Bond, James Bond" I rolled my eyes and locked the door. I laid on the floor beside her and said "It's not like I could just run into his bedroom ok! Give me a stinking break!"

I think Ashley sensed my tension because she let it drop at that. She brought the laptop out from under the bed and said "Well, here's the thing…there's some good news, and some bad news. The good news is that we're here, we have the laptop and all that" she smiled and I turned towards the door as I heard jazz turned on in the living room. I rolled my eyes and said "Ok, hurry up, my overly horny Romeo waits. What's the bad news?" She opened my laptop and said "Dead battery" I buried my face in my hands. Ashley sat up and said "But hey it's not all that bad, I mean-"I cut her off and said "Yes Ashley! It IS that bad! How are we going to recharge it? How are we going to get out of this place? What do we do now!"

I heard footsteps coming towards the door. 'No no no…I don't want to lose my virginity to James-way-too-much-Viagra -Bond!' I sat up and grabbed Ashley's shoulders "Think Ashley! If you want me to remain…well, somewhat virtuous, THINK of a way out of here!" Ashley put the laptop on the bed, and tried pressing lots of different buttons, just in case. "I don't know what to do! I'm plum outta ideas!" I raised my eyebrow and said "Did you just say you're PLUM outta ideas? Okay-now THAT is so not you" She snapped and said "You're right! That ISN'T me!" she pulled the seed packet out of her back pocket and read it out loud "Only to be used when you're plum outta ideas". She ripped it open. James was at the door, knocking. "Hurry up Ashley!" I whispered. She poured it on my laptop, out of what I thought at the time was a moment of total and complete insanity. "What the heck was THAT ALL ABOUT! Great, just great, now my keyboard is ruined!" I said. She looked at me and couldn't help laughing as she said "Oopsie". We were looking at each other when we heard the BEEP of my laptop powering up. We both gasped and held each other's hands.

James was twisting the knob of the door, growing very impatient and suspicious. "What's going on in there!" he yelled. I was typing my password in the computer to get it to load when I answered "Uh, just a sec honey. I have to fix my hair". Finally, windows was booting up. James stepped away from the door "Good grief, you must have really had him going in there" Ashley said, elbowing me in the side. "Oh would you please shut up?" I answered as I was getting into the DVD program-Magical World Viewing-to boot up.

I heard a key turn in the lock. Ashley looked at me and said "Oh no". I turned back to the laptop just as James came in the door. He had his gun pointed at us "What the hell are you two doing in here!" I was about to click the sparkle key on the keyboard when he said "HANDS UP! Don't even think about moving" I put my hands up straight away (Hey! It's kinda scary being at gunpoint ok! Especially when you know how good the aim is of the person that's holding it) and Ashley followed suit.

"First, I want you to tell me how you got in here" he said, pointing at Ashley with the gun. She looked at me and I shrugged. She put her hands on the back of her head and said "Alright, but first please let me tell you that we're not dangerous in any way…You don't need to point a gun at us. We're just trying to investigate something here" 'Now why didn't I think of saying that? Ugh…' James didn't seem convinced but said "Very well, you may put your hands down" but kept the gun pointed straight at us.

Ashley put her hands down and sighed "Well, it's a really long story actually…You might want to pull up a chair" James nodded and said "Fair enough" He turned around for the chair behind him, and I seized the moment. I pressed the sparkle key and all the sudden everything froze, and then resumed again. When it resumed, BOY were we happy campers! It's STILL the weirdest feeling I've ever had so I can't describe it. (Ask Ashley sometime, she seems better with those kinds of things anyways) My hands were still raised & I was on my knees. Ashley had her hands in her lap and her mouth open, as if about to say something. My laptop fell a couple inches from the air and bounced on my bed.

Ashley and I slowly looked around our room, afraid to move too much. When we realized that we were truly in our own bedroom we leaped up off the bed and started dancing around the room yelling various joyous things. We hugged and started jumping up and down, and we almost hugged again but we decided the moment had passed for too much hugging. We heard a knock at the door. Ashley and I froze in place, afraid we'd find it was James just outside the door, still waiting for us. For what seemed like hours we just stood there, saying nothing, too afraid to move. Finally, Ashley said "Yes?" and the reply was "HEY! Keep it down in there, I'm tryin' to sleep. I have to go to work at 7 in the morning" I almost screamed with joy at hearing Jared's voice (and how many times does THAT happen? I mean, really…) and Ashley started laughing as she said "Ok, we will"

We finally sat down on the floor and I said "Whew…that was a huge adventure..." I looked over at my laptop, which had now shut its self off from running on low-battery. Ashley smiled, grabbed my hand and said "It was…but think of all the adventures we have waiting for us in Sparkle Land!"

THE END…..For now.