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moovalous3 - Catie! You think my mediocre story is awesome! Wow, thats awesome, lol. You have to update ur story on KRC soon too. Or else.

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siriusforeva - Hey! Yeah, Kia is absolutely adorable. I originally had her be three but then I changed it. When I was writing it, she seemed to mature for almost three. So now she's almost five. Woohoo!

Chapter 3

Kia and I just boarded the plane two hours ago and we should be landing soon. I hope.

"Please fasten your seat belts ladies and gentlemen. We will be landing momentarily." The prissy stewardess said. Yeah, so I buckled our seat belts. I made sure Kia was next to me at all times. I even brought her to the restroom with me. She means so much to me and if anything happened to her, I'd literally die.

Five minutes later there was a lurch and we were going down the runway. Yes, finally! I thought as the airport came into view.

I saw the van before I saw Krantz. He was waiting for me to drive me to my hotel and to talk about the murder case. Oh joy!

"Come on sweetie," I said to Kia as we walked toward the van. She had stopped to look at a little kitten on the sidewalk. Aw, poor thing, its mother must have abandoned it. So, I picked the kitten up and brought it with us. I wasn't gonna leave it there to die. I had Chigger still - and yes, he came with us – but I wasn't about to leave a poor, helpless kitten to die there. That would have been cruel.

I grabbed Kia's blankie and wrapped the kitten in it and gave her – lucky guess – to Kia to hold, since she seemed so fascinated by the little creature.

I let her walk next to me because I was carrying our luggage and couldn't really carry a kid along with all our crap.

"Hello Kia." Krantz said to my baby girl and looked at me and said. "We'll talk about the case on the way." How come I don't get a hello?

"Sure," I said, "you wanna help me with this crap?"

"Oh, yes, of course," he said and came over and took our crap to the back of the van and placed it inside. So, I went to the other side and got in the back. And surprise, surprise, Allan and Jill were in the back also. Wow, haven't seen those two in a while.

I picked Kia up and set her the car seat that was already set up. And then I sat next to her on the floor.

"How are you Jessica?" Jill asked me when Krantz started the van up.

"Fine, could be better but I'm okay. How are you two?" I asked politely.

They looked at each other and then at me. "We took your advice Jess." Allan said.

My advice? Who the hell would take my advice? Wait, what advice are we talking about? "What do you mean?" I asked them.

advice? Who the hell would take advice? Wait, what advice are we talking about? "What do you mean?" I asked them.

"Well, it seems that you were right. We should be together."

I just stared at them dumbfounded. Then Jill spoke up. "We're engaged Jess."

I think my eyes almost fell out of my sockets. Okay, well that certainly was a shocker.

"Okay…" I said, still trying to register the information they dumped on me.

"Yes, we are getting married soon." Then, feeling as if they overwhelmed me, which they certainly did, Jill changed the subject, "My, your daughter certainly is adorable," she said.

I looked at Kia and smiled. She still ahd the kitten in her arms (Chigger was in the way back in the pet carrier). "Yeah, she is, isn't she?"

"Yes, she is. Um, if you don't mind me asking, who is the father?" Okay, that was defintitely a question that I didn't want to answer.

I was about to give them some sort of reply, but Krantz said, "Jessica, we really need to talk about this case." Thank the lord. I am very grateful towards Krantz now for saving my ass.

"Uh, absolutely. I read the file on the plane." Yeah that file was pretty thick too. It was like dictionary thick. Okay, maybe that is an overstatement, but it was pretty thick.

"..and…" Krantz said.

"Well, the serial killer, he looked oddly familiar. I mean, I know I've seen him before. I just don't know where. And he killed 21 people already."

"Yes, 21 people is quite a lot. Do you recognize the name Jessica?"

Hmmm…the name…"Nah, don't really recall hearing that before." This guy – the serial killer – killed 17 people in Indiana and 4 people in Kentucky. That is quite a bit of people. I wonder what his motive was? Or was he just crazy?

"Jessica, we are here, but I'd really like to get together soon to discuss this. How about you meet me at the Wayside Diner on Thursday at 5 p.m." I nodded to show that I would meet him there then.

"See ya soon Cyrus." I said and grabbed Kia and her bag. Alan took my luggage and carried Chigger up to my hotel room for me.

Before he left I thanked him and then flopped on the queen size bed. I had a pretty big hotel room. There was a nice, gigantic bathroom with a shower and a Jacuzzi. Then there was a pretty big TV in the bedroom and then there was a cozy kitchen.

I let Chigger out of his cage and then he started whining. Great, now I've gotta go and take him for a walk. I assumed the kitten had to pee too so I let Kia take her with us so she could do her business too.

As we came outside I held Kia on my hip and held Chigger's leash with the opposite hand.

I stopped at the little convenient store a little while down the road to get some cat food for the kitten and some food for Chigger. Luckily this hotel allows animals or else I'd be screwed.

The animals did their business and we were walking back to the hotel when I heard it. The sound that I recognized so clearly and remembered so vividly. Great, I'm officially screwed.

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