The man smiled at us, and Spencer and I both smiled at him bogusly as he shut the door. Spencer and I walked down the steps and back to the car.

"Spen, this is beginning to get on my last nerve, that psycho is hiding three dead people in that house, I can sense it." I said

"Sel, are you sure you're not going little over board with this?" Spencer said

"No! I have done countless hours of research on these stupid people, and I'll be damned if I don't find out what happened to them." I said

"O.K., sorry I asked." Spencer said

Spencer and I did nothing but research for the next three days, it was beginning to look hopeless, I was never going to admit defeat, of course, but it had come to a point where I might have to.

"Sel, I am so sick of these people, I give up." Spencer said

"Look, I am too, how about we just go back to the house, and talk to that weird old man, then I'll say I need to use his bathroom, and we'll use that as an opportunity to search his house." I said

"Wait a minute, we?"

"Uh, yeah, what did you think I was going to search the house alone? Are you high?"

"No. But won't he think it's weird that we're both going to the bathroom?"

"Uh, Spen, people do use the restroom, what makes a difference if we together or not?"

"Well what will he think we're doing in there?"

"Let's leave that to his imagination." I said, although I was joking, I don't think he thought so.

We bribed the chauffer to take us back to the house, and we walked up the same steps and knocked on the door.

"Hello?" an old woman's voice came from inside

"Hi, I'm Selene Hunnington, and my friend, Spencer Whitfield, can we talk to the elderly man that lives here?" I said.

"I'm sorry," the old woman said, opening the door, "a man doesn't live here, it's just me and my daughter."

"Oh, well, when we where here three days ago-" I started

"Oh, well three days ago is in the past," the old woman said

"Um, O.K., can we come in?" I said

"Oh, um, I'm a little busy, but I guess you could come in."

I grabbed Spencer's arm, and pulled him in after me,

"So, have you lived in Massachusetts long?" Spencer said

"No, not long, I've lived in Bel-Air since, 1953." the old woman said

"And how old are you now?"

"Spen! You never ask a woman her age." I said.

"Oh, it's quite alright, I'm forty- I mean seventy. I'm seventy."

"O.K., so, you would have been 52 when you moved there?"

"Yes."

"Have I seen you somewhere before?"

"No, I've never met you, Spencer Hunnington."

"I'm Spencer Whitfield, She's Selene Hunnington."

"Oh, whatever."

"Ma'am, I know I've seen you somewhere. You're Keely Teslow aren't you? And that elderly man that was here before, that's Phil isn't it?"

"No, you're mistaken, I am not Keely."

"Alright ma'am. Whatever you say."

"Spencer, what are you saying?"

"This is your dead family Sel, it's them."

"Spencer, are you alright?"

"Sel, look at the picture in the newspaper article,"

I had seriously thought Spencer had lost his mind, but I did as he said and took the picture out of my pocket, and studies Keely. I glanced back and forth, from the old woman, to Keely, over and over, and could place her facial features, her nose, cheek bones, and then her face entirely.

"Oh my God." I said finally, "You ARE Keely!"

"You just don't give up do you? I admit it, I'm Keely, and Phil is the elderly man you met the other day. We aren't even that old, only in our forties, and Dana is 17. You see it all started when…." Keely told us

the entire story of the "Kirkpatrick catastrophe" and both Spencer and I were both shocked.

"Wow. I- I can't believe you had to disguise as elderly people just to avoid Tanner,"

"Well, it wasn't easy, when we found out California was at the highest risk for earthquakes, we decided to move back to the East coast, but with Tanner in New York, we thought we should go into disguise." Keely said, she had taken off her old woman disguise and now looked as she normally did. We had also met Dana, who was disguised as a 50 year old, and Phil who was the strange old man.

I did feel a little dumb that I had doubted Spencer for even a second, Spencer has always said, "Expect the unexpected." and I have never listened, until that day of course.

"So, are you guys like, married?" Dana said, pouring us tea.

"Uh, no. Just best friends." I said picking up my tea cup.

"Oh, because you two would be a really nice couple." Dana said, sitting down

"Yeah, we get that a lot." Spencer said causally, then he tried to put his arm around me, but I pushed it away, and said, "Uh, dude,"

He just laughed, as did Dana, although I didn't do it to be funny, they seemed to be amused by it.

"So, Phil, um, I need to start my article for the newspaper on how you had to pretend to be dead, anything specific you want in it?" I said

"Um, Selene, we would appreciate if you didn't tell anyone." he answered

"What? I did all of this research, and Spencer had to grill the crap out of you to get you to admit you were Phil, Keely, and Dana and I can't tell anyone? This is beyond unfair."

"Selene, what if Tanner reads this article and he kidnaps one of us, what will we do then?" Phil said

"I have to tell them, I- I need to tell them, it's my job as a reporter to tell things like this, you have no idea how unfair this is."

"She won't tell anyone, I promise you, she won't." Spencer said

"Thank-you." Keely said.

"Thanks," Dana said

Firstly, I was absolutely appalled that Spencer said that I wouldn't say anything. After that, I couldn't handle the utmost of unfairness anymore, so I got up, and left. Spencer stayed in there a while, and then left too. He and didn't talk the whole time, I was afraid I would start him off on one of his rampages on why he's right, which are so annoying and boring, so nothing was said.

When he dropped me off at my house, I thanked the chauffer, but not Spencer, and went inside, and called the New York Times.

Meanwhile: in prison where Tanner is:

"Hey Kirkpatrick." Tanner huge burly in mate said.

"Hey Tiny." Tanner said back.

"I got you the Times, and the newest Cosmo." Tiny said

"Thanks."

Tanner took the New York Times and the Cosmopolitan from Tiny, he put the Cosmopolitan and put it under his pillow, and opened the Times to the Currents page, where he found an unusual article. The headline read: Selene Hunnington discovers that Phil, Keely, and Dana weren't dead.

The article read: Until a few weeks ago Selene Hunnington didn't know of the great mystery that was the death of Phil, Keely and Dana until she stumbled upon an article about they're death she had found in one of her Grandmother's books, "As soon as I saw the article, I knew I had to find out how they died," The 14 year old Bostonian says, when she discovered the address to the house they supposedly died in, she paid it a visit, and found that they WEREN'T dead. They left California, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where Selene lives. She found them alive and disguised as elderly people. -Kelly Matthews, New York Times

"Damn it! I have to find them, then Keely will be mine forever!"

Back in Boston: Spencer was enraged about something when he arrived at my house that day.

"Selene! Selene, come to this door now! I need to talk to you! Selene!" he said banging on the door

"Spencer, what is it?" My grandmother said opening the door.

"Oh, sorry, Mrs. Hunnington, can I talk to Selene?"

"Selene's last name is Hunnington, mine is Geller, she's right here, Selene,"

"Yeah," I said

"Address me properly young lady,"

"Oh, right , sorry. Yes, Grandmother?"

"Spencer is here to see you,"

"Oh," I said running down the stairs, my same shoes squeaked as I ran.

"Selene!" my grandmother said.

"Oh, I'm sorry Grandmother."

"That's alright," she said leaving the entry way.

"Hey Spen," I said.

"What is the matter with you!" he said

"What?"

"You told the New York times about Phil, Keely, and Dana. I can not believe you, you promised you wouldn't tell the newspaper, Selene, how could you do that?"

"Spen, I had to."

"Selene, you didn't have to do anything, I can't talk to you right now, I have to go."

"Bye." I said slamming the front door.

I felt horrible, my best friend was mad at me, I had nearly ruined these people's lives, and all because I wanted people to know I found them.

Meanwhile, back at prison, Tanner was concocting a plan to escape prison, he was successful. When he escaped, he headed straight for Boston. He was there within the hour, and the article about Selene, had a picture of the house, and the address, so finding it was very simple. When he arrived there, he knocked on the door, and Keely answered it.

"Hel-," Keely started, then she screamed, louder than anything Tanner had ever heard before, then he grabbed her, and covered her mouth. Phil and Dana ran to the door to see Keely and Tanner.

"Damn you! Let her go," Phil said, shoving Dana behind him

"No, I saw the article in the newspaper about how you pretended to be dead, so stupid, you should have known I'd be back." Tanner said

"Damn it, when will this all just be over with?" Dana said

"When I'm dead," Tanner said he threw his head back and laughed, then he picked up Keely and carried her down the steps of the house.

"Damn it, your not taking her away from us,"

"The one thing I want to do before I go back to prison, is have sex with Keely, and that's going to happen, so I suggest you back away from me now, or I'll have to kill you."

"What?" Phil said

"You heard me KILL you."

"She doesn't want you." Dana said

"I don't give a damn, she will, I'll give her time."

"It'll take a long time."

"I've got the time,"

"You won't get away with this,"

"Like hell I won't."

Tanner threw his head back and laughed again, and he slammed the door of his silver van, and got in the driver's seat., and drove off.

"Dad, why didn't you stop him?

"It wouldn't have helped. He's crazy, and I would have had to hit him, and you never hit a crazy person."

"Yeah, will he hurt mom?"

"Good Lord he better not."

I semi sensed something was up, so I had to see for myself. I went to Phil, Keely and Dana's house, and wanted to apologize. I walked up the steps and knocked on the door,

"Phil, Keely, Dana? I need to talk to you." I said

"Yes," Phil said

"Hi, you remember me right?"

"Yes,"

"I wanted to say-"

"Save it," Dana started, "My mom was just kidnapped by Tanner because of you. We'll probably never see her again, how could you do that to us?" Dana said beginning to cry.

I suddenly heard the words of Spencer, again and again, "how could you do that to them?" I felt so horrible about it, I began to cry also.

"I'm so sorry, I don't know why I told the newspaper, I shouldn't have, I feel terrible." I said, trying to get all of the words out before I burst into tears.

"I guess we forgive you, but if something happens to Keely,"

"It won't. I'm going to help you rescue her."