A.N.: Okay, this chapter is dedicated, once again, to Nikki a.k.a PrudencePiperHalliwell for being the first reviewer to my last chapter and for being my only reviewer to review to every chapter. Anyway, I love all your reviews. And I heard that the fifth 1-800 book might not be out until 2008. I think I need to go have a good long cry. Your know, I looked on the little 'my stats' section of my thingy and there are so many people who have me under their favorites or author alerts, but they never review. That makes me sad. I really want to know what you guys think. Oh well. Let's just go onto the reviews:

Chapter 6

PrudencePiperHalliwell: Thanks so much for reviewing.

flonshoe: Thanks so much for the applause. I appreciate it. And the best? Wow, I've never heard that one before. I love making people laugh, so I'm glad that I make you laugh. That's what I'm here for. And with Rob calling Jess baby, that's just something that I related to myself. Some people might hate it if they were called baby, but I don't and I'm not like all girls.

wabibito: I know what you mean. If I'm not in the mood to review or even in a really bad mood, my reviews get bad. It's okay, I don't mind. Much. Hehehe. Anyway, thanks for the review.

Uh. Yeah: I would like to know what you idea is. I'm not revealing anything until the next chapter. I want to know what you think is up with Doug; just to see if that's what's going to really happen. But, yes you will have to wait, patiently, I hope.

madmaddy: Thanks so much for loving my story. And you'll find out more about Doug in the next chapter.

kittykatangel518: (sarcastic) Thanks, you'll only review when you're bored. (end sarcasticness) As I said before, everything with Doug will be found out in the next chapter. And yes, Ruth does seem to interrupt and ruin everything. She'll do it more in this chapter, too.

nikki007: Yes, Rob is yummy. Sometimes I just want to eat him all up if you know what I mean. And Doug… Look up at my other responses about Doug.

sparklinqt87: Yes, I was glad the last chapter was longer too. Thanks so much for reviewing.

moovalous3: Thanks so much, and as I said before, look up at my other responses to find out about Doug. I hate repeating myself a million times. It gets boring after a while. No offense to not answering you personally.

Anywien: Thanks so much for forgiving me. I bow down to your graciousness. Yes, sometimes longer is better. Thanks for the review.

Tessadragon: As I said before, I just found out that if the next book comes out, it would be in 2008 or later. Thanks for liking my story and for the review. I love new reviewers.

Chapter 1

PrudencePiperHalliwell: Thanks for the review. I appreciate it and I love you.

Me'shell: Was that a flamer to my story? It totally confused me. Did you hate the 1-800 books or my story? That was a totally confusing review.

Chapter 2

PrudencePiperHalliwell: Thanks so much for the review. You are awesome.

Chapter 3

Charmaine: Um…did you read the rest of the story? Rob's present was already figured out. And this story will probably be about 15 chapters before it's done and there is a sequel.


Chapter 7

I groaned loudly thinking of the inconvenience of having Ruth as a best friend. I looked at Rob and could tell he was thinking the same thing. I was too comfortable on Rob's lap to even think about getting off, so I just waited for her to find us.

A few seconds later, Ruth came barging straight into my room. "Jess…" She broke off thought as she saw me sitting on Rob's lap.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Were you crying?" She was staring at me sort of like trying to see into my mind and then did a quick look over before she looked into my eyes.

I closed my eyes and put my head in Rob's chest. I was feeling comfortable listening to his heart beating and his rhythmic breathing. I heard his chest rumble as he said to Ruth, "She's just having a bad day."

"Oh, come on. That's a stupid excuse." I heard the scowl in her voice and the sound of disdain she gave. "Anyway, I got this in the mail yesterday." She threw a letter on my bed.

I turned my head to look at it. All I did was stare at it. Rob pulled one of his arms from around my waist and leaned over a little to take it off my sheets. My hands were clutching Rob's shirt, so I had to unclench them when he put the letter in front of me. I sort of turned around in his lap as I opened it.

It was from Rosemary. She was the person from 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU. She sent me pictures of children who went missing and wanted to be found. She always made sure for me that the children wanted to be found before she sent me their picture.

"You weren't here yesterday by the time the mail came, so I thought you wouldn't mind if I gave it to you today." Ruth explained to me as I looked at the picture of a cute little boy smiling at the camera. I nodded but it was sort of difficult to do considering Rob had his chin leaning on my shoulder so he could read the letter over my shoulder.

Dear Jess,

I hope you're having a good holiday season. The picture enclosed is of Adam Cline. He was six years old when he disappeared from his home in part of the Bronx in New York. His parents have given up hope of ever seeing him again. The police have no leads and you're their only hope. Thank you so much for doing this Jess; it is a relief for all of us.

Yours truly,

Rosemary

Once I had finished reading the letter I said, "Thanks for bringing it over Ruth. What are you doing here this early? The dinner is starting at two; I thought you would have been here closer to then." I looked at my watch vaguely and saw that it was only quarter after one. Ruth and her family was Jewish, but they were still coming to our Christmas dinner. I think that only reason they were doing that was because they liked our parents food too much to decline the invitation.

She rolled her eyes and said, "Well, I'm sorry to not want to spend all that much time with Skip." Ruth and her twin brother, Skip, never really get along. I don't think that Ruth likes the fact that Skip has a known crush on me. Rob doesn't really know all about that, but I think that he wouldn't like it either.

Ruth walked closer to the door and said, "Oh, and I wanted to tell you that I talked to Karen Sue yesterday at the mall." She had a poisonous sound in her voice as she said this. "I think I might have a few ideas that might help you out. I'll talk to you about them later."

"What do you mean you have some ideas?" Rob asked this. He had tightened his hold on me a little and was looking at Ruth with an angry look in his eyes.

"Oh, Jess didn't tell you? The court date is in two weeks. You know, the one where Karen Sue is suing Jess for bruising her nose."

"You didn't tell me it was in two weeks." He looked at me with an incredulous look.

"Sorry, I forgot." I sighed and said, "I'll deal with that after the holidays are all over."

"Fine." And at that Ruth walked out of my room and started walking downstairs.

We stayed up in my room for another half an hour before my mom called us down. Don't get any ideas. All we did was kiss a little.

When we sat down at dinner we all made some polite talk. It was loud in the dining room due to the sixteen people sitting there. If you want to know why there were sixteen people you have to think about me, and Rob. My parents, then there was Doug and his girlfriend, Tasha Tompkins and her family. Then there was Mike and his girlfriend, Claire Lippman and her parents. Then, of course, the Abromowitz. All together it totals sixteen. Even if I was mad at Doug I did have to feel a little bad for him. He didn't like being around all that many people.

I heard my dad ask Rob, "How was the wedding yesterday?"

He took a look at me and I saw the desire in his gaze as he said, "It was really nice."

"That's good."

The phone rang and my mom was half way out of her seat before I said, "Mom, don't bother. I'll get it. Just sit and be a good little hostess."

Everyone laughed at that as I walked out of the room to pick up the phone. "Hello?"

"Jess, it's Cyrus…"


A.N.: So, I left it as a cliffhanger. I know, I hate cliffhangers myself, but I couldn't resist. So, how was it? I've been very good at updating lately. All of my stories have been updated within the last week.