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Following

Inside

By: 24

He walked up to his lair, unlocked the door and opened it. Suddenly he knew that someone had been in his lair and he didn't have to wonder who it was. Inside the lair was a red rose on the table. He didn't like it when whoever was doing this left a red rose on his doorstep now put one in the house. This was too creepy he thought. He saw that his silver Halibatron was out and opened and there was a disk in it. Whoever it was accessed the DSA player. He quickly picked up the phone and dialed a familiar phone number.

"This is Sydney."

"I found another one and this one was inside my latest lair. The Halibatron was opened and a DSA was in it."

"They got inside the lair?"

"Yes. I don't like this Sydney. It was bad enough that whoever did this put a red rose on the porch, but this is entirely different. Whoever this is got inside the lair."

"Jarod, you know what you should do."

"What? Go back? No, I'm not that scared. I'm not going back there again."

"But whoever this was got inside your lair. This is not good at all. "

"I know Sydney, but I'm still not going back."

She watched as he exited the house and drive away. She then stepped out of her hiding place and walked to the house. She got her tools out and walked into the house closing the door.

She looked around. On the table was his computer, pez dispensers, twinkies and three pictures. She picked up the pez dispenser and popped a candy in her mouth then put it down. She looked at the pictures and looked at them then put them down. She wondered who they were and why he had them on the table. She then went into his room and found what looked like a silver briefcase. She picked it up and watched the disks that were in it. She saw when he was younger and asked where his mom and dad were, when they stopped his heart and when they shot Kenny. She couldn't believe what kind of life he had lived. She left the briefcase open with a disk in then left a red rose on the table.

TBC