Chapter 2

"Jess, baby, what's wrong?" Her dad looked at her.

"Why-why are you here dad?" Jess asked still terrified at what she was seeing.

"Do you honestly think that you killed me Jess?" Her dad asked her.

"That's what Lisa said." Jess said shaking.

"Look at me, Jess. Don't believe anything Lisa tells you, ok?" Her dad asked her.

"Ok," Jess replied. With that her dad just disappeared. Jess started quickly looking around where she was still trying to figure out what was going on. She eventually decided that she was just tired and she went to bed.

The Next Day (at Jess's)

Jess woke up without her alarm clock going off. She rolled over and looked at her clock. It was 9 am. "Oh, I am soooo... dead." Jess thought to herself. She immediately got out of bed and started to get ready for work. She did it in record time. 20 minutes later she was heading out the door to go to work.

At the Office

"Nick, calm down." Antonio was trying to calm Nicole down. She was freaking out because it was 9 am and Jess still wasn't at work.

"Antonio, how can you say that? Jess should be here by now. She's never late." Nicole said in a very worried tone.

"I'm sure she'll be here soon, Nicole." Antonio said still trying to calm Nicole down.

"I hope your right, Antonio." Nicole sat down at her desk and stayed there until Jess got to work. Jess walked off of the elevator 45 minutes later. "Jess, there you are, where have you been?" Nicole asked, very relieved that she was ok.

"My alarm clock didn't go off, I didn't wake up until 9. Does Pollock know I'm late?" Jess asked in a slightly scared voice.

"He always knows everything." Antonio said without looking up from his computer.

"I'm so dead." Jess said.

At that time Pollock walked around the corner. "Mastriani, nice to see you here." Pollock said. Jess closed her eyes wishing everything would go away. "Why are you late, agent?"

"Sir, my alarm clock didn't go off, I didn't get up until 9, I'm sorry, sir." Jess said almost frantic.

"Fine, I'll let you off this time, but if it happens again-" Pollock told her sternly.

"Thank you sir." Jess said as she breathed a sigh of relief. So they all went to work on the case until lunch.

"Jess," Nicole asked Jess to get her attention, "You want to get some lunch?"

"Yea, sure." Jess told her. So they both got their stuff together and got ready to leave. Nicole was worried about Jess but she decided not to say anything. The ride down the elevator was long and silent. Once the elevator doors opened at the car garage, Jess saw the last person that she wanted to see, Lisa. "Hey, Nicole, how about I meet you there?"

Nicole looked at Lisa then at Jess. "Yea, that's fine." Nicole walked to her car and left.

"What are you doing here?" Jess asked Lisa angrily.

"I figured you would've calmed down by now." Lisa said.

"From what?" Jess asked. She had calmed down a little.

"You know, from yester day?" Lisa reminded Jess.

"Oh, right. No I haven't." Jess said sarcastically.

"Wow, I'm surprised." Lisa said.

"Why don't you leave, now?" Jess asked her.

"We weren't finished though." Lisa told Jess.

"Yes we were." Jess said as she started to walk off.

"Well, you know, I know things about your father that you don't know." Lisa said.

Jess stopped walking, "You know what, I don't care. I don't believe anything that you say anymore." Jess said as she turned around and looked at Lisa. "Now, I'm leaving."

"Fine, but I know secrets that you will never know." Lisa yelled. Jess just got into her car and left. About 10 minutes later, she met up with Nicole.

"Hey, sorry it took so long" Jess said as she sat down at the table where Nicole was sitting.

"That's ok. Hey look, is everything alright Jess?" Nicole asked.

"Yeah," Jess replied.

"Then why did you say that you killed your dad?" Nicole asked.

"Nick, I don't want to talk about it. Everything is ok, alright?" Jess told Nicole.

"Jess, do you call saying that you killed your dad and then storming out of a bar, ok?" Nicole asked worriedly. She was hoping to get through to Jess.

"No, but everything is ok." Jess said.

"Alright Jess, I'm just worried." Nicole told her.

"I know, but I'll tell you eventually, just not right now." Jess said.

"Ok," Nicole said.