Hey ppl…sorry but I've been rather busy! Between karate, softball, running, and all my Algebra II HW, not to mention reading my English book for my book report! (Flops down) but hopefully I'll be in great shape before School Softball tryouts! So I'm going to try to update on Saturdays and Wednesdays…those are my least busy days…and mebeh even Mondays too, not this Monday though, it's the book sale at the library and I'm helping! WHOO! Books for a buck and less!

Special thanks to Callie, Missmellis, and Digidestined7 for reviewing!

"Hello?" Jack knocked against the door and pressed the doorbell once, it looked really dark inside and so far there had been no sound either. He pressed his nose against the glass and sighed, then phased through the door.

"Aunt Jazz?" He walked into the kitchen and saw a note resting on the countertop, it was addressed to him.

Jack,

I'm so sorry about not being able to be here, I had to run out and check on one of my patients, if you're hungry there's some broccoli and cheese in the fridge. I'll be home hopefully around 5:30.

-Jazz

Jack sighed and his hair flew back in a light breath of air as the air conditioning started up. He walked around to the back door and let in the dog, a brown and white mutt. It panted at him and licked his hand, begging for some treats.

He sat down on a kitchen chair, rubbing the dog's head, it was going to be a while before his aunt got home, or even her husband for that matter. Persephone, the dog, jumped up and into his lap, where she gazed into Jack's eyes with a sorrowful look.

"I've missed you too girl," he crooned and massaged the dog's soft ears.

About seven hours later…

Jack had already put the dog out, and had a small meal of the broccoli; that was when the door finally creaked open and his Aunt Jazz waddled in, her belly large from the eighth month of her pregnancy.

"Jack! I'm so sorry, but…" Jazz cringed slightly as the baby kicked, "I had a problem with a patient and there was all this confusion at the ward and one of my patients nearly got turned out when he's not anywhere near the end of his treatment! But how are you?"

Jack shook his head at his mid-forty-year-old aunt, "You're just the same as I remember Aunt Jazz, but I just came by to say 'Au revoir' before I jet off to college again, new semester starting, you know…"

She gave him a doubtful look, "If that was all you really needed to say, why did you wait around for about eight hours?"

He couldn't hide anything from Jazz; Jack sighed and let his thoughts branch out, "It all started when I first got to my dorm last year…"

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!" Annie followed the instructions of Ian as he led them thorough the stretches, it was later in the day, probably around six o'clock, and they were almost finished for the day. It had been an entire day of grueling work and not to mention about a total of ten miles in a combination of jogging and sprints.

"Alright crew, good job!" Ian shouted to the panting interns, they all gave a simultaneous tired smile and then picked up their exhausted legs and started on their way from the large exercise room in the mansion to the dining hall, there, heaps of food sat steaming on enormous plates.

Annie dropped into a chair and sighed, barely finding enough energy to pick up her fork and a serving spoon to dish out the vegetables, meat, and soft wheat dinner rolls. Her head hurt from the fifty push-ups, five hundred crunches, and numerous amounts of cattas(Ju Jitsu combinations).

Don't fall asleep…her tired mind screamed, begging her to fill up with energy and wait until she had showered; it would certainly stink if Vladimir Plasmius found out about her borrowing his ghost portal for a day, there would be even worse results if he somehow became her ultimate enemy.

Somehow, Annie managed to stay awake through the dinner, even as others around her snoozed. She barely managed to keep her eyelids open and left the moment after Vlad had excused himself.

Like a wilted flower, Annie fell against her door and fumbled with the handle; she managed to open it after a minute and fell down on the floor just inside, where her eyelids drooped and she fell immediately into a deep slumber.

There was a relaxed feel in the air when Annie woke up, she checked her watch and found that it was already seven! "Oh shit…" she whispered under her breath and leapt up and out the door to see that it was entirely deserted. She picked up her feet and began to run up the corridor in the path she had traveled yesterday.

I cant believe I overslept! Her mind whined as her body leapt up stairs by twos and landed on the top without any energy left in her body. Annie's father had told her about the aftermath of a marathon from his younger days, but she had always thought he had been joking, over exaggerating, or something in that vicinity. Never had she imagined that he had been modest in his description of the pain.

"ANNIE!" She ran straight into Mandy and the two girls collided and fell down the entire flight of stairs. The cheerleader groaned, "Well…doesn't that happen every time…yeah. But anyways, we forgot to tell you that every other day we have a light workout that helps to get the lactic acid out of your muscles, but that's at two and it only lasts for an hour."

"Oh…" Annie gave the other girl a tired smile, "And where's breakfast?"

"Same place, but they set the food out at six-thirty, so if you want some hot food, you'd better hurry up; the rest of the time is yours to do whatever."

Mandy smiled, letting a small sigh escape, then turned and climbed back up the stairs.

Again, I'm so sorry about the lateness of this but I'm SO FREAKIN BUSY!