"Hello?" He spoke softly as slumber threatened to take over him. "Oh hey, is everything ok?"
He stood up as he listened to the alarmed voice on the other end.

"Ok, calm down." He paused. "I'll be right there."
He hung up and he looked at the digital clock, alarmed that his boss' wife was calling him at 5:00 pm. He raced out the room, his bag in his hand and his cell in the other.

As he reached the car his phone rang again, this time when he looked at the caller ID it read home.

"Hello." He sighed. "Oh hey Danielle, no I can't, there's an emergency."

As he listened to his daughter's voice, he sighed again as he looked at his watch. "Oh hey, honey, I'll come over once I'm done ok? Is your mother there?" he paused again to listen once more. "What do you mean 'no'? Where did she go?"
He stopped walking and stood still for a minute.

"I'll tell you what, when I'm done at the emergency, I'll call you and if she's still not back, I'll go around town looking for her ok?"
Danielle agreed and hung up, so he got in the car and drove off.

"Oh Bree, I don't wanna be a bitch and leave you, but Tom's gotta go out in half an hour and I promised I'd make him dinner." Lynette broke her news to the woman in front of her. Even Lynette was amazed that they had walked so far without even recognizing it.

"Oh no, don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I'm just glad you were able to listen to me at all." Bree smiled and Lynette hugged her.

"Would you like me to walk you back?"

"No, thank you Lynette, I'm going to just walk around a little longer to clear my head." Bree explained and Lynette smiled as she began to walk back to Wisteria Lane, waving to her friend as she did so.

"Bye Bree." She called and Bree waved also.

"Bye Lynette." Bree began to walk around the part of town that she rarely visited as it began to get dark. She noticed something she had never noticed before; there was a small lake that cut through the area. She walked over to it, softly treading on the ground as she came to lean against the bridge railing, evening traffic rushing behind her but she continued to stare at the black waters for a long time.

Rex was angry with his boss. He knew his boss should've known better than to think he was having a heart attack when all it was, was a touch of heart burn. Another damn false alarm! He growled.

He got into his car as it started to rain, lightly at first, but it was growing heavier by the second. Reaching over to pick up his cell phone that had been suddenly discarded in the 'emergency medical crisis' he dialled his home number, immediately concerned when Danielle answered.

"She not home yet?" he asked concern etching on his face when his daughter confirmed his fear. "Ok, I'm gonna drive around her regular places, see if she's hanging out town somewhere. You phone her friends, numbers are on the fridge, see if they have seen her or if she is there, got that?"

He shut off his cell phone and sighed before starting up the engine and driving to the places his wife regularly went.

Half an hour later, Danielle had phoned all her mom's friends and had only got a positive response from Lynette so she eagerly phoned her dad and fed him the information that Lynette had given him just as Rex had given up hope and was ready to come home.

"She said she left her somewhere in the other side of town, next to that line of stores, the one with the hairdresser and the small grocery store." Danielle explained through the phone, screaming slightly as lightning began to flash and thunder began to boom. "Daddy, please find her."

With the confirmation that he would, she sighed, placing the phone down on the kitchen table, shuddering as the storm progressed.

Rex drove furiously through the town to the other side, angry to be stopped by the police.

"Sir, do you realise that you were speeding?" the policeman asked.

"Yes, and I have to find my wife, she's somewhere out there in this!" Rex exclaimed, desperation shining through.
"I'm sure your wife can take care of herself sir. I'll need to give you a ticket." The policeman replied.

"Listen, she's not thinking straight, I need to find her before she gets lost in this! Take my card and I'll come to the station tomorrow, I promise, and if I don't, come to this address and ask for Mr Van De Kamp, please, I am begging you. I need to find her." Rex pleaded with the officer, handing him a business card and the officer relented after Rex' persuasion.

Rex thanked the officer and began to drive away when he made a wrong turn onto the bridge.

"Geez!" he mumbled to himself as he joined the back of the queue of cars and he slammed his hands hard down on the steering wheel. "What do you want from me!" He yelled loudly. When he looked to his side, his attention was drawn to a familiar looking person leaning near the railing, seemingly listening to the claps of thunder and watching the flashes of lightning as if it were some kind of wayward movie.

"Bree…?" he whispered before leaning towards the side, opening the door of the black bodied Tahoe and approached the red headed woman.

"BREE!" He yelled over the erupting clap of thunder and the woman turned around to face him, her face almost lighting up when she saw him.

He held open the passenger door, waiting for her to get in, which she did after a moment of silent persuasion. He ran round to the drivers' side and eagerly climbed in, turning to face her.

"What were you thinking?" he asked once the traffic had started to shift and they were on their way.

"I lost track of time." She looked at him, the fire was back in her eyes and she was ready to fight.

"Lost track of time?" He questioned. "For god's sake Bree, anything could have happened in this weather!"
The storm overhead continued to progress until it was as bad as the last one; Wisteria Lane only got one storm yearly and it sometimes continued for days until it was at a huge high peak, the climax of the storm coming together to create a void in which anyone can get lost.

"I'm an adult Rex, don't treat me like I'm a damn child! What do you care anyway?" She spoke, her anger threading through and he could hear it in every word she spoke.

"I do care even if you don't believe it Bree." He explained, turning right at the traffic light. They were then on their way home. "I'm sorry for overreacting, but Danielle and I were very worried."

Bree almost laughed but refrained from saying anything in response to that.

"Just drop me off home and you can go back to the motel." She changed the subject almost completely.

"I can't, I told the officer he could come round tomorrow if I forgot to collect my ticket." He sighed.

"Ticket?" she answered with a question.

"Yes, I got stopped for speeding but I was so desperate to make sure nothing happened to you…" He paused. "For Danielle's sake that I told him to come round to our house if I didn't go to the station in the morning and give me the ticket."
"Well what the hell did you have to go and get a damn speeding ticket for?" she asked, trying desperately to cover her hurt with anger.

"Forget it Bree." He growled. "I'm just gonna drop you off home."