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Alrighty, here is the anxiously awaited for, next chapter! Oh yes, I know, you're all excited! Hehe.

Erik drove onto the grocery store, inspecting the sky along the way. It was still dark, and there were very few rain drops, but by looking at the sky he knew there was going to be a storm soon, so he knew they had to shop fast.

When Erik pulled into Kroger, he quickly unbuckled himself and got out of the car. He opened up Lotte's door, as she was trying to figure out how to un-do her seatbelt, and Lauren had already got out of her chair, and was now standing by Erik.

Lotte eventually got the seat belt off and Erik picked her up and let her stand next to her sister.

"Alright now, we need to shop fast." Erik told them as they were walking towards the entrance. Erik noticed how a lot of people were leaving the grocery store, bags in their arms, as if a tornado was about to hit them then and there.

Lotte and Lauren ran through the automatic sliding doors and once they saw the huge line of carts, they immediatley grabbed one and was pulling it out of the line. Erik ran towards them and pulled it out, just in case they injured somebody, and walked through another set of sliding doors into the grocery store.

Lauren and Lotte were clinging to the cart, trying to step onto it and ride in it, but Erik kept gently pushing them off. Sighing, as they would not stop trying to get themselves into the cart, he picked up Lotte and put her into the little child's seat in front of the cart. He then picked up Lauren and set her in the back of the cart.

"Now, what should we get first?" Erik asked, mainly to himself.

"Pizza!" Lotte squealed.

"Yeah! Pizza!" Lauren repeated.

Erik sighed. Christine had given him strict orders not to feed them pizza.

"Uh, how about chicken?"

"Pizza!" They squealed together.

"Well, er, pizza is off the menu tonight. What else do you want to eat?"

Lauren and Lotte quivered their lips, giving Erik the puppy face. He sighed. This wasn't going to be easy, trying to feed them something other than pizza.

"Oh, look, chicken!" Erik said, pointing to some chicken breasts that were sitting in a large open freezer.

"Pizza dang it!" Lotte screeched. Erik thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head.

"Now where did you learn that?" Erik asked, shocked. "You don't say that to people! Use your manners."

"Dang it, dang it, dang it!" Lotte squealed with glee. Erik rolled his eyes and snatched a small frozen pizza from the freezer. He set it in the cart next to Lauren, and gleefully, she hugged the pizza box.

"What else do we need?" Erik murmured. He went to the fruit section and grabbed four oranges and a pack of bananas. They needed something healthy.

It took Erik about forty five minutes to grab everything he needed. He would have gotten everything in twenty minutes, but whenever he tried to stick something in the cart that Lauren or Lotte didn't like, they threw it back out.

Erik rushed to the check out line, for as he could see out the large glass window, it was almost pitch black outside, and it was only 5:17. Light rain was coming down, and Erik saw from the looks of it that the grocery store was almost deserted, and it looked as if it was about to close up for the day.

Erik put the food on the little table, with a little help from a struggling Lotte and a happy Lauren. They really wanted that pizza.

Once all the food was in the grocery bags, Erik asked the check out lady,

"Excuse me, ma'am?"

The woman looked at him, saw his mask, and twitched. "Yeah?"

Erik ignored her twitching eye. "Do you know why everyone here is closing up?"

"The storm," She said simply, motioning her head towards the window. "It's going to be one of the worst storms we've ever had, they say."

"How bad?"

"Really bad. They keep saying that tornados are going to hit all over the place, and I don't blame 'em." She looked outside.

Erik payed for the groceries and rolled the cart outside, the Lotte and Lauren squealing their heads off, as if trying not to get hit by the rain. As they reached the car, Erik unlocked the car doors and set Lauren and Lotte inside. He shut the doors behind them and quickly set all of the groceries in the trunk.

Erik hopped in the car when he was done loading. He put his seatbelt on and checked to see if Lauren's and Lotte's were on, and they were, and he turned on the radio.

"...Well as you can see folks, the weather isn't too nice out there..."

You think? Erik thought, annoyed.

"...Tornado warnings are issued now until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, instead of 2:00. The power is still out in some areas, so get some flashlights or candles with you. We still aren't sure when exactly the power will be back, but if it does come back, it won't be back for long..."

Erik switched off the radio. He saw through his mirror that Lauren and Lotte were looking out the window, and they were shaking.

"Ewik?" Lotte asked tearfully.

"Yes dearest?" Erik asked, trying not to sound frightened.

"Is there gonna be a tornado? A weally scary tornado?"

Erik didn't know what to say. He couldn't lie to her, because obviously there was going to be a tornado. So the only thing he could think to say was,

"I don't want you girls to think about it, okay? Once we get home, I promise to make you some pizza and we can watch a movie. How does that sound?"

"Yay!" Lauren clapped. Erik smiled. But Lotte still looked frightened.

"What is it, Lotte?" Erik asked.

Lotte shook her head and covered her eyes with her hands. When Erik reached their house, he pulled in the driveway and shut the garage door behind him. He got out and unbuckled their seatbelts, since they were too shaky to do it themselves. He walked up to the front door, unlocked it, and let them run inside. He carried all the groceries in, and it took him only 4 trips to grab all of the groceries.

When inside, Erik started to unload the food. Unfortunatley, the power was still out, so he couldn't make them the pizza. Erik picked up the phone, for someone had called. Was there a bit of power when he was at the grocery store? Erik pressed the button on his phone to see who called, and he saw that it read:

Christine's Cell

5:01 PM

Message

Erik clicked the message button, and surprisingly, it played. That was really strange. He didn't even know if he could see who had called when the power was out. Oh well.

"Hey Erik, it's Christine. I was just wondering how it was going down there. Is everything okay? I know you might not get this message for a while, the power was out over here for a little bit. We're suppose to have some big storms they say. Er...yeah, well hopefully Raoul and I will be back in time. I'll call and let you know. Call me back when you get this message, or when the power comes back. Take care."

Drat! Why did the power have to be out? Erik grunted and walked into the living room, finding Lotte and Lauren hiding under some blankets.

"Pizza?" Lauren asked when she peeked her head out from the blanket.

"I'm sorry girls," Erik said, sitting down next to them. "The power is still out. But tell you what? Right when the power comes back I will start to make it."

"Otay." Lotte squirmed under the blanket.

"How about a game?" Erik asked, pulling the blanket down from their heads so he could see their faces. Lauren bit her lip and looked around the room, as if trying to find something, and Lotte was just stiff, as if trying to hide something.

Out of nowhere, a pfffft noise came from Lotte, and Lauren jumped off the couch and squealed,

"Ewww! Lotte tooted!" She squealed, plugging her nose and jumping onto Erik's lap. Erik couldn't help but smile, it was pretty funny. And besides, it was good to have some humor at this hour.

Lotte peeped up at them from her position on the couch. She wasn't angry or embarrased, but she was smiling. "Hehe!" She laughed, and tooted again.

"Ewww! We're all gonna die!" Lauren screeched, and jumped off Erik, running into the kitchen. "Open a window!" She yelped.

Erik had to move up from his spot on the couch, for that did smell really bad. Lotte tooted again, giggling, and Erik finally said,

"Okay! Okay! We get it. Please stop . . . farting. It's starting to smell bad and we can't open a window."

Lotte only giggled and ran into the kitchen towards Lauren, who was screaming bloody murder as Lotte chased her around. Once more, Lotte tooted.

"Stop it!" Lauren yelled.

"I can't!" Lotte squealed.

Erik rolled his eyes and walked into the kitchen as the two girls chased each other. But just then, Erik saw something out of the corner of his eye. It was the man in black, outside the window, staring at him. Erik's eyes opened wide in shock, and he stared at the man. But the man didn't move at all.

"Girls, get in the basement now!" Erik yelled. Lauren and Lotte stopped running and screaming, thinking that this was some kind of joke. Erik gave them a very serious look and seeing the man outside the window, they screamed and did as they were told.

The man in black knocked on the window. If he stayed out there long enough, he might've been blown away by the harsh wind. Who was this guy? Well Erik wasn't going to let a complete stranger dressed in all black and who had a ski mask on into his house.

The man out the window seemed to be annoyed with Erik. He motioned with his hand in a way so it looked like he was opening a door knob. Moving towards the door, Erik gently pulled out his Punjab lasso and had it behind his back, ready to srike this maniac.

Erik opened the door slowly, and the man outside flew inside without waiting for the door to be opened fully. But as quick as a wink, Erik flew over to the man, wrestled him to the ground, and put the Punjab lasso around the man's neck. But the other man was quick too. He had his hand at the level of his eye.

Erik was a bit confused. How did he know to do that? Curious as to who this man was, Erik pulled off the ski mask.

Nadir!

"What the hell, Nadir!" Erik groaned, throwing the ski mask back on his friend's face. Erik stood up and put the Punjab lasso in his pocket. "Were you trying to give me and the girl's a heart attack?"

"No, no, not at all," Nadir said, standing up.

"Why didn't you just take that mask off outside so I knew it was you? I could've killed you!"

"Huh. I never thought about that."

Erik rolled his eyes and plopped down on the couch. "Why are you here, anyway? Aren't you suppose to be at a golf trip?"

"Yeah but I left that place. I was losing like hell. I was never good at golf."

"But why are you here?"

"I was uh . . . scared, I guess."

Erik chuckled. "Nadir? Scared? You're funny. Very funny. Now tell me the truth, why were you here."

"I'm not joking!" Nadir exclaimed, with a very serious face. "I was scared out of my mind. Jeez, I almost pissed my pants!"

Erik chuckled again. But then asked, "Why are you wearing all black?"

Nadir looked at himself and said, "All of my clothes are in the wash."

"And what's with the ski mask?" Erik asked amused.

"I was cold."

"And you don't have any normal hats? You're lucky the police didn't catch you. You look like a professional burglar."

"I do?" Nadir inspected himself and grinned. "I do!"

"Is that a good thing?" Erik protested. But before Nadir could speak, Lauren had a plastic baseball bat in her hand and was whacking at Nadir. Lotte also came screaming up the stairs and started to punch Nadir in any place she could reach.

"Take that, robber!" Lotte squealed with delight, as she punched the man.

"No, girls, stop!" Erik commanded. But the girls didn't.

And just then, Lauren whacked him in his balls.

"My nards! She hit my nards!" And, clutching his lower area, he fell to the ground and moaned, as Lotte and Lauren were still whacking at him.

"Stop it!" Erik roared. The girls stopped.

"See Ewik! We got the burglar!" Lotte smiled with glee. Erik scratched the back of his neck.

"Um, girls, he wasn't a burglar. This is my friend, Nadir."

Lauren and Lotte stared at Erik for a few moments, then glanced at Nadir. Lauren dropped her baseball bat and the girls ran up to Nadir and hugged him. They had to wrap their arms around his back, for he was clutching onto his 'nards' and kneeling on the floor, hoping he wouldn't fall over dead.

"Hi Nadir!" The two girls exclaimed. Erik gave a chuckle.