The four friends came out through the doors through the doors of the office building. Anna pulled out her phone from her pocket and suddenly gasped upon seeing the time.

"Oh!" She said in realization.

"That's right. I got to get to history class soon. I'll see you guys later!"

"Okay, we'll see you later." Jack said.

Anna made her way down the steps as she came out into the open schoolyard of the university. There were so many other students wandering around, some building to building while others She carried her backpack full of history books, it felt like she was carrying a bag of heavy bricks. As she walked along the cement walkway, is he then heard the someone calling out.

"Heads up!"

Anna turned to see a senior student throw a football offer head. As he turns to look the other way, she was suddenly hit by something in front of her. She was forced backwards, with the weight of her backpack she felt herself be forced down to the ground. Before feeling herself hit the hard ground below, she felt her hand be grabbed and she hung with the ground close from below her. She gazed upward at the person who had caught her in time. It was upon seeing the person that the young women looked in awe. For standing before her was a young browned haired man in his late twenties with brown hair and sideburns, wearing a dark business suit.

"You alright?" He asked.

Anna was still completely stunned by the looks of the man who had caught her from falling.

"Hi," She said, smiling.

To which she was snapped back into reality.

"OH UH...yeah I'm fine."

The young man then pulled her up onto her feet.

"Thank you," She said, hauling her back-back up again.

"Sorry about knocking into you." Said the young man.

"I was..."

"No, no, it's fine." Insisted Anna.

"I should have been watching where I was going, but I got a bit distracted and... You know."

Anna just chuckled as she looked at the stranger. He smiled in return.

"Well, thank goodness you weren't hurt," He said.

The man then came to the thought that he should introduce himself.

"Oh uh, my name is Hans." He said extending his hand to her.

"Hans Tertrome."

Anna reached out and shook his hand.

"I'm Anna," She said.

"It's nice to meet you, Anna," He said just before drawing his hand back.

"You too," She said back.

For a short while, Anna stared at Hans, completely entranced to how handsome and charming he was. Not even for a second could she look away from him as strange feelings came over her. Her palms felt sweet you and she felt a bit nervous as to what to say next. To which it came as a reminder of her class of history. Anna was snapped back to reality as she began to realize she was wasting time.

"Oh, shoot!" She cursed.

"I got to go, my history class's is going to start soon."

"Oh, well how about I walk with you there." Hans offered

Anna was without an answer, her cheeks began to turn red.

"Uh..."

"Please, I insist." He said.

"It's the least I can do for delaying you. If you turn out late then I'll take the blame for it."

Anna then finally accepted Han's request.

"Well...Okay." She said.

"Follow me."

Anna began walking ahead and Hans turned to follow her. As the two stumbled along the walkway, Anna turned to take another gaze to looked back to her, giving such a grin to her. Anna only turned away, blushing.

"So...Hans." Said Anna trying to figure out what to ask him.

"What is it that you do... I mean, what do you do for a living?"

"I work for my family company," Hans said.

"I am a supervisor for S, I, E."

Anna looked at him curiously.

"S, I, E?" She asked curiously.

"Southern Isles Enterprises," Hans answered.

To that answer, Anna was then familiarized to what company. They were a company that was resolved around conducting research and experimenting. The University had been acquainted with them for the most part. The CEO was once friends with professor Callaghan. This was the University that he had attended and he was always looking to be a provider to the University. He authorized to lend new technology, equipment and funding to them.

"OH, I think I've heard of that Company," Anna said.

"Um... Wasn't the CEO named Richard Tertrome?'

"Yes, he's was my father." Said Hans.

"Your father?" Anna said.

Hans shook his head.

"Yeah." Said Hans

"Right, now I remember." Said Anna.

"So what is it that you supervise?" Asked Anna curiously.

"I supervise pretty much the experiments or the research team we have." Hans explained.

"My father was always looking to come across any discovery that would place our company on the top. Now that he passed on and my brother has been named the CEO of the company, we've mainly been focused on inventing new machines that can be used to conduct experiments in science"

"Really?" Said Anna.

"Wow. That quite exciting."

Hans only shrugged.

"Not really," he said.

"For the most part, we've all ran into dead ends and had some malfunctions with several prototypes. So far we've hadn't been getting anywhere with it."

"Oh, well." Said Anna.

"I'm actually studying history."

"Oh really?" Asked Hans, turning to her.

"Yep." Said Anna.

"I'm looking for a career to something like a historian or a museum guide. If you wanna know, I can give a great lecture on the Roman Empire."

Hans shook his head, really impressed by the girls knowledge of History.

"Sounds quite interesting." Said Hans.

"Thank you." Said Anna, blushing a bit.

It was that time that they two hand came to the entrance of a four-floored building. Hans reached for the door and pulled it open for Anna.

"Ladies first," He said.

Anna smiled gratefully and walked through the doorway.

"Thank you, again," She said as she came into the building.

Hans came to the door and walked in with her. The two began walking down the hallway to their leftward from them. Up ahead was and opened a doorway to a classroom, where a few others walked inside for their lesson. Anna turned back toward Hans.

"Thank you for walking me here," She said.

Hans nodded his head to her. It was the least that he could have done after bumping into her earlier.

"Your welcome," He said.

"I'm just glad to be of some help."

"Well, I think I should bump into you more often." Said Anna, making Hans smirk.

Anna gave a chuckled afterwards.

"So, I'll see you around?" She said.

Anna then turned and began walking toward the classroom doorway. As she came not even a few feet from it, she was then stopped by the sound of Hans' voice.

"Wait!" He called out to her.

Anna stopped and looked back to Hans. She was curious as to what was the reason he had called for at this time. She was hoping that it wouldn't be long. He came over toward her, to which she turned to face him.

"I don't suppose," He said.

"Yeah?" Anna asked curiously.

"Would you like to go out with me?" Hans asked curiously.

Anna was left completely speechless at Hans's request. She didn't expect to a question like that to have ever been brought up. That was a major factor from someone she had just met.

"Uh, well," She said, trying to think of her answer.

"All so sudden."

"I'm not asking for like a big date," Hans said.

"But something like... Coffee or.."

Anna thought for a moment before she finally gave an answer.

"Well, Okay," She said, accepting his request.

"Great," Hans said, smiling.

"When is a good time for you?"

Anna thought for a moment. She didn't have any plans for tonight and there wasn't anything for her tomorrow.

"How about tonight?" She asked curiously.

"I can work with that," He said.

"What time shall I pick you up?"

"How about... Six?" Asked Anna.

"Then it's a date," He said as he reached into the breast pocket of his suit and pulled out a card.

"Here's my card," He said, handing her a dark grey card.

"Give m a call and we'll iron out the details."

Anna took the card and looked up to him.

"Sure," She said.

"See you tonight."

With that, Hans turned and began walking back down the hallway. Anna gazed down at the card he had given her. Upon the thin side that she faced was all his contact information. She felt exhilaration overcome her from the fact she had a date with a man, tonight for that manner. She felt as if she wanted to jump and squeal, a few times in her life had she couldn't stand to wait.


Jack was sitting at his desk that night. Down below on the desk top was the folder of Professor Adgar's research. Jack sat and though back to the hockey rink and heard what his brother had said. He gazed down to the folder that sat before him. He took hold of it with both his hands and held it up atop the folded bottom. The more he thought of the problem, the more eager he was to find a way to overcome the barrier before them.

After hearing what Jamie said to him today, he felt as if he was encouraged to no bounds. Knowing well that his young brother and sister all looked to him in such a way, he wanted to give time something to look up to. The barrier may seem impossible to overcome, but all Jack cared of was bringing hope to people while also helping his family.

"I can't." He said to himself.

"There's just... Something about this..."

Jack sat back in his seat has it leaned backward. It was true, there was but no will for him to let go of the opportunity. Somehow in some way, the promise of the research presented and the will to give hope and a chance for people to be given a new medicine that could potentially help them be relieved from their sickness they suffered seemed to drive Jack to push on despite the barrier before him. Yet the reason that

"I can't give this up." Jack said, thinking mostly of his family

As he sat thinking to himself, it was then he heard the echoing voices below of Jamie and Riley. They were each bantering on about the tryouts and how Riley had preformed.

Jack turned to his open doorway as he set the folder back down. He rose up from his desk chair and walked out of his room and down the stairs. As he came down to the main floor, he gazed over to the living room where he found Jamie and Riley reacting the hockey practice. Jenna was prancing along with the, barking and leaping around as they played. They ran around the open space between the TV and the couch, each of them holding small plastic hockey stick and pretending to pass the puck around to each other.

"Jamie comes in to take a shot!" Jamie said as he ran and dribbled the imaginary puck with his stick.

"Riley moves to intercept!" Riley said as she dashed in front Jamie ad pretended to snatch the puck from him.

"She takes the buck and moves it ahead!"

"Hey!" Jamie said as he turned and followed after his sister.

Jill, who was sitting on the couch, watching them play, turned to Jack. She smiled at him just as he did back to her. He turned back to Jamie and Riley and watched for another short while of them playing. It was then he came down the rest of the way and grabbed a hockey stick that sat up against the couch.

"But Jack comes in and steals the puck!"

The two turned to their eldest brother.

"He monomers the puck as he moves in for his daring shot.'

"I don't think so!" Riley said as she came forward.

Jack quickly moved aside from her.

"He skates down the ice, he's closing in!"

Jamie comes in front and tries to retake the puck from his older brother.

"Nu ah!" Jamie said as reached his stick out.

"Oh, but Jack monomers around him!" Jack said as he swung around Jamie.

"He shoots..."

Jack flung his stick up, shooting the imaginary puck to the net he envisioned was facing him. The puck flew and dug into the nets before it fell to the ice below.

"He Scores!" Jack cheered as he raised his stick above his head.

He then ran forward to his half siblings, scooping them up in his arms. He held them both up and twirled them around in the open space, right then he fell back and landed on the couch. For about a short while, they laid back on the long, comfortable furniture as they continued to laugh along with each other. Jill followed along with them.

"Well, that was quite the game." She commented, as their red fur husky came up on the couch.

The female red husky came up and licked Jamie, who laughed as he placed his hands upon the back of her neck.

"Jenna." He said, laughing.

Jack smirked and nodded his head.

"What can I say?" He asked.

"I'm the best at hockey, where do you think she gets it from?"

Riley chuckled and punched his side.

"Hey take it easy." He said, as he released them from his hold.

"I bruise easily you know."

Riley moved back from Jack, settling between him and their mother.

"I've got to say." Jack said.

"You never cease to impress me on the ice. You did fantastic; I won't be surprised that you make the team."

The young blond haired girl smiled.

"Thanks, Jack" She said.

"You promise that you'll come to every game?"

Jack shook his head yes.

"There's no way on earth that I'd miss any of them."

Jenna suddenly looked to the open widow across the room, her ears erect from the faint sound of a car's engine outside. Her near suspicions led to her to let out several woofs, leaping down off the furniture as she came before the window. Her sudden and familiar action was noticed by Jack and the family, who looked to her curiously.

"Jenna?" Jack said.

"What is it girl?"

The female husky continued to stand in front of the window, gazing out the front yard where the evening was turning into night. She only proceeded to bark, looking back at them for only a short second.

The young white haired man turned to his mother, who looked as curious as him. Jack turned and rose up from where he was sitting, Jamie followed suit. He came up behind his dog and gazed out to the front yard to see a long white limo parked at the side walk. He saw the driver walk up to the door at the very back of the vehicle. He opened the door and it was then he saw a man with brown hair and side burns, dressed in a white tuxedo step out of the limo and approach the house.