I kiss Lot before I get out of the car. As I enter the restaurant I hear a squeal.

As Gwen glomps me and we both almost fall over she asks, "Can we go over to his place tonight?!"

"I asked him and he said…" pausing for dramatic effect, "yes, yes we can go over tonight!"

She almost knocks me down again then skips away to organize the cooking section again. Karla comes over and wonders, "Does she always get this excited about the paranormal?"

"Unfortunately, yes she does. If she glomps me again I'm not going to have a spine left because it's going to be broken." I say this as Karla laughs at me. "Alright then giggly go make sure the Children's section is picked up."

I go unlock the front doors so people can enter and fire up the small coffee shop we have. Karla and Gwen have already fired up the ovens for our pastries, courtesy of Mr. Lothar. God, I think to myself, I have to love that man, if only for his cooking skills.

Work went by without a hitch, we managed to bake the exact amount of pastries needed for the day and no cranky people came in for books. One super-cranky person came in, but after he had some coffee in his system he was rather pleasant.

Finally closing hour came, we cleaned up and off we were. We had to go past the apartment for all of Gwen's stuff. She has all sorts of readers and testers and whatnot; I always become so confused of which each thing is and does.

"Hurry up Gwen, we don't want to sit here for hours!" yells Karla who is always impatient.

"Alright, alright don't get your panties in a bundle!" Gwen yells back as I laugh at them both.

We wait about 5 minutes, not quite long enough for Karla to give Gwen too much heckling. As I back out of the driveway I feel a sudden terrible foreboding. I don't mention it because it'd just make Gwen worried too.

We make it to his apartment; I let us in because he isn't home from work yet. I take two steps and everything spins and goes black…

As I came to, all I heard at first was voices.

"Is she okay?! Do we need to call an ambulance??"

"No, Karla, we don't. She's coming around. Just give her another minute or two."

I open my eyes to see lights, lots of lights. I grumble and try to turn over but seem unable to move. I try again, still unable to move. Gwen sees my trouble and immediately looks concerned.

"You okay?"

"I can't move"

"What? What do you mean you can't move?"

"Well, since you asked that question I'm going to assume nothings on me. How long was I out?"

"Oh, about 30 seconds, but it seemed like HOURS!" exclaimed Karla, obviously happier I wasn't dead or dying.

"Try moving again"

I try but it's just a futile as before, "You're the expert Gwen is anything sitting on me and what caused me to blackout in the first place?"

"I'm not sure; you walked into the room first, so we ended up catching you as you fell. And I feel whatever is here, but I'm not sure exactly where it is or what it's doing…"

As she's speaking everything get's tuned out as I start to hear this babbling coming from the rest of the house, the shoes clacking on the wood and tile floors, the reason I am unable to move, a huge shaggy dog is sitting on my chest. He has his tongue lolling out the side of his mouth, staring.

I stare back, unsure of what to do. I ask, "Would you please get off my chest?" He continues to stare then licks me across the face and bounds off only to fly back to sit next to me, rather excited looking.

After I recover from shock, I wipe off my face and sit up with my legs crossed facing him. I reach out and scratch his head. He seems to love it because he leans into my hand. I finally look up at Gwen and Karla; they both are staring with their mouths hanging open. Then come the questions.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm petting the dog that was sitting on my chest. He's why I was unable to get up. Do you guys hear all that clatter from the rest of the house?"

Karla continues to stare, "What are you talking about?" fairly hysterical now, "There is no dog and there is no noise but us talking."

"Okay….. I'm confused," I said looking at Gwen.

She never stopped staring, but slowly, oh so slowly, started to come around and as she did she looked almost as excited as this dog who is still enjoying the ear and back scratch.

"I had never even dared to hope that I would experience this in my lifetime, but I believe that you just became one of the most powerful psychics known to history. Would you go into one of the noisy rooms and tell me what you see?"

"Alright," I said getting up. Aww, I thought, He looks so sad, so I said, "C'mon boy you can come with me!" He turns instantly happy and jumps up running into the kitchen. I follow a tad slower and as I walk in I see all of these people. They don't even notice I've entered their festivities. They're all dressed in formal attire, evening gowns for the women and tuxes for the men. I'm now the one staring in wonder. There's hor's douvers of caviar and fruit; they all are carrying around full champagne glasses. It's amazing and from the looks on Gwen's and Karla's face, they saw none of it.

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Hopefully this was a bit longer and more satisfying. :)