"Oh believe me, he'll call."

An hour later, the girls were just laying around when Lisa's phone went off. She looked at the display and it was a number she didn't recognize.

"Hello?"

"Lisa?"

"Speaking."

"Hey this is Scott."

"Oh hey. I'm sorry about sounding so short. I didn't recognize the number. Thought it was possibly a client for work."

"Perfectly understandable. Well I've narrowed it down to two."

"OK."

"We either have Ghost Rider or Hannibal Rising."

"As much of a Nicholas Cage fan as I am, I will have to say Hannibal Rising. It's without Anthony Hopkins but I still want to see it."

"I will pick you up around 9:30 because the movie starts at 10:00. Does that sound okay?"

"As long as you're okay for work tomorrow."

"I should be fine. What hotel are you staying at?"

"The Doubletree."

"Oh me too. We can just meet in the lobby then"

"OK. 9:30?"

"9:30. I'll see you then."

"Okay."

Lisa closed the phone and saw her two sisters looking at her with smirks on their faces.

"Lisa's got a date."

"Shut up."

"What are you going to wear?"

"Like I have the slightest clue."

Both Nicole and Ericka looked at each other.

"Dress up!"

"Oh God. I'm the youngest of us three? Sometimes I'm not so sure."

At 9:30 sharp, Lisa walked into the lobby and there stood Scott.

"Hi. You certainly look nice."

"Blame the sisters. They seemed to think I was their personal Barbie. You look different in something besides a red polo shirt and black pants. A good kind of different though."

"Why thank you. Shall we?"

After getting to the theater and getting their seats Scott started conversation again.

"OK, so what don't I understand?"

"Ah, how long has that been bothering you?"

"Since you walked away earlier."

"I usually don't date, by personal choice, so when I agreed to this I kinda shocked myself."

"Well I consider it an honor. Who are you most looking forward to seeing tomorrow?"

"That is actually a shorter list now. I can tell you who's left. That would be Joe, Petey, the Naturals, and Gail Kim."

"How many did we knock off at dinner earlier?"

"Two."

"No names?"

"Homicide…"

"and….?"

"Scott!"

That came out more of a whine than anything else. He could tell he was embarrassing her.

"I don't mean to embarrass you."

"I wanted to see you."

With that she looked down at the floor, afraid to meet his eyes again. He was now beginning to get the idea of why she was at such unease with him. It wasn't really unease at all. She was just extremely shy.

"Tell me more about your nephew."

"I'm not so sure that's going to work this time."

"Lisa, I like you. Obviously by your reaction just now, you like me too. The last thing I want to do is make you feel uncomfortable with me. I want to spend time with you, get to know you. However that's only if you want to."

Lisa brought her head up and looked at him.

"Okay."

"Okay. Let's watch the movie."

After the movie was over they were walking out talking about it when Scott suddenly grabbed her hand.

"Walk with me."

Scott began directing them, to where Lisa didn't know.

"Tell me about you."

"What do you want to know?"

"So you only have 2 sisters?"

"Oh yes. Just those two. I don't think I could handle anymore as they are a handful."

"Please tell me if I'm out of line asking this. They don't look much older than you, but your nephew's 10."

"Xavier, or Playboy as Nicole and I call him is Ericka's son. She had him when she was 11. Long story, will not go into it."

"You don't have to tell me anything you're uncomfortable with Lisa."

"No I made sure before I mentioned to you who was on the phone with me how much about Playboy I mention. She said she was fine with me telling you about him and how old she was when she had him as he is a part of her life she wouldn't deny."

"What did your parents say about it?"

"Well, Ericka had him before we met our mom. However, once we began living with her, She showed Ericka how to care for him like she was supposed to. All three of us thank God every day Mags found us."

"Your mother allows you to call her a nickname? I'd be shot for that."

Lisa took a deep breath debating on whether to answer him.

"When she wasn't our real mother, she couldn't force us to call her that."

"You're adopted then."

"Mags adopted all four of us at the same time. They tried to keep us together since we had come in together."

"Oh wow, that was a responsibility to take on."

"Mags was a hell of a woman."

"How old were you when you were adopted?"

"I was 11, Nicole was 12, and Ericka was 13 while Playboy was 2."

"How long has she been gone?"

"How did you…"

"You referred to her in past tense. She was a hell of a woman."

"She died from cancer when I was 13. After that, we peaced out and left the system on our own. By then we knew what we needed to in order to survive."

"And you've stayed together since."

"We've never been apart since I was 9 years old. When we found each other, we found the family we'd always needed. Why do I feel so safe telling you this Scott?"

"That's a question only you can answer. However, I'll listen to however much you want to tell me."

"Can we go somewhere else? Maybe somewhere where I don't feel like theres 200 ears listening to every word I say?"

"Not a problem."

"One more thing and we can go."

"What is it?"

"Humor me for a second and hug me."

Without question, Scott took her in his arms and held her.

"Oh yea, definitely feel safe with you."

"Is that good or bad?"

"I dunno yet. It's never happened except with my sisters."