Hey hey hey! How's it going? As you may have noticed, stories aren't coming out as soon as they used to, and I apologize, but my writing tempo is my writing tempo. And later I'll release the names of the songs that I listen to while typing. :P ! *takes a bow to the crowd as the lights dim until darkness, hold the screen, and walks off, stage left.*

"Lily what are you doing here and who the heck are you?!" They both looked at him with groggy, half asleep eyes. Lily looked to her right and saw the girl. With her regular blank face, she just laid her head back on his chest and closed her eyes. "Hey!"

The four of them sat at the dinner table, Kimby and Adam on one side with the girl and Lily on the other. "So your name is Saeko, you're a witch, and you snuck into here during the day because it was cold and you were being chased by mean people." Adam said. "Yeah… that pretty much explains it…" Saeko whispered.

The three of them sat there and stared at her. Adam in his regular black undershirt and jeans, Kimby in a matching, but lighter, shirt and jeans with her hair pulled up with a hairclip she had found. Lily was in Adam's black hoodie with the hood up and the sweat pants he gave her last night.

"I see nothing wrong with letting her stay." Adam said, breaking the silence, and diverting the attention from Saeko to himself. Saeko looked up from her lap where her hands were currently residing and had a surprised look on her face.

"Absolutely." Kimby agreed with a smile.

"I've never been able to look at someone in need of help and be able to look away." Adam told her.

"It's just in my blood. I was like this before the infection too; from what I can remember, I mean."

"And don't think that just because I say that, that I was always successful." Adam said with the beginning of a nostalgic grin. "Like remember the park I found you in Kimby?" Adam said, looking over to her. "Yeah; you found me under a tree in the rain." She said.

"Well now that I think about it… I've actually fallen out of that tree a few times when I was trying to get kites for little kids, frizzbees for owners and their dogs, even a few cats." Adam remembered.

"I've pretty much been in most of the trees in that forest of a park."

The three girls listened intently as Adam told them funny stories about random events that had happened inside the park.

"… and then Mrs. Wilson said 'Oh thank you young man! I don't know how I would have gotten Mr. Fluffy pants out of that tree if you wouldn't have come along!' and then I said 'It's not a problem, Mrs. Johnson. I'm just glad I could help out.' And then she said 'Oh I do wonder what happened to such fine gentleman like you. Thank you again and have a nice day, young man!' 'You too, Mrs. Johnson!'" Adam finished, snickering while doing so. "Wow Adam, I had no idea you were such a pushover when it came to helping old people." Kimby said. "Yep; old people, girls, and little kids are my weaknesses when it comes down to it, so don't tell anyone, okay?" Adam looked at the girls as he said this last part with a serious face. His face quickly crumpled into a grin, followed by Kimby and a small, half-hearted one from Saeko with Lily just staring at him.

Shit she could be creepy sometimes.

It was later that night after Adam had given the couch to Saeko and decided to sleep on the floor.

Adam had just gotten comfortable on the floor with his favorite blanket and pillow when it started to happen. He thought he heard a noise so he silently looked around without really moving. What he saw was definitely not normal. Shadows were moving by themselves, forming strange looking creatures.

'What the hell is going on?' Adam thought to himself. He silently stood up and turned in a circle, looking at all the walls. There were even more shadows now; they almost covered all of the walls. 'This can't be good, not good at all.'

The shadows stopped moving.

Adam could feel all of them staring at him. Adam whispered "Who are you?"

But he got no response because he didn't even have enough time to stifle a scream as they all lunged onto him, covering him in absolute shadow.

"NO."

Adam jerked up from the floor and looked around. It was nearly dusk from the looks of the slight brightness outside of the windows. He looked around, and saw nothing out of the ordinary. 'A Nightmare?' Adam thought to himself. He looked over at the couch and saw that Saeko was still sleeping. 'Well whatever it was, I don't like it. But I might as well go back to sleep. From the feeling I'm getting, I'm going to need it.' Adam laid back down and slowly drifted back off into sleep, this time, dreaming about the girls.

I'm so sorry the stories stopped for a while, such is the fault of school and writer's block.