This is Janets Plumworld I'm just visiting! This is my first go at writing anything never mind fan fic. Just trying to get to grips with the uploading story bit just now. This is just a wee short chapter for now for a bit of fun!

Chapter 4

I awoke to the sound of car doors slamming and engines starting up. I forced myself to get out of bed and over to the window. Two black SUVs were leaving the driveway from the building. The day had already started at Rangeman by the looks of it. I raked about for my watch and found it on my wrist. Okay so I had been tired last night. It was 8am. So I had around 4 hours sleep. Usually this little amount of sleep would see me jumping under the covers again and back to the land of nod. But I knew Ella would have been told of my arrival and could be at my door at any minute.

I took myself through to the bathroom for a shower to wake myself up. Ten minutes later I was dried and dressed in jeans, t shirt and boots. I went to the mirror to make myself look respectable. I stood for a few seconds looking at my reflection. It was April and I am Scottish so I am pale at this time of year anyway but this morning I was looking paler than usual and my eyes looked drawn. I would put this down to the flight but had to face that I hadn't been looking my best of late. I raked out my make up bag and slapped on some foundation and new mascara that promised extreme length lashes. I had big blue eyes and had always been told my eyes were my best feature so for years I had been trying all the new mascaras to make the best them. So far I hadn't found one that lived up to its promise, but it was a definate improvement. Some clear lip gloss finished the look.

Next I got to work on my hair, but that didn't really take up much time. Recently I had decided to have my long straight hair cropped short and I was loving that fact that all I had to do in the morning was work a bit of styling product through my head and go! This morning was no different. I had auburn hair which had a lot of natural red in it. I wasn't a red head but this morning it was looking particularly redder than usual. It could be the fact the sun was streaming through the window and reflecting the colour. Back home I had left the country in the third day of a downpour which was causing widespread flooding so my hair or anywhere else hadn't seen much sun of late. It felt positively balmy this morning in Trenton compared to April in Edinburgh.

Deciding that I now looked ready to face the world I wandered through to the kitchen to await Ella's arrival. There was a complicated coffee machine which I decided I needed to master as I really needed a caffeine hit. I had just worked out how to get the bloody thing on and located the coffee when I remembered there hadn't been any milk in the fridge last night. So I grabbed a bottle of water and a banana and sat at the small dining table. Another ten minutes passed and still no Ella.

I knew for a fact that Ella was an early riser and was sure that she must have been told I was here by now. I thought she would have rushed to see me as she would have assumed there was something wrong as I was actually here on her doorstep. We kept in touch by email with the occassional phone call so she surely must have wondered why I had suddenly jumped on a plane to see her.

I sat for a few minutes more then wandered over to the door. I was a bit nervous about going out there as I knew I would most likely bump into another huge man in black and although the ones I had met last night were friendly enough once they knew who I was, I couldn't be sure that anyone else I met would be quite so accommodating. And I was sure there was probably quite a few more big scary men lurking in this building somewhere!

I slowly cracked the door open and looked up and down the hall. No one was around and the place was in silence. I then remember that Lester Santos had said he was next door. I had no idea where Tank would be but out of the two men Lester had seemed the less daunting. I slowly tiptoed along to his door and stood outside wondering whether I had the guts to knock on his door. Before I could think about it a hand popped out of nowhere and hammered on the door. Okay so my brain was obviously thinking for itself this morning.

I stood back and waited with my breath held. I couldn't hear anything so I decided he must have left for work already so I turned to run back to my apartment where I would get my heart rate back to normal and think of what to do next.

I was just about to turn when I heard the lock tumble in the door and it was pulled open with some force.

"What the fuck time you call this" Lester shouted at me. I took a step back and was going to run but I couldn't take my eyes off the sight in front of me. Lester was standing there in a pair of orange boxer shorts and not much else. In fact nothing else but the angry look of a man who had just been woken up! He was all toned coffee coloured flesh and muscle and I was having a hard time dragging my eyes away from his six pack. So shoot me I'm a perv for a bit of muscle.

"I er, em I'm sorry I" look at his face Carla get your eyes of the body "I em, was wondering if, oh shit you were on a nightshift last night" I finally blurted out once I got my mouth to sync with my brain. "I'm so sorry I didn't mean to wake you" I was sure I wasn't looking so pale now as I felt myself blush from head to foot.

Lester looked at me for a second then a big smile spread across his face. "Well this sure beats being woken up by Tank. What can I do for you?" he asked.

"Well I was wondering if, if you" my voice trailed away as my defiant eyes were back on the six pack and were threatening to wander south to his shorts. So they didn't dress completely in black then. "Do you want to throw some clothes on I can wait" I asked while taking my eyes down to the floor for their disobediance.

"I can handle it if you can" Lester replied. I looked up and saw a hint of playfulness on his tired eyes.

Okay you can do this just focus on the face.

"I was looking for Ella, but I don't know where to start. I thought she would have come and found me by now" I blurted out trying not to blink and give my eyes another chance to wander.

"Why don't you come in I'll make a quick call" Lester answered.

"Ehm, I'll just wait back in my apartment if thats ok, I think I need a coffee or something" like a cold shower and a strong drink.

"No problem I'll be through in a few. I'll maybe throw a few clothes on so you can look me in the eye" he winked.

"Thanks" I ran back to my apartment to the sound of Lester chuckling and dived into the kitchen to stand before the open fridge to cool down.