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Imma back! New chapter and all obviously… sorry for the wait… near the end of term and I have had a lot to do!

Hm… Ill add another disclaimer for the rest of the series because I don't want to do it again!

Disclaimer: All hail Janet Evanovich, proud owner of all things Plum… besides my characters!

Just a shout out to Cy, Whyte-Fyre-Flayme, one of my friends spending the entire holidays with me!

Without further ado: Chapter Three:

We dropped Remy, as she repeatedly told us to call her, off at the cop house with the promise of being bonded out again in the next two hours. Then I called Dani, well the number that was on the card she gave me, and told her that we had Remy. Alls going well so far…

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At the end of the day we had handed in three FTA's not including Remy. One had been scared kite-less by Ton and had come quivering, another was decidedly drunk and was passed out on his couch, and the next one reminded me of Mooner.

It was a pretty good day. I mean, I didn't roll in any garbage, have bullets fly at me, or have rabid dogs chase me. I count that as a lucky day. Though if it were just me then I probably would have some form of cabbage all over me. Ton was just a intimidating, muscly bounty hunter who is cousins with Ranger. Nothing big. And Im going to pretend I just didn't scoff at myself.

I smiled slightly and waved as Ton drove out of the office parking lot after dropping me off. He hadn't said much today, only sending a few stares towards me when I tried talking to him, but they were more of a 'Im not answering that.' Rather then a 'Your rambling again.' Stare. It's a step.

I asked Dani to take me home, where she proceeded to bombard me with questions about my day with Ton, the FTA's and if I figured out where McDonalds was. The answer to all was 'Yes'. Even the ones that required full length answers. Im tired, so sue me. Or don't.

I reached home and lazily turned the handle to the front door. I had Ton leave it open for me, I'd have the lock smiths here tomorrow to get the key cut again. Big sigh.

I walked up the thin spiral stair case to the kitchen, where Rex was having his hourly run on his wheel. I wish I had that much energy. I looked in my fridge and grabbed the grapes, fed a few to Rex and proceeded back down stairs to the lounge where I unceremoniously flopped down and switched on the TV. Settling down into a long night of night time shows.

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I awoke the next morning and the day had started without me, as usual. I yawned, changed my clothes, had coffee and stared off into the roofs of other people houses from my kitchens window. I was amazed that such a place like this, cool and beautiful, could remain so small. Surely you would think more people would move here. Oh well, their loss, my gain.

I drained the coffee and washed the cup with water, placing it on the dish drainer for now. I'd do the washing later. Now I needed a new car, call the locksmith, get a new cage for Rex as this one was broken (stupid baggage handlers), and get some more groceries. All with limited money. Another sigh.

I slid my stun gun in my large cargo pants pocket, tied up my Nikes and was walking towards the office. You got to love smaller towns sometimes… this is one of those times. It took me about forty five minutes to get there, but upside is I probably have to walk around all day. Ill borrow Dani's car… if she has one. Ill probably only have to walk home again, because there is no way Im getting a new car today.

I was sweating a little, and was definitely puffing by the time I made it to the office, which was quiet besides the purring of the air conditioner. I breathed in the nice cool air and walked to the closest couch to the office desk then I proceeded to collapse on it. Im not totally fit yet.

Neither Dani, nor Jackie were in the office. It was very quiet, save the puffing of my breath. I stayed sitting there, cooling down for another ten minutes. Then I got impatient and took the elevator upstairs. I've had enough exercise for one day.

Again, it was quiet up here, but there was a tapping noise coming from what looked like a small office room. As I got closer to the door I recognised the sound, it was the tapping of a keyboard; I should know what one sounds like from working the office at Rangeman. That was pretty boring.

I looked in the window on the right side of the door, the one that they sometimes have above the windows. It proved that Dani was inside, typing her little heart out… or at least I guess.

I knocked softly on the door and didn't get a response so I knocked harder… and harder… and harder still. Yet she seems to have temporary deafness… it might be caused by the earphones that were in her ears. I groaned and tried to unlock the door, unsuccessfully. I kept pounding on the door until I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"She won't hear you, sweet, she's listening to rock screamo. She'll be at it for a while. Meanwhile, is there anything I can do for you?" I let Dom's voice wash over me, taking my frustration so I would yell at him.

"Hi Dom. I was just going to ask if I could borrow Dani's car, do you know where her car keys are? I'll leave her a note." I plastered on a big smile. Hey, if little kids can get away with being innocent because of a grin, so can I.

He smiled and considered me, I think. "I can do one better." He reached into his pocket and I got a little antsy, maybe I didn't want to know what the 'better' is quite yet. He probably saw my expression, or it was just the ESP, but he grinned bigger and pulled out some keys. With a Porsche sign as a key ring, oh boy. "Its parked around the back. Try not to get it blown up."

He took my hand and placed the keys in it, lingering a little bit longer then polite, or maybe that was just my imagination. I nodded my head slowly at him, indicating I would take care of it, or at least die trying.

"Though you may want to re-check you have car insurance." He smiled again, this one had the 'Im going to play along' type of theme to it.

"Don't worry, in our line of business you have to have it." He gave my hand a kiss, like the time before, his eyes slightly twinkling in the florescent lights as he looked up at me. I prayed to God, not to let me blush, but I did, guess it was because I havent gone to Church since I've been here. I should probably think of joining one though.

He gave me one last withering look and walked back towards his office, not glancing back. While I was in shock. A Porsche! He gave me keys to a – wait not 'a' his, Porsche, and he trusts me not to blow it up! I hope I don't.

I grinned and restrained myself from doing a happy dance. For all I know, they have security cameras and Dom is looking at them right now, but somehow I doubt that they base of it would be in his office. So I did a happy dance anyway.

I calmly walked down the stairs, feeling more energetic now, and figured my way out the back door. And there, in all its red glory, was a Porsche, a red Porsche. I had to stop myself from drooling at it, and unlocked the automatic doors by the remote, sliding myself into the oh-so-comfortable black leather seats, much like the ones that got chlorine stained in Ton's car. I turned the car over and it purred, the only kind of purr that could come from a V8 engine. I reversed out of the car park (now I know where Dani parks her car!), and I was off down one of the back streets, hoping to find a cell phone shop.

The most logical answer I could find for a phone shop was in the main shopping centre, which happened to be Hervey Bay Centro, newly built with K-Mart and Big W, as promised a month ago. I knew of three mobile phone shops around it. A Telstra shop inside as well as a '3' shop, and another Telstra shop across the road, owned by a friend of mine. Guess where I went first.

Although the shop was across the street, I parked in the Centro parking lot instead, because I would be coming here for some shopping. I scooted out of the heavenly seat and promised myself I would be back in the car within two hours tops.

I quickly ran across the street and inside the Telstra shop to avoid the heat outside, the kind of heat that promises rain, and a lot of humidity. Maybe I should get my hair straightened by the hair dresser? I have wanted to change my hair. Though I don't think I'd have the guts to get it done, and Im not willing to try.

Inside the shop it was cold, air conditioning type cold, but still, given the temperature, you knew this was a family run business, it just had that 'air' to it. There was a girl, maybe a year or two younger then me behind the cash register, humming along with the song that was playing through store speakers. There were a couple of customers scattered around the small rectangular space.

As soon as the girl saw me she scampered over, her shoulder length blond hair bouncing or swaying, Im not sure which. She enveloped me in a hug, and I made the mistake of breathing in. Tyoku always liked her perfumes.

"Steph – I mean Lee, its been a long time." Tyoku, or Ty and I went to college together, in the same business class as me too. At that time we were close, but when her grandma got sick she moved here to help her. We kind of lost touch, but thankfully she still had the same email address and I was able to contact her about two months ago. She was the one that helped me with the boat/plane tickets, I gave her the money and she payed for the tickets, that way they wouldn't have been traced. Though I guess I should have done something about my last name? I did get new credit cards under the name Selene Price, but Im not sure how that will float with everyone else, I will probably end up explaining my circumstances to Dom, maybe Dani and Jackie, but definitely Dom, because I know he would help me. I just hope for now that Ton doesn't slip to Ranger that there's a new girl with the last name Plum!

I released Ty and gave her another once over. Same grey blue eyes, same curvy figure, same bottle brush hair, same pale skin with freckles splashed here and there. Nope, she hasn't changed too much. And if your wondering where she got her name, she's one fifth Asian on her fathers side.

I was grinning by that time and said, "My, my, havent changed a bit, Ty." Yes, I rhymed, shh.

"Tee hee, neither have you, Lee." Ty said in her bubbly and overly hyper voice. She started jumping around a little on the spot, signalling that she wanted to dance, so I grabbed her arm to stop her. I don't want any attention.

"Yeah, Ty, Im just here for a new phone. Nothing to expensive, but it has to at least work! A camera, but not a flip phone or a slide phone, they kind of annoy me." Ty giggled for a moment, though I don't know why, and she led me towards the counter, where to the left there were some older style Nokia's, which I could definitely deal with.

"We have the Nokia 2200, for one hundred, or the Nokia 2210 for the same. I think they would be the ones that suit you the most. Don't you?" She didn't wait for my approval, instead she shoved the two types of phones in my hand. I didn't care particularly which one, so I shoved the 2200 in her hand. She squealed quietly and nearly ran into a man in her haste to the register.

"Okay, talk to you later! Make sure you charge it fully!" Ty yelled as I retreated back to Centro. Now I remember why I never had any energy in college, I used all of it trying to keep up with Ty.

I had the Telstra bag in my hand, and my purse in the bag. I tightly held onto the keys, for fear that I would lose them, which isnt as bad as the car blowing up, but it runs a close fifth.

I didn't bother putting the phone in the car, but I went into the main mall… type thing. It wasn't big enough to be called a mall, wasn't small enough to be called 'shops', it was kind of in the middle, probably why everyone just calls it 'Centro'. I mentally went through my checklist of things to get.

-Food for Rex

-Groceries for me

-Get hair trimmed (just trimmed, no styling)

-New clothes

And last but not least

-Have lunch.

I think I can get that done in an hour and a half.