Zandra shivered as they walked out into the cold Colorado air.
"Zandra look at the snow!" Zac said excitedly running out in front of the group.
"Boy get your butt back here." Zandra said and Zac did with his head bowed. Zandra hugged the boy letting him know she wasn't mad at him. Duane Lee came up behind Zandra and picked her up.
"Duane Lee don't you even think about putting me anywhere near that snow!" Zandra screeched. Duane Lee laughed and put her down. She playfully smacked him and soon found herself in the snowand Justin laying on top of her. He laughed as he stood up and helped her to her feet.
"Oh Justin you are asking for it!" Zandra said whipping the snow off her. The others smiled. She and Justin got along very well. Ever since the Jamahl disaster every one on the hunt seemed closer to her except for Leland. Zandra still refused to talk to him. Leland took a hold of Jesse's hand as he watched Zandra flirt with his brother and cousin. He missed messing with her. He also noticed how much more time she was spending with Duane Lee. They swore they were only friends but Leland suspected they were way more than that. Every so often he caught Duane Lee looking at her the way he used to look at Tressa. He didn't know why but it bugged him. Zandra broke off from the group all of the sudden and ran into tde arms of a guy sitting on the good of a red camero. He picked her up and spun her around.
"Zandy! I can't believe your actually here!" the guy said spinning her around again. He then put her down and looked past her. "God am I having Da Javu."
Zandra turned to see every one lined up surrounding them. The guys all had their arms crossed and the girls had their hands on their hips. The same thing had happened when J had met her birth family. The camera crew walked round to get a better view of them all. They really did look intimidating.
"Yeah, I guess I have that damsel in distress vibe." Zandra said with a laugh. "Now I know you aleady know them since you had made me watch their show before. But every one this is my friend J. I've known him since I was what? Ten?"
J nodded. "A ten year old brat who pinned me to the ground and wrote Boys bit all over my face."
"Hey you asked for it." Zandra protested. "If you and your brothers hadn't drove by on your bikes spraying me and my friends with mud it would have never happened."
"Talking about my brother, he's a daddy." J said proudly.
"Awe proud uncle." Zandra said with a smile. "Which brother? What's the baby's name? And who's da momma?"
"Q is the daddy, Hope is the mamma and baby's name is Logan Zonder Giovone." J said and Zandra's jaw dropped.
"Q... As in my baby boy Q? And Hope as in my annoying brat of a cousin Hope!" Zandra said in awe. "How did they end up together?"
"When Q went home visit they hit it off and she moved here with him then Logan came along ten months later." J replied. "D went back home and got back in with Jimmy's crew. Apparently Jimmy is terrorizing the town again."
Zandra shook her head. Jimmy was a want to be gangster who tried to hey a gang started in Zandra's home town. Zandra's family did their best to stop it but when Zandra left the family couldn't control jimmy any longer. Zandra turned to the Chapman family.
"J lives only a few blocks from the hotel that the boys and I are stating in. I think, if its ok with J we'll fallow him and let you guys go ahead to the house."
"Its ok with me." J said with a smile.
"I told Cecily I'd go with her for a while. And I think Gary wanted to show Zac and Matty the four-wheelers." Adam said looking back at Duane Lee and Justin. They knew the boy was lying but they knew from the look Adam gave them that he had a good reason.
"Go ahead with J." Justin said with a smile. "DL and I will make sure we get the boys to the hotel. But we'll need to take your rental car."
"It will be the dodge." Zandra said with a smile. The others rolled their eyes. She never drove any thing but Dodge.
"Thank you guys I owe you one." Zandra said giving the guys a hug. "J lets get going! You need to catch me up."
"And you need to tell me how you meet the people you used to..." J said but Zandra smacked him. He started to laugh. "Ok ok don't hit me again."
He opened the door for her and she chimed in. The moment J drove away Adam turned to the Chapman family.
"Can we stay with you guys tonight?" He asked. "I have a feeling that after J tells her what Jimmy has been doing back home, she'll be racing back there to give him a talking to."
"No he wouldn't dare." jonas said sarcastically. "Oh wait, fourteen hours in a car with the girl he's had a crush on since he was sixteen he would never pass that up."
"She won't go." Matty demanded.
"She wouldn't leave us." Zac said agreeing with Matty. "And she knows J likes her. Why do you think he was the only one to answer her call."
"What!" every one exclaimed. Zac nodded.
"I over heard her talking to every ones voicemails. The only one that answered was J." Zac said sadly. That's why she was so easy to make made the last few days."
Leland looked down at the ground. He felt worse than he did before. If he had known that, he wouldn't have been so hard on her for not talking to her.
Jesse tightened her hold on Leland's hand. "Come on. Lets hey out of here. I'm cold."
XOXOXOXO
Zandra walked into J's house and was tackled by his younger brother and her cousin.
"Zandy!" Q said squeezing her. "We all thought J was joking when he said you were coming to Coloeado."
"Guess who she came with." J said with a smile. Zandra glared at him but she knew it was going to come out later.
"Dog!" J said and the others gasped.
"You came with Dog!" Hope said in awe. "As in Dog the bounty hunter?"
"Nope Dog the dog catcher." Zandra replied with out missing a beat.
"Oh." Hope said a little confused and Zandra laughed.
"Yes Dog the bounty hunter." Zandra replied giving her cousin a hug. She came from her mothers side of the family. Hope was actually Zandra's second cousin once removed but family was family despite the distance relation. "But don't think this is going to be your guys's way out of trouble. Its not going to work."
"How did you meet them?" Q asked.
"Well Quinton, I met them when they came to get Tommy." Zandra replied. "The Powers boys just came to live with me and after they caught him, Beth offered me a job. I've been working with them ever since."
"I net that's like a dream come true for you." Hope said with a smile.
"I'll admit I was like a kid at a candy store when I first met them, but now they are like family." Zandra replied. "Dog even calls me the adopted child. The others call me the Chapman stray. Even Tim calls me his little girl."
"What is Leland like?" Hope asked and Zandra sneered angrily.
"He's an ass." Zandra said angrily. "But he has his sweet moments... Ok he is nothing but sweet. I'm just not talking to him."
"The other two couldn't keep their hands off you." J said with a smirk. "Who are you sleeping with? Duane Lee or Justin?"
"Neither! Ewe." Zandra said. "Those two are like my brothers... Ok so I flirt with them a lot but you all know me. I flirt a lot."
J gave her a hug. "You know I'm just messing with you. But we do need to talk about your family. You need to go home. Things aren't good there."
