“Wow!” I gasped.“Never been here before?” she asked.“No. I obviously knew where the building was, but she’d never invited me up.”“She ...nvited me over a few times, and I was here earlier today.”“Oh?”“She didn’t want Howard to know, so I came this morning and changed the sheets. And put the champagne on ice.”“Champagne?”“A gift from Jeri! Along with fresh strawberries. There’s a note for you on the dining table.”I walked across the great room to a large dining table with ten chairs, and picked up. CQ duty again what a boring job. well Friday rolled around and as luck would have it I was off thanks to having duty Thursday.After getting some needed sleep I went down to the PX ( post exchange) and got a couple mid ranged priced bottles of bubbly for the weekend. When I arrived at Kat's place she was home alone and rather bored. She met me at the door in a bath robe and a smile she was in the process of getting ready for tonight. I asked if she knew what Amy was wearing but she wasn't sure. "thanks" "no prob" i replyed. we were almost to the back door when she started to slip on a patch of ice and went to reach out for somethi g and caught ahold of my hand, i held on and lifted her back up before she could realy hit the ground." thanks im so sorry look i got ur pants wet with the slush, it makes no sence, slush here ice there! i HATE winter!" i quickly let go of her hand. i get embarassed really easily and am very shy. finally we were in school, "later" was the last we spoke until. “Why so in a haste? We have plenty of time come on babe…” Gabriella grumbled sluggishly. “He’s not dead..they didn’t find his body and he’ll be after us…He’ll know we alerted the police and you know we’re not safe staying here honey trust me.” James persuadedThe streets were calm and dark and there were no vehicles on the vicinity. Gabriella flung her things at the back of the truck and stumped in. James took the steering and gave one last look at Gabriella. They had succeeded and this was.