Conveniently enough, the same day Kate flew out, Riley's lease ended and she needed a place to stay. Apparently Kate had told her she could stay with ...e until Kate got back. I found this out when I came home from work and saw that my bathroom had been taken over, and the bedsheets, on the only bed in the house, had been changed from the usual plain comforter, to a pink frilly mess that hurt my eyes and damaged my soul. Immediately after seeing my home invaded, I called Kate, who was of course. They'd moved in as fast as possible (which wasn't terribly fast at all, most of them were still quite clumsy in the Martian gravity) and found nothing. Not a goddamn thing. Apparently none of the other platoons that had rushed in to silence the other mortar teams had found anything either."There is one thing," said Ayers now, "there hasn't been any more mortar fire since we sent the platoons in after them."This should have comforted Callahan, made him feel he had accomplished something. It. My name is Holly and I was on my way to my boyfriend's house. I had noticed that my fuel was on the low side. I was driving on the highway and was hoping I would not run out of gas. There was a sign up ahead that said there was a gas station in the next ten miles. I was hoping I would be able to make it. I always drove with a full tank, but I guess I wasn't paying attention.I was meeting my boyfriend's parents for the first time and was a little pre-occupied on how that would be going down. My. We were finished by around two that afternoon. Mom and I got cleaned up and went grocery shopping. While we were shopping mom said, “I’ve been thinking. You guys have been doing well in school and your father and I are really impressed with how responsible you both have been lately. Would you kids like it if we hired a housekeeper and someone to do the yard work?”My first response was to get all excited and scream hell yes! But I caught myself in time and replied, “Not a live-in housekeeper..