You two are up early, especially given you didn’t sleep here last night, Mike.”“We wanted to spend some time together before my sister and her h...sband show up to have lunch with Elizaveta, Abby, and us.”“She’s bringing her ABBA albums?” Doctor Blahnik asked with a silly smile.“Yes. And thank you very much for announcing that to the world!”Both Doctor Blahnik and Clarissa laughed.“ABBA?” Clarissa asked, tittering.“A very annoying professor of music decided to yank my chain with an assignment. Step 2 was an investigation into your life. The PI we use in your area just finished a case and she was able to start looking into your case right away." That still doesn't answer my question, why me?" Why is from what the PI found. You are a loner, with few friends who would worry if you disappeared suddenly. Same as at work. If you don't show up at work in two days, they will just figure you found something better and didn't tell anybody. You also have no family to speak of. So you are just. Stupid!! ‘No, that came out wrong. To tell the truth, I needed the distraction. I’ve been over-working myself throughout the break, and I really needed the time out to be social and not intellectual for just a bit. That, and with the amount of coffee in my system right now, I’ll probably be awake until 4am.’ ‘Goodness, I’d give up sleep for coffee that good.’ We both laughed at that comment, and Casey left soon afterwards. It took me a while to get back to concentrating on my report after the. “Hey, handsome, want to talk?”John sounded chipper when he answered, “Hey, Babe. What’s up?”“I thought we could talk. You know, about stuff.”“You called me. It’s your dime.”There were probably a dozen safe subjects that I could have chosen to talk to John about. But I chose sex. “It was kind of weird but fun the other night when you had me fantasizing about Peter.”“It was fun for me too.”“I gathered that, but I was wondering, what is your favorite fantasy, Honey?”“If I were your average guy, I.