Everything was blurry and a dull gray color. Am I still in a dream? I was on the floor, wrapped in a fuzzy blanket Jessie had given me last night, she...was on the futon. I sat up and started coughing. That dull gray color was smoke, I realized. I jumped out of the blanket and shook her awake. ‘What is it?’ She asked, and her eyes widened as she saw my panicked expression. ‘The house is on fire. We have to get out.’ I told her quickly, trying to seem calm so she wouldn’t panic too badly, but. She thinks Bonnie is comfortable enough with people that she might have been around them for a while. We're trying to contact someone in the Congolese government to find out if she might have been taken or shipped from a research facility there. If she was, then it's likely they know about her special abilities." If that's true," Sarah added, "then she's a lot more valuable than we thought. She'd be priceless for research. Maybe I've read too many crime stories but whoever is trying to get her. She whispered to him “Not here, babe.” “What’s wrong?” Noah asked, disappointed. She gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek in an attempt to offset his disappointment. “It isn’t you,” she said. Alexis told Noah now just wasn’t the place and it did not feel right to escalate. With a sigh, Noah told her okay and continued to rest on the beach. He tried not to take it too personal. Like she said, it wasn’t him. He knew she loved him, and there is no other guy she would rather be with than him.“It’s. So I decided I needed to hit the shopsand see if I could find something that was sexy and said to Daltonthat I put in the effort, too. If he was going to meet me for thefirst time, I wanted to make lasting impression. I wanted to look andfeel sexy, yet classy, but I also wanted something that screamed "takeme and don't let go!"I had the day off so I decided I'd drive to the next town and do alittle shopping for a new dress. Monday's at the mall, during themiddle of the day, have always been.