Hearing that last sentence coming out of his own mouth cut himto the quick. It sounded so final, so much like he was referring to a nowdeceased friend...or family pet."That is Chris isn't it?" Yes." I thought so. You miss her, don't you?" More than you could imagine; more than I thought possible." Oh I can imagine alright. I can remember when William first did justwhat you're doing now." What?" Didn't you know? Of course you wouldn't," she said with a chuckle. "Iwas William once. That's why I. Cutie and I started to her relatives place and she started talking to me something while I was riding my bike. Though I was physically present and talking to her, mentally my mind was thinking about what just happened with Hottie and was still in shock.I dropped Cutie at her relatives place, bid her bye and started back to my home and on my way back I started calling Hottie but she did not answer. I might have called her 100 times till I reached home but she didn’t answer my call. I felt bad. "Oooo... I see strawberries, bananas, peaches, kiwi, grapes, cantelope... this is a fruit buffet!" I said."All fresh," He said."Where'd it come from?" I asked."Front porch. The guy at the market in town always drops off a crate of fresh fruit for us every saturday morning. My step-mom is a fruit nut after all. That's all she ever eats and she only drinks fresh juice." He replied."This is fresh too?" I asked holding up the juice... it looked different, kinda like orange juice but lighter and. Staring at me. Just then my lights turned back on and my phone rang. Was I seeing things? There really was no way anyone could enter our house I barely could get in with complicated door lock codes.i checked my cell phone to see who called. It was Michael. I texted him asking if everything was ok. He texted back ‘yes I am checking on you should be home in 30 minutes.’ I was ok with that but all I could think of was the man in the alley. The one outside my door. I crawled into bed and.