Her color had gone. I asked her that she could go to her home and I could drop her but I was amazed on her answer. She asked that it was too late and ...er house was far away so she could not go to her house. I asked her that then where would she stay the night if she would not went to house. She became quite. The telephone bell rang. I asked Kiran to get under the bed and she did so. I locked my room and gone to listen the phone. It was my uncle’s phone. He told me to call my father so I called. Mike put his hand on my back and guided me into the foyer. As I looked around, I called for Greg to come to me, which he did obediently. He took my hand in his, as he knew was the rule, and the three of us toured the stately old home. When the tour of the house was complete, the three of us walked out to the garage, and upstairs to the studio loft space. "Isn't it fabulous, babe?", I directed to Greg. He knew how much I wanted a study of my own to write in. He also knew of my exhibitionist. The house was too quiet and the air smelled wrong. A mental probe located all the girls except Phoebe and Amy. Rocky was still in orbit, awaiting his companion. He sent a thought.Pete ran upstairs, entered the annex and took the elevator to the second floor. The girls, smartly, were wearing body armor and were packing heat. Seven of them faced the door, ready for war.Yvette shouted, "Don't shoot! Pete, what the hell is going on out there?" Are we safe, Daddy?" Star and Spring, together. "We. We took our stuff out and let them throw it in the belly of the bus and got onboard. I chose a row a not quite in the middle, although the bus didn’t have a bathroom. I knew better than to sit over the wheels.I went past the seat and let her sit by the window. We sat and waited and finally the driver got onboard. Most everybody was on by then and he pulled out, into traffic.I was right. We were gonna stop at every goddam little town we came to. We barely got out of the city before we stopped.