“Wren, what are you doing out here?”
“Playing a song of thanks to Wankan Tanka.”
“Thanks for what?”
She picks up the test she had laid down in front of her when she started playing and hands it to her mom.
“Mom, you're going to be a grandma!”
“A grandma? But why are you sitting on my balcony table naked?”
“I used to do that at grandma’s house too. I really don’t know why I just do.”
“Well you need to come inside before too many neighbors see you.”
“I really didn’t think when I came out here. I didn’t want to wake you guys but I just had to share my joy.”
“Come on in and I’ll make you some breakfast and show you what Clarisse wrote the day before yesterday.”
“You go ahead and start breakfast, I’ll slip something on.”
Wren quietly slips into her room where Norman still sleeps and goes to the dresser to grab her underwear. She slips into her underclothes and is pulling her jeans from last night on when she slips and falls into the bed.
“Wren, you all right?”
“Yea, just slipped that’s all.”
“What time is it?”
“Just after six.”
He slips out of bed and heads to the bathroom. Wren finishes dressing and heads out with her mom.
“Wren, take a look at her last two entries.”
Wednesday July seventh two thousand and five. They found Po’s body today. Apparently the Predator is an apparition as it entered his house unseen and left through dead bolted doors. That makes everyone but me. When will my turn come? Will I escape this curse simply because I’m Clarisse, or will it follow me to my doom? I guess only time will tell. I just wish there wasn’t so much uncertainty so I could live in peace and continue with my new life.
I received another offer from the California public school system today. With the deaths of the others I am really looking into their offer. With the chance that whoever it is going after the gang maybe being Clarisse in another state will save me. However it goes, my decision will have to be done on the spur of the moment.
Thursday July eighth two thousand and five. I accepted the offer in California! I found a place that will buy this house outright for cash so that leaves me with no strings attached here. If I act quickly I may escape this curse I have gotten myself into. I will tell my support group good-bye tomorrow when I see them. Telling them good-bye won’t be a big deal as they have become a bother with always changing the meeting time and place. This week's meeting has been moved all the way back to eight tomorrow night! How is a girl supposed to go out on a Friday night if she’s stuck in a support meeting!
“So she will be moving soon and going out tonight.”
“I thought that would interest you.”
“It certainly does, the only question is how do I press this to my advantage? It will be dark by nine especially with the new moon. From what I saw of her house it wouldn’t be too hard to enter.”
“But what about booby traps and what about her computer?”
“Her computer?”
“Yes, her journal is stored in the hard drive and you are mentioned in it several times. It would not take the computer forensics guys long to put two and two together and link you and the Predator as one in the same.”
“Great, so I need to get him and a computer tower.”
“Just the hard drive would do.”
“Mom I have no clue what is inside a computer let alone how to get it out if I knew what to look for!”
“Just leave that to me.”
“I had a feeling you were going to say that and I have a feeling I won’t be alone tonight.”
“You will not.”
Wren spins around at the sound of the new voice behind her unaware of his presence until he had spoken.
“Norman, what do you mean by that?”
“You see Margaret and I have made a pact to not let you out of our sight again. You tore us apart the other day with your disappearance, we didn’t know if you were alive or dead. And we decided if you turned up alive we were going to escort you on your next mission so we at least know your physical status. And besides I want you safe especially since there is more than you involved now.”
Norman holds up Wren's pregnancy test, a large smile spreading across his face as he does.
“I assume that this is yours and not your mom’s”
“But I don’t want you two involved. I don’t want my sins to carry over to you.”
“Wren, we have both delivered the Predator to several jobs between us already so, we are guilty already. If you are to wind up in Hell for this then you already have company.”
“He is right dear, besides look how many times I was my dad’s driver on top of all this. Want it or not, we are now in this together.”
“Great I guess there is no escaping you two then. But how do you intend to move about unnoticed with me? I think three people lurking in the dark would be a bit obvious don’t you?”
“Well for your information I picked up as Norman calls it a superhero suit identical to yours last night. That is why I was late getting home, not that you two noticed.”
“And I’ll be the get away driver. It’s not exactly where I would choose to be but it is the best I can do. Besides someone has to do the delivery and pick-up.”
“Alright then if you two have this so figured out what’s the plan?”
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