I shout “Stacey?” and hear no reply, “Stacey, are you here?” I shout out, again no reply. After a quick look around the house I notice my iPod... missing of the docking station I know I left it on and figure she went for a run. I know she likes to keep fit but didn’t realise she was this committed. With last night still running vividly through my mind I decide it’s time for a cold shower to freshen up. I walk to the bathroom and hop straight in the shower. After giving my hair a wash I finish up. “I have felt that there is more. I, I know there is more, but I do not know how I am to use this gift. Or if I am to use it. I do wish I could have talked to her about it.”“I know, little one,” he said, addressing her by the familiar expression they had used around the family fire. “I wish it had been otherwise as well, but we could not risk frightening you and the others with this, especially with the group so unstable. Dag knew that he had but a little while to live, and the stability of the. Around midnight I used the shower out by the pool, slept on the sofa in my office then I was up early to get dressed and had even made her breakfast by the time she came down from her bedroom in the morning.Jersey strode into the kitchen, like a Milan model, an almost nothing black, silk wrap draped over her shoulders and ending just low enough to be modest. Again she was wearing a pair of platform soled heels (did she have one whole case of shoes?) that raised her a good six inches.She gave me. She was nervous the whole day, but now the students were gone, and the school was silent. She was grading student quizzes when he appeared in the doorway of her classroom. "Follow me," he ordered. His office was huge, with a massive desk and a large white leather chair. Gabriella suddenly felt vulnerable as the huge black man closed and locked the door. "Why..." she said, "did you lock the door?" "I do not wish for us to be disturbed," he replied curtly. "But the school is empty except for us!".