“What do you want me to do. Boss?” Guido asked eagerly.
I favored him with my evilest grin.
“Remember that special assignment I said I had for you?”
“Yea, Boss?”
“I’ll warn you, it’s dangerous.”
That appealed to his professional pride, and he puffed out his chest. “The tougher the better. You know me!”
“Fine,” I said. “All you have to do is go upstairs and explain Bunny to Aahz. It seems my partner isn’t talking to me just now.”
Chapter Five:
“Such stuff dreams are made of.”
-S. BEAUTY
LUANNA was with me. I couldn’t remember when she arrived or how long she had been here, but I didn’t care.
I hadn’t seen her since we got back from the jailbreak on Limbo, and I had missed her terribly. She had left me to stay with her partner. Matt, and a little piece of me went with her. I won’t be so cornball as to say it was my heart, but it was in that general vicinity. There was so much I wanted to tell her … wanted to ask her, but it didn’t really seem necessary. We just lay side by side on a grassy hill watching the clouds, enjoying each other’s company in silence. I could have stayed like that forever, but she raised herself on one elbow and spoke softly to me.
“If you’ll just skootch over a little, Skeevie, we can both get comfy.”
This was somehow jarring to my serenity. She didn’t sound like Luanna at all. Luanna’s voice was musical and exciting. She sounded like …
“BUNNY!”
I was suddenly sitting bolt upright, not on a grassy knoll, but in my own bed.
“Ssshh! You’ll wake up the kid!”
She was perched on the edge of my bed wearing something filmy that was even more revealing than the skintight outfit she had had on last night.