Nomi's eyes open form a deep sleep

"It was, just a dream."

Nomi sits up on the couch only to have a sudden pain strike through in his right leg up to his shoulder

"OWW what was that!?" Nomi lifted up the blanket , to reveal bandages on his stomach."um RANDY!" Then there was the silence.

"oh you're awake!"

"who was that?" Nomi confused that doesn't sound like Randy.

Sketchy walks out of the hallway holding a tray

"Sketchy !? "

"Nomi I'm so glad you're okay!" she sat on the couch and gave him a hug almost tearing up

"Sketchy, what happened?"

"You're are pined 20 feet high onto a building by bucky , I saw you when I was walking home so I grabbed ninja's sword and threw off his balance by slicing off his leg temporarily."

"So you know that I'm the ninja's si-."

"um yeah."

"oh ,you saved me?"

"More like put you in more danger , if it wasn't for my scream you would have saw his hand coming and probably dodged it."

" Don't blame yourself for everything, if you weren't there he probably would have done a lot worse."

Sketchy hands Nomi a tray with a grilled cheese sandwich and hot cocoa on it.

"Eat something if you ever want to ninja again."

"hot cocoa?"

"yeah, Randy told me it was your favorite ."

"oh ,where is Randy?"

"In the shower." she said as Nomi drank his hot cocoa.

About 9 minutes later Randy emerges out of the hallway with somewhat wet hair and no jacket

"Nomi You're OK !" Randy said joyfully.

Randy sits down on the couch besides Nomi. Leans over and whispers something

"(Nomi we need to talk later some personal cheese went down between Sketchy and the ninja.)"

Nomi nods his head in agreement and then says "Sketchy how in the world did you make this grilled cheese sandwich so good." he said Returning to the conversation.

About 20 minutes later Miss. Cunningham enters the house. not seeing Nomi's bandages that were covered by his blanket

"Randy ,Nomi I never said you guys can have friends over a girl one at that , oh well here let me drive you home dear."

Sketchy's muscles tighten "um ,no thanks I'd really prefer walking 15 miles."she said

"I can't let you walk home it's too dark outside, why would you prefer walking?" Ruby asked.

Sketchy sitting on the ground look down and mumbled something.

"what?"

" I'm afraid to be in a vehicle."

"oh well still can't let you walk home, why don't you call up your mom and see if you can spend the night, it'd be nice to have another girl around the house for once."

"OK" sketchy walks over to the phone dialed a few numbers ,and waits

"hi um mom...yeah well see wants to spend the night over here because my phobia and it's too dark out to walk...yeah uh yes OK........bye." She hangs up. "she said it was fine."

"OK I'll go get you the air mattress so you can sleep out here in the living room."

"OK sounds good."

"So your mom said it was okay, even on a school night?" Randy asked

"yeah."

"OK." he said

"What are you kids waiting for go to bed Randy Nomi go to your room." Ruby said.

"um Ruby" Nomi said lifting up the blanket showing her the bandages.

"how?" she questions

"ninja stuff."

"does she know about you being the ninja's sidekick?" she whispers.

Nomi nods his head in reply.

"OK, Nomi, you stay my couch, sketchy your air mattress. No closer!"

Everyone nods their head in an agreement.

"Now go"

Randy sneaks out of his bedroom 1 o'clock in the morning, tiptoeing down the stairs and sliding into the living room. he sees Nomi is still awake, he was staring at sketchy. Randy sat down beside Nomi

"hey Nomi." he whispered.

"Randy tell me everything that happened ,I'm so lost."Nomi whispers.

"Ok when sketchy ran over to you in the fight, and when I tried to help she threatened me to stay away with the sword ,she was crying and she said, you already took in my parents... And she was just yelled stuff that did make sense!"

"But Sketch's parents can't be gone she was just off the phone with her mom."

"What if that wasn't her mom what if she never dialed at all what if she was just pretending?"

Randy got up went over to the phone and press The last call button.

"The last person called on this phone was Howard . Sketchy never called her mom so does that mean-?"

"I have no idea."

( awkward silence)

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"