The cool car cutting through the hot wind makes the experience much more fun. Alysa was driving at around seventy miles per hour along the hwy. Kaemon was sitting in the passenger smoking a weed joint since he's not driving. Alysa turned on a gravel road out past the main road following Garren in his car to a location that has an amazing view from a high vantage point. A stillness takes over the desert landscape once the cars parked. A both of Alysa's feet landed on the dusty dirt creating a powder cloud onto her face. She uses her towel to wipe the partical dirt off her face and carefully steps trying to not disturb the dirt. Eventually Kaemon is beside her wrapping his strong arms around her shoulders. They follow by foot Cherrie and Garren to the top of a rock formation looking over the miles and miles of scenery. Kaemon in awe steps closer to the edge before the drop off to take a phone picture. Alysa pulls his arm to direct him off the edge to her side. She pulls her phone out of her pocket and takes a selfie with Kaemon. Cherrie and Garren stand looking the other directions taking more pictures.

" Hey Cherrie can you take a selfie of all of us since you own a stick." Alysa yelled over.

Cherrie says " Sure" All of them next to eachother smiling taking a few pictures to pick the best one.

Alysa sits on a rock looking down at the bottom of the formation seeing a black lizard laying on a flat rock and decides to head on down there to get a better view. Once she lands on the level ground the lizard stayed where it was at. She noticed the yellow spots all over the lizards body. A pitch black color bumpy skin soaked in the warmth of the sun. Black small eyes still without movement. She yells from the bottom " Hey guys I found a cool lizard and want you to come down here to help me try to touch it."

A shocked face from Garren turns his body to quickly bolt down from the formation and runs to her exclaiming " Get away from that lizard Alysa!" He grabs her arm and yanks her back away from the reptile. She pinched his arm hard and walked back over to the lizard. The fat lizard hissed at her as she trys to grab the animal by the tail. An arm wrapped around her and picked her up as she is scrambling to escape from the hold. She turned her head to see those blue eyed individual dropping her back down. He calmly said " Alysa that was a Gila monster. Their bite could kill you."

She laughs " Oh really Kaemon. You think that reptile could kill you. Your the one more scared of almost everything. I think you should try to get the lizard to over come your little fears."

He shakes his head, " Alysa there are better ways to overcome personal fears. Just please don't step into a critical situation like trying to pick up a dangerous animal."

Alysa makes a sink face to Kaemon and walks back to the car listening to Kaemon lecture her about being awake and alert at all times. Once Alysa and Kaemon are in the beamer she turns the car on and drives off on the dirt road at a fast speed making it to the hwy back home. Kaemon sits in the car making no eye contact with her while waiting for Garren to open the door. A red truck passes by the home which catches Alysa's attention and couldn't really see who was driving the truck. She turns and opens her mouth for a remark, but decides not to tell it in front of Kaemon. He sees Garren's car park beside their's getting out to open the door. Once Alysa stepped out a wave of heat blasted at her. She immediately moved towards the door wanting to be cooled off.

Kaemon walked in the back of home to see how warm the pool water is. He noticed an empty beer can on the outside of the metal fence. He picked it up not realizing beer was still in the can somewhat cool. His shirt was stained with beer dripping on his hands too. A shot of pain from the healing scar located on his knee. A mild groan comes out of him leaning on a near by chair. No one is outside, but himself. Kaemon decides to work the knee out by going on a short stroll around the nice desert neighborhood. He gives a pleasent smile to all the people he passes by and questions himself in a low tone " Why would Garren want to hide that poster? Is he a religious freak or what? Christians can't be that insane?" Suddenly a low rumble of a truck passes by and stops behind him. He looks to see a red truck parked idle. From Kaemon's perspective the person wasn't as visibly easy to identify. There is litle to no sound except the truck. When he turns a corner no cars are seen and his legs start to speed up finishing the whole half part of the residential community. The sweat pores on his skin are completely wet. A cool gust of air covers him while entering the home. On the couch talking with Garren and Cherrie is Alysa who pauses and lands her attention on Kaemon standing in the front door. He nods and goes upstairs to shower off the sweat. Alysa enters the bathroom without permission and asks " Hey Kae, I wanted to let you know that I want you to come downstairs to see Garren's artwork if that's ok with you?"

" Oh yea, I'll be out in a minute" he replied.

Kaemon dresses in his comfortable army colored shorts with a T-shirt. Alysa waits at the bottom of the stairs smiling at him. Kaemon grins back following Cherrie down the concrete stairs to the finished basement. The pipes and heater's remained in there built postions. Straight ahead a bedroom filled with pieces of work. Garren walks out gesturing Kaemon to check out the room and a slam shuttered behind Kaemon's back hearing a lock from the metal knob of the door. Kaemon yells " Wait why did you guys shut the door on me? Are you playing with me?"

Many footsteps are heard walking up the stairs in a quick pace and silence took place. Kaemon chuckles telling himself " Oh Alysa I love you so much. I know you proabably have a surprise for me"

He finds a mini stool seat looking at the interesting paintings displayed throughout the small room. An echo of noise comes from the vents on the ceiling. Kaemon scans for a utility stool but happens to use the stool he's sitting on to stand up and try to define the voices battering. Many broken up wording comes through which becomes impossible for Kaemon to differentiate. The outside part of the room is completely sound proof except the room he currently is staying in. The paintings he notices are mostly abstract. He examines the room evenmore with the time passing. The small cloudy rectangular window he trys to open finally cracks a small sliver of fresh air into the stuffy room. His phone was on him and figured to distract himself for the time being. Eventually the room darkens once the sunlight dissapeared. A handy flashlight helped him out greatly. A pillow and air mattress sat in the corner to use for a temporary sleeping spot. He groaned and sighed while drifting off into a deep sleep.

At around six o' clock Kaemon awakens from his sleep and stretches. Kaemon stands up to turn the door knob and is still locked. He lays on the floor to see from the bottom of the door if anybody was present. An abrupt squeak of noise from the corner distrubed Kaemon so bad that he went over to see a gray looking mass bolt by. He sighs " I didn't know mice lived down here." A subtle rattle from the same corner emerged a rattler holding in his mouth the mouse. Kaemon freezes in shock scanning with his eyes for a shovel or shar object to kill the deadly snake. In the corner of his eye hangs a garden weed puller and slowly grabs the tool and aims for the snakes head. He thrusts the weed puller digging the tool into the loud rattling snakes neck. A bad smell fills the air. Kaemon quickly moves stuff to see where to dispose of the snake and used all of his strength to pry the window open enough to throw the dead mouse and snake. In the room still there was a dead animal stenchy smell. His surprise killing a rattler without getting bitten gave him a big smile. From the door loud footsteps came to the locked door. The door cracked open and Alysa offered a platter of rich food. He frowns " Um..I can get my food on my own time"

She replies " Well I have a bit of a surprise for you again. I would rather give you yummy food to hold you over for the next few days."

" What do you mean by days?" he asked

" Kaemon I don't mean actually a week straight" she replied.
Alysa leaves closing the door and locking it.
He yells " You know Alysa locking the door won't help."
Kaemon bangs on the wall with his open hand saying " Alysa locked me in the apartment so why is she doing the same act again? Hm...I know she mentioned a surprise in the apartment but I guess it was going to the night club. Maybe she's proposing me."
He paces back and forth spitting out theories about Alysa. He looks for a paper clip on the floor to see if he can try unlocking the door. The floor was cleaner than the dusty objects. He looked under everything and no paper clip to be found. His body tells him to lay down and rest for the day.
" Love yourself" a voice whispered
He jerked up from his bed looking around to figure out where the noise came from. Kaemon lands back on the pillow.
" Snake" the voice whispered again.
" Who is whispering into my ear?"
"Silence my child" the voice softly replied.
He frowns, " You did not answer my question"
" Danger" the voice responded.
" Um...Am I in danger?" he asked.
" Yes" the voice said.
A shiver crawls up Kaemon's spine creating goosebumps on his forearms and legs.
"Window" the voice quietly said.
" I can't even fit through that tiny window voice. Are you gone?"
A long strand of quiet remains. Kaemon's still body falls back asleep.