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then up to me again. “This one?” he asked. ”Are you sure?”
    I nodded my head smiling. “It’s one of my favorites. You don’t like it?”
    He laughed. “No, I love it! It’s just that I thought you would pick a comedy or
    something…”
    I finished, “Something girly?” He nodded his head and I laughed. “Nope, I like action
    movies.”
    “Alright, 300 it is.” He walked to the stand which held the DVD player and what seemed like every game console ever made and put the movie in. I sat down on the couch and opened up my soda and ate a chip with salsa on it. He turned the lights off and sat down beside me as the previews started to play. I relaxed into the couch and felt the stress on my shoulders. Billy sat back against the couch beside me and clicked the menu button to start the movie. I smiled excitedly as the movie started to play. I could practically say each line along with the movie, but I kept quiet so Billy could enjoy the movie as well. Halfway through the movie a message
    blinked at the bottom of the screen. Billy sighed. “Breaking news alert again.”
    I turned to him and asked with a shaky voice, “Can you turn to it?”
    He shrugged. “Sure. I’m surprised you want to after how much has already gone on.”
    I frowned harder. “I haven’t heard anything. Darren has been keeping me and Bret away
    from the television so we haven’t heard about what’s going on at all.”
    Billy’s mouth fell open. “So you don’t know what’s happening?” I shook my head. “Then
    you need to watch this.” He hit pause on the movie and changed inputs to go to the news.
    The reporter was the same monotone reporter we had seen at the diner. His face seemed
    more solemn than before. “Another attack and another country completely decimated…”
    I turned to Billy. “What is he talking about?” He shushed me and pointed at the
    television. Pictures started flashing on the TV of a city with buildings on fire and hundreds of dead bodies everywhere. I gasped. “What’s happening?” The look on my face shifted from
    curiosity to disbelief.
    The reporter came back on screen. “The entire country of Mongolia is completely devoid
    of human life.” The bodies in every town have all been found left in the same state of mutilation: their throats ripped out and their blood drained. Some even seem animal ravaged, but we believe that may be from scavengers who smell the decaying corpses. We haven’t been able to find a single shred of evidence as to the cause. Scientists are baffled, saying that they do not believe this is some type of disease, but no answers have been found as to what or who has been causing this. Video surveillance is unable to pick up anything either. So far the following places have been hit… Japan, Russia, North and South Korea, Nevada and now Mongolia.”
    I gasped. “Oh my God! Why wouldn’t Darren let us know about this?! It’s kind of
    important.”
    Billy shrugged. “I don’t know.”
    The shock slowly set in, “We were just in Tahoe. What if we had been there…” I
    remembered Darren making us leave so quickly from Tahoe and then it had been massacred.
    Could Darren be in on it? I shook my head dismissing that thought. I stood up. “I have to go.”
    Billy stood up and followed me to the door. “Okay, but will you come back?”
    “Not tonight. Thank you for a great afternoon.” I put on my best smile and put a hand on
    the doorknob.
    He held up one finger. “Hold on. I got you something.” He walked over to his bags and
    rummaged through them. I twitched nervously as he came back with a small white box. He
    handed it to me. “Here, I thought you would like this.”
    I opened the little white lid and gasped. A silver chain with a silver wolf hanging from it glittered in the white box. I stared at the small wolf and whispered, “It’s beautiful.”
    He kissed me lightly on the lips. “You can come by anytime you want.”
    I smiled at him and kissed his cheek.