“Fuck, what part of Quiet did you not understand, remind me not to invite you on a stakeout any time soon. Now observe my master plan. There is people all over the place here but who is the other side of the fence at Shane and Carmen’s? No one that’s who and that is our route out. My car is in their garage.”

I had to admit it did seem like a plan that might actually work, although I can see how utterly ridiculous we must have looked as we army crawled through a hole in the fence and across Shane’s yard, covered now in dirt and grass, to sneak in the back door.

Once through the house and into the garage Alice let me drive her precious car down the street while she kept look out and then met me at the corner to take over.

It wasn’t until we were safely on the road that I thought to ask some questions.

“Al. Where are we going and where the hell does everyone think you are?”

“Well we are on our way to your house where Rachel is waiting and the others think I am picking up place name card thingies.”

“What the fuck you busted me out just to drive me into another lions den, and if we don’t have the place names on Monday Rachel will hang you.”

“Calm the fuck down jail bait, we have it all worked out Rachel is waiting for you in the back bedroom with the door locked. You will have a few hours before they realise you are gone and think to look there and by that time we will have you out and back as if you had been in the bathroom all along. Oh yeah and I already got the name place thingies so they will never suspect me because I was just out doing what I was told and no one else knows about the plan so there can be no leaks.”

I leant over and hugged her, it was only a few hours but I needed to see her and it seemed that Al had pulled it of.

“Genius Al, thank you and don’t worry I will get Karen for trying to frame you, and maybe Porter deserves some payback too.”