Caught you so take cover
What the hell was Faith’s problem? The kids didn’t go to school for another few hours and she was already bitchin’ to me on the phone. By that time I figured out that it was Sunday anyways, my day off. I figured PMS had kicked in or something so I was gonna have to go over there and tell the princess that it was my damn day off. It didn’t take me long to get showered and changed before I was on my bike heading over to the Osborn’s house. Things were so much easier when everyone just lived at the hotel across the street. Sometimes I saw the big broody guy going inside and Fred, but I hardly ever saw any of the Osborns over there anymore. They just gotta make my life difficult.

Once I got there and let myself in I just knew something was wrong. The place felt empty, it was the only thing I could think of to describe it.

“Faith!” I called out, but no one answered me and once I went into the kitchen I saw her cellphone laying on the floor in pieces. Cursing under my breath I headed up the stairs and peeked into the kids’ rooms. Both rooms were a mess, it looked like someone had ransacked the place but it didn’t look like they’d stolen anything valuable. What kind of shitty thief was that? The kind that wasn’t a thief at all.

Faith and Harry’s room on the top floor was untouched, and that made me worry more. I mean, a thief would have definitely knocked over the master bedroom. Pulling my cellphone out I called Lexi’s cellphone first but only got her voicemail. I would have left a message but that girl was more unreasonable than her mother and her aunts put together. Instead I called Tyler’s cellphone and sighed in frustration when I got his voicemail too.

“Hey brat. It’s me. Look, your mom called me up this morning having a hissy fit about finding you. So it’s my day off, normally I’d be out riding my bike or watching the game, or drinking some beers or hey, even spending time with your aunt but now I have to come find your ass. Why don’t you do your old buddy Alec a favor and just call me back and tell me where you are.” I said before I snapped the phone shut. Damn kids.

It took me almost twelve hours of riding around the damn city until I found them. I’d called Visa over and over again pretending to be Harry. Luckily for me I had a photographic memory so I had his social security number memorized and the rest was easy. People bent over backwards for people like Harry and I used it to my full advantage as I sweet talked the girl on the phone at Visa into telling me where the last credit card charge was. All I had to do was convince her that someone had stolen my son’s credit card and ask where the last charge was made. Some hotel….in San Diego.

So much for hanging out with Grace. By now it was Monday anyways and I guess technically not my day off so I was supposed to be working anyways. Faith better be damn ready to pay me some overtime for tracking her kid down. I’d already found her at the Hyperion. She’d been asleep when I swept through there looking for Lily who was also apparently missing. I didn’t even have to ask Angel, because well, because I’m pretty sure he hates me. So I just avoided him. Nothing like a little B&E to round out the day.

It only took me an hour to get to San Diego and when I parked my bike out on the beach I realized Tyler was sitting in the sand not all that far away from me. Well, that made things easier. Making sure my bike was set, I walked down the beach towards him and only stopped when he looked up at me.

“Dude, if you run? You know I’ll catch ya.” I warned him with a smirk. “What the hell’s goin’ on?”