I gulp, waiting to hear an interesting story.

"My family had always been dangerous, but it wasn't till we encountered a beast that we became real Dacana," he pauses, to see if I'm listening

"Stop here Son," Pete said, sitting in the pasenger seat, next to Alex.

Alex grumbled, but stopped.

"Dad, what do you need?" Attida looked at him, concern in his eyes.

"Oh just my medicene hon," Pete says, patting her hand.

"Which one?" Alex, asked.

"My Dacana one, you know, so I don't turn into one." Pete said calmly.

Pete was like a grandfather to me, and you know how grandfathers love to joke. But this was no joke.

"What!" He cried out, "Well then I'm definetly coming with you, I don't want my baby girl getting hurt."

Alex put his arm arund Attida, as if to say, I can take care of her on my own, thank you very much. "But we don't have a car," Alex said.

"You don't, I do," Pete said pulling out keys from his pocket, 'and with a new liscene plate, the cops won't be chasing us." Pete threw Alex the keys.

Alex grinned, "OK."

"We're going to save Roberta," He said simply.

You could see the aniexty in Pete's eyes, he wanted to go so badly.

Attida put her arm around her dad and hugged, "Daddy, you know you can't go. It would be too hard for you."

"You're right," Pete said, straightening up. But he still had tears in his eyes.  

He wobbled up the hill, panting, his hand on his hip.

"Dad!" Attida cried, flinging her arms around his neck.

"How'd you get here? You shouldn't be here!" She wept into his neck. Then she walked him up the hill.

Despite what his daughter said Pete was grinning. "So, what are you youngsters doing?" He sounded like he wanted to join us, like the little loner kid who wants to play with his older siblings.

I bit my lip, I knew he couldn't come with us, it would be to hard for him. So  what were we suppose to tell him?  

CHAPTER 5

Pete.

"The police!" Attida screamed, running right behind me.

"Hurry! Hurry!" Alex shouted, trying to help us up the hill.

"Put your hands up!" said a cold voice.

But how could I explain that to her?

Alex's voice called to us from a hill, "Come on. We have to hurry if you want to get there."

I didn't understand that louder whisper, why would her voice become louder? Maybe Attida and Alex heard it.

"Hey guys," I start, then bite my lip, afraid to ask.