"The remaining survivors of Route 23, Kimberly and Thomas Burke, were found dead in their home in Southern California this evening. In what turned out to be another freak accident, they were both found strangled in their bed sheets. No news yet of exactly why this happened, but officials are reporting that they make have moved about too much in the sheets and as a result, they were contained inside of them, unable to move, as they died."

Danny watched the screen as this news was a shock to him. How had Kimberly and Tom died? Why? It was official: Death was indeed closing the gaps. But why had it come back for Kim and Tom? Danny was a big believer in the stories he was given by the accident on Route 23 and the crash of Flight 180. He had plenty of ideas about it. But none of them could be confirmed. Except...

"In other news, local resident Aaron Carter was the only survivor of yet another freak accident. A suicide attempt from another resident nearly killed him. The resident jumped from a skyscraper downtown Detroit and collided with Aaron's car. In an ironic twist, A.C. had stopped the car and went into a liquor store on the corner to get a drink for his wife. The suicidal resident hit his car just after Aaron walked into the store. We cannot share the name of the resident until the family claims the body. Aaron was not available for questioning at this time."

Danny stared at the screen. Was it possible that since Aaron escaped death the rift in Death's design had been reopened? If that was true, obviously Kim and Tom would have been next on the list. Danny laid back on the bed he rested upon as his fiancC� Lalaine walked into the room. She looked at the screen and sighed.

"A.C. died?" she said.

"No," Danny told her, "he escaped."

"Oh." Lalaine sighed. "Wait, you're not gonna start up with that a�?death is after him' stuff are you?"

"Of course!"

"Grr...," she complained, "if I didn't love you so much I'd hate you." She smiled reassuringly and jumped in the bed next to him. He grinned back to her and put his arm around her waist.

Danny was a good looking black boy. Short hair that wasn't even a fourth of an inch long. He was pretty built, but not too tight in muscles. Average guy. He was also pretty tall, around 5'8". But what really caught the girls happened to be his brown eyes. They blended well with his usual wardrobe.

However, Lalaine was a brunette head with greyish eyes. She was an inch shorter than Danny, and Danny took advantage in this difference to tease her playfully. They had been together since the end of high-school, and had even went to college together. By the end of their third term, Danny proposed. They were to be married during the summer, and have the honey moon for the rest of it. It was the perfect plan for a wedding.

Danny looked at Lalaine, "When we go to Hawaii, I don't ever want to leave the hotel."

"Aww...but you're gonna have to!" she giggled, rolling from under his arm and hopping out of the bed. "I'm going to take a shower." She smiled to him, and walked out of the dorm room. Danny reclined in the bed, closed his eyes, and drifted to sleep.