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couch and daydream, like she did when she was just a young girl. She had been transported back in time to an age where one would expect to find a magical fairy in a mystical forest. Her reverie was abruptly shattered as Marcie’s voice called through the front screen door. “Hi Lex, I’m here!”
    “Hey Marcie! Come on in. I’m in the living room.” Lexi invited her to join her on the couch.
    Marcie asked “So what is-.”
    Lexi cut her off. “Just wait, I love these last few minutes of the day.”
    Marcie quietly obliged, until the room darkened. “So, you went home and got stoned?”
    “No, goofball! I have always taken just a little time every day to relax my mind and stop thinking. The best I can anyway. It is sort of hypnotic or trancelike and it seems like it pulls the stress out of my head. I guess I’m just weird like that, but it helps me to focus better.”
    “Alright Lexi. Well, when you’re done hypnotizing yourself, let me know. Then can you tell me what is going on?”
    Lexi went over the events that happened earlier in the day and the mysterious letter that arrived. As Lexi’s best friend, she already knew about Kate and Kurt and had learned the biography of Lexi’s life.
    “What is so mysterious about it, Lex? Think about it. She went off on her research trip, realized that the coin back home was something that might fit in over there and wants you to bring it over. You’re the only other person that can get it from the safe or even go into her house. Am I right? She probably doesn’t trust it to go in the mail and she wants you to come over and do a little sisterly bonding over a pile of old rocks. Hey! Maybe that coin is worth millions or something!” 
    She thought for a bit and added, “She wants Kurt’s old spy buddy to act as a private security guard to go along and make sure you are okay. You are her only family too, you know. I’m sure she wants to be certain that her little sister will be in good hands.” Marcie thought for a few seconds about the best way to twist her own words to lighten Lexi’s mood. “Who knows? Maybe he will be good with his hands!” 
    Lexi smiled and silently let Marcie’s synopsis of the situation seep in to her head, to see if it covered all of her concerns before adding, “Yeah, I guess you’re right. Still, it seems odd that she would say that ‘we’ needed this dude along for the trip. I mean, this is the guy that Kurt said we should get ahold of if we were in any trouble. He didn’t recommend him solely as a travel guide.”
    With a sassiness only Lexi could pull off, she added “Or as a gigolo for desperate times!”
    “Ha! One more thing, and I want to say this in the nicest possible way, Lexi. She knows how you sort of…” Marcie stopped herself short.
    “Go on, just say it,” Lexi gave a tight smile.
    “Well, let’s face it. You’re always trying to conquer what life throws at you. I think that is actually the most admirable quality about you, but sometimes you have to know when to just let the tide come in and let it wash over you. You never know what good fortune could be coming your way. There was that time when you locked your keys inside your truck with Allie inside, remember? That’s an example of what I’m saying. Remember that hot piece of cop came along to help? When he paid you a compliment and tried to ask you out, you could have just went with the flow, but no. Not you! You turned him in for sexual harassment. The guy ended up moving away. Adam, I think his name was. Wrong conclusion. You possibly thwarted the forces of fate. It’s okay to let the wind push you in a different direction once in a while.”
    Lexi laughed and replied, “I know. I wouldn’t say I am a control freak, though. I don’t get hung up on pet peeves, you know what I mean? I’m not annoyed by the little things in life or the habits of other people. I just feel that my entire childhood was left to what you called the forces of fate and fate