The enthusiast cheers of the crowd in the bar filled the room as the count down drew near Parker had come to this bar hours ago as she didn’t feel like drinking alone this New Year’s Eve.

“Three..”

“Two..”

“One…”

“Happy New Year!!”

The crowd cheering louder that before starts singing old lang syne.

“So here it is another New Year we celebrate it with such hope and cheer of a new being that the year well bring, yet each year its all the same you run and I chase with occasional glimpse of my past by you lab rat, never the less it's all the same. Well this nightmare ever end or are we forever doomed to live out this way of life until we die. Well Happy New Year Jarod” Parker thinks as she raises her glass in a toast.

Miss Parker than downs her drink and pushes a guy clearly drunk who was trying to give her a New Years kiss and past the crowd towards the exit.

Knowing that she should head home as she’ll be getting a call from a certain Pretend soon wishing her a happy new year and a small smile drew on her face.  

Parker was walking up towards her house when she could hear the faint sound of her phone ringing inside.

She raced towards her front door struggling to put her keys in the door dropping them a few times before finally opening it, slamming the door behind her leaving the keys in it, throwing her purse on the ground she runs for the phone reaching it just as it was on it’s last ring.

"What!" Parker asks effortlessly as if she hadn’t just rushed to answer it.

"Well a happy New Year to you too, I tried to call you earlier but you weren't home"

"Don't sound so surprised wonder boy I do have a life out of the Centre"

"Sorry I didn't mean to imply" Jarod says sheepishly.

"Whatever shouldn't you be off somewhere cozing up with some drunk floozy looking for some New Years cheer or plotting something" fighting back a smile wanting to form on her face.

"I would never take advantage of anyone in that condition and as for plotting something, as a genius I'm entitled do a day off now and than"

“Well enjoy living it up while you can by the end of this year I plan to be on some tropical isle, which means the only running around you’ll do is in your little wheel”

“Well somehow I doubt that, Happy New Year Parker” with that he hangs up.

“Happy New year Jarod” Parker says as she places the phone back in its hold. Finally giving into that smile.

She was getting soft for him that was the longest normal talk they ever had, a smile grew on his face as he mused over her antics to get to her phone which he saw from his hiding spot and thought to himself that this was going to be another fun year for them as he sneaks off into the early hours of the New Year.