with arms wide open (gracie)

"Good afternoon Miss Baseley." he said in his austrailian accent. "I trust you had a gidday." he extended the flowers to her. "This is for you." he told her. "You might want to check out what's inside the blossom." He had placed a golden ring inside the flower.

Jack shrugged. "Mum and Pop were both orphans to begin with and they didn't have any other kids beside me. So it's just the three of us." he said, as he led her towards the park. He had to gain her sympathy, because getting sympathy was the easiest way to get a girl to like him and gain her trust. And the one thing Jack always depended on was his charm and the trust others had in him. He wouldn't beable to live his lifestyle without it, and he loved the way that he lived. So when he explained that he was an only child, his tone was soft and just a little bit sad. A girl as naive as Gracie seemed to be, she'd have no problem falling for it.

Jack nodded with a heavy sigh. "Sort of." he told her. "There gone all the time. Dad is in the funeral business and believe it or not he is actually gone all the time because of it. Mum is a mirine biologist so she often swims with the fishes." As he was telling her this, they came to the edge of the woods. "All right, you have to be carefull in here. It's easy to get lost. You wouldn't just want to go roaming around in the woods without someone with you." What Gracie probably didn't realize was that every word he said could be construed as a threat. Afterall, the torture he would do to a girl who was roaming in the words alone, like that girl who was roaming in the woods last week, he never even got her name. He just started right in with the fun. The most dangerous kind of fun there was. That poor girl never had a chance.