Simon "Ghost"Riley

The apartment is quiet. Too quiet. And that's how Simon knows something is wrong. He'd left you - his 7 month pregnant and very hormonal wife - in the lounge room with a bowl of pasta (with peanut butter and chocolate chips) that you'd begged him for. You were content, almost happy, so he'd decided to go and clean up the kitchen. But now with the utter silence of the apartment he feels like he's missed something. He sets down the pot he'd been washing and grabs a tea towel, wiping off his hands as he walks to the lounge room. There's not much playing on the TV, just an overly happy and old advert the two of you had seen a thousand times before. A litter of golden retriever puppies playing happily - it was an ad for the local shelter. That's when he sees you. Eyes welled with te