Rhonda decides to keep walking and pretend she didn't see anything. The man continues to follow her. Eventually he yelled out to her "Hey little girl, stop!" She didn't turn around. He yelled again "Hey, did you hear me? I said stop!" Rhonda broke into a run. He began to run too. Fortunately for her one of the things that hadn't changed when she first drank the potion was that she was fast. She knew that, being a girl, she wouldn't have the same endurance she had as a boy because her lungs were smaller now, but that didn't matter. It wasn't that far to Richards house now. Then she looked behind herself and noticed that not only was the man gaining on her, but he had a gun drawn. She stopped and turned to face him. He stopped too, pointing his gun and saying "Okay little girl, we either do this the easy way or the hard way." Rhonda looked at him and said "I choose the hard way." She raised her palms and unleashed a burst of energy knocking the agent backwards several meters, when he hit a tree and fell to the ground unconscious. "Now's my chance to lose this creep," Rhonda thought. She quickly ran over to Richards house, ringing the doorbell. Richard answered and seemed surprised to see her. "Oh! Hi Rhonda. I wasn't expecting you. Oh, and happy birthday." She let out a small giggle as he blushed, turning his face a bright red. "Uh... come in!" He said, which she did. When they got to his room Rhonda turned around and took a deep breath "I need to tell you something..."