All is peaceful in the bedroom, not a sound, Dale and Kelly have been sleeping soundly for quite some time.

Wait, it looks like Hebe Loa, the repair lady, decided to come to Lauri’s call late at night.

She was told there was a malfunction in the bathroom, but the TV also needed repair, so she started with that.

The repair turned out to be more difficult than she thought it would be, but the fee for middle-of-the-night emergencies is double, so those extra simoleons are well worth the trouble.

Noises coming from the living room, though faint, finally wake Dale up.
Dale: What the hell is that? Is it Sarah or Laurie getting up in the middle of the night? Or did someone break into the dorm? He is dead sleepy, but he’d better go check it out.

When he goes out to see. there’s no one in the living room, but now the noises are coming from the girls’ bathroom.

Dale: Should I go get something to defend myself? As much as Terry begged me, I never agreed to have a gun in the dorm, but in this case, it would help me to at least scare off the burglar.

After a few more seconds of hesitate, he musters up his courage and goes to open the bathroom door. The ‘burglar’ turns out to be this girl in braids and overall.
Hebe: Hey! Didn’t they teach you to knock before you came in?
Dale: What the hell?

Dale: This is my house. Who are you?
Hebe: Repair tech, why the surprise, didn’t you need me urgently?
Dale: I guess, but I didn’t call you, much less at this late at night.
Hebe: Yeah, you don’t seem to be that sweet girl on the phone at all.

Hebe: And you know what else? I didn’t come here to see some guy in his underwear, complaining to me for doing my job. I’m not here for fun, mister, I do this for a living. And I already repaired your TV, so that’ll be some extra bucks. Now if you don’t mind, I’ll proceed to repair your bathroom, you can go back to sleep it off if you like.

Dale: Woah, easy woman, I don’t mean to interfere with your work, I just got worried when I heard the noises. Admit it was risky going in without knocking, I could have hit you with a baseball bat or worse.
Hebe: Ha-ha, really? You don’t strike me as the kind of guy who could be a threat.

Hebe: But I’m glad you didn’t try the bat thing; my husband wouldn’t have appreciated it.
Dale: I can imagine, and I wasn’t going to, I mean, I don’t even have a baseball bat here, I was just saying, I would never have tried something like that.
Hebe: Hm, sure you wouldn’t.
Dale: Really, I’m sorry for the misunderstanding, you can go on with your work, just, next time, please knock before you come in, okay?
Hebe: Okay.

Dale paid the repair lady in advance and went back to bed. Kelly is still sleeping like it’s nothing.
Dale: Good thing Kelly didn’t wake up; she wouldn’t have liked to know there were strangers in the house at this hour. Knowing her, maybe she would have gone for the baseball bat.

Dale: Lauri should have informed me she was going to call the fixer; I would have waited up for him. Anyway… it’s still a while before dawn, let’s go back to sleep.

Repair girl has already finished her work.
Hebe: Well, problem solved. Sure, the sink is still just as dirty, but cleaning it is not my job.

Hebe: So that guy was Dale Cho? He’s a campus legend! The rumors are right, he’s hot; a little goofy, that’s for sure, but still drop-dead hot… and harmless. A baseball bat, yeah right.

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