"I'm a going, no sense in a shooting when we need sleep." The young man grumbled as he moved his meager possessions.The blonde man laid in the cot lik...e bed, fully clothed.It was an hour later that a movement cause the blonde man's eyes to pop open. The blonde man laid as still as he could, watching the young man from before along with another young man move toward his cot.The first young man made a slashing motion across his neck as he pulled a large skinning knife. The young man made a motion. “Like hell you are,” screamed Brian.“Oh yeah, what are you going to do about it littleman?” one of the men said laughingly.“Please… you have to be kidding,” sobbed Danielle.The next move, however, convinced her that they weren’tkidding at all. One of the men grabbed her and threwher back up against the wall. She knew from the layoutof the ship that no one would be able to hear her fromall the way back here. She cried and pled with the man,but all. " Where was I supposed to find a phone?"She noted what he was doing. "What are you looking for?" I need to get blood out of the car seat."The kids started gathering around. Mary started to bawl. Apparently, someone had given her a ride home. "I didn't want to leave you behind, but you told me to, and I was so scared that they were going to hurt you..." and so on. Hearing Mary, Susan started to cry, too. It looked like Charlie might start in next."I'm all right, everybody." I opened my arms, and. For Halloween the year you were one, you were a vampire and the year after that you were Piglet and your mom was Pooh.” At this point Carter was looking at me very strangely. I wasn’t sure if he was afraid of me or just curious. “How do you know all this stuff?” he asked quietly. “I mean – some of it I don’t even really remember, like the birthday and the Halloween costumes. I’ve seen pictures though.” Shakily, I slid him a blank letterhead and let him read my name off of it. “Carter, my name.
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