"Allen laughs, "I saw his hand feeling your leg under the table the other night, it looks like you've gotten to know each other pretty well. Plus... h...e bought you a phone this week. If I know Roger, you two are either already fucking, or you're getting close to fucking."Hearing Allen say that makes Jerry blush. "Oh, yeah, that... well... ummm... OK... he did fuck me a little bit Saturday night, but... I'm not... umm... you know..."Allen interrupts, "Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to put you on. "You all right?" the man asked."I guess so." Jared felt a pain shoot up his right arm. "No, maybe not." I've called the police," the man said. "Why don't you just have a seat and rest for a bit."The police showed up a few minutes later, and after checking his arm, called an ambulance. Over the next hour he gradually pieced together what had happened. His three former friends had decided to punish him for not supporting Elrod's alibi. They had thrown the blanket over him so he couldn't fight. Jasen was more lost in her than he had ever known possible. The steady pounding in his chest became the only thing he was aware of outside of her, and even that was far in the background. Her sways expanded through the others, everyone moving by the times the chorus came the second time. The rap portion came, lines rippling through different women as it went. The whole worlds scared, so I swallow the fear The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer So cool in line and we try try try. She was afraid of him. She did not want to admit but she knew she was afraid of his nearness. He was not like her previous boss – the lecherous bald guy who tried to pounce on her at every opportunity. He was nowhere like him but he was lethal. He threatened her entire existence and she feared the way he was bent on having her. ‘Why?’ she thought to herself and sighed again. She hid her face in the crook of her arms and cuddled into herself. She had been ready to leave Xentrix but she doubted.