Not a single girl complained to Rita, and several were actually bragging.Rita heard these stories all the time and never said a word to anyone so the ...girls felt they could trust her and invited her to be their chaperone at several of their private parties. She was very careful to ask them to invite me, which they did at first. But one of the black football players got very infatuated with Rita and didn't want me around (not that we knew this at first). We just thought that I cramped their party. It looked back up at melike a thing that wanted to hurt me. Now I knew how an Angel felt whenshe stared down the barrel of a loaded gun. Don't back out now Tracy, Itold myself. I looked up at him and gave him what I hoped was a teasinggrin. An Angel never loses her sass!I took a deep breath, opened my mouth wide like you do at thedentist's, and lowered my head till I felt his big purple raspberrybrush against my lips.Just then there was a blinding flash.Before I could fully recover there was. ”“Is she still out there,” he chuckled, “you didn’t tie her up and leave her out in the woods, did you?”“No, silly Daddy,” Lisa said as she hugged his arm and led him to the bedroom, “she is waiting for us in the hot tub.”Jase sat his bag on the bed then walked with Lisa to the door that led from the bedroom to the screened-in porch that housed the hot tub.“Hi, Jase,” Shelby said as they walked through the door, “welcome back.”Lisa let go of Jase’s arm, walked over, and kissed Shelby.“How about. I live in a land far to the south and the west. It is so far away that it would take a man six moons to reach it, but for you if you wish the spirits can take you there in the blink of an eye and there you can start again in lands you may call your own without fear of raiders taking what is yours and killing those you hold dear. I will let you think about it while I go and talk to the people of this village and tell them what I have told you. They too will have to make some choices and those.