I can't see it here, but I'm also short, weak and need to lose weight. My mind careens from my physical to my emotional faults as I wonder: why can't ...I shake off this crush, this love that I know is hopeless and a phantasm? Why does it seem so real as to be the only thing in the world?Harsh light from above. The crush of the anonymous crowds of a megalopolis high school, ninety percent of the faces unknown, ninety-nine percent unacknowledging. Walking fast, a bit uncoordinated and narrowly. He was a tall, slim guy, with brown hair and had the most serious look I could find. He seemed really surprised with the clear chance he had with me, as if he wasnt expecting a chance like that to fall into his lap that way. Everybody used to tell me I was pretty, everybody. Short (52 1/2), moody and a true brainiac, but pretty. What always made them think that I was supposed to be the first to share a bed with someone, thanks to the number of guys who already asked me out. But it wasnt that. Men flew as I crumpled armor.I roared in savage fury.Lasla“Las’s big dick,” Kurtis cursed, staring down in horror at Brazen. His leg twitched while the rest of him... I didn’t want to look. Now Solja charged at the stands right for a squad of shadow knights. They would cut him down. He barreled into them and threw them back. He clubbed them. Broke them. He picked one up and swung it into another in a vast clash of metal.“He’s gone berserk,” gasped Tharaka. “He has orc blood in him. This is bad.. They chatted for a couple of hours that evening, feeding each other information about themselves as they chatted in private while chatting with the group in the room, and he discovered that she was a bit shy.The second night, after she thanked him for the roses, they discussed family. She was an only child of deceased parents. They had taken their own lives five years before upon discovering that her mother had an inoperable brain tumor.His parents, Hank and Nora, were still living -- a Baptist.