I dragged a clean pillow and blanket onto the couch and put on a movie, just to fill the empty space. I sat on the couch trying to watch the movie but... I couldn't concentrate. My phone started ringing and I checked to see who it was. My best friend Jon, was probably calling to talk about some stupid sports game he just saw. Sports are one thing I hate but I bear with it just for him, I've known him almost all my life after all. I met him in kindergarten and we were inseparable to say the least.. She added a daintynecklace Mum had picked for her."Where's your curling brush Lorelei?" she asked Mum, "I want to put alittle more curl into my hair this time!"Aunt Edwina was looking in the mirror and fluffing her hair with herfingers."I'll get it for you Edwina," Mum said as she pulled out her electriccurling brush from the drawer. "I'm glad to see you're beginning to getthe hang of being a woman!" I'm glad you picked this dress for me, Lorelei," Aunt Edwina said as hestepped into her. No one ever bothered visiting the old Quartermane place anymore, a ramshackle collection of farm buildings dominated by a huge old barn and a house three or four times the size of any in found town. Unoccupied for at least fifty years, hardly anyone left could even remember anyone ever having lived there, and when the wind would blow, strange sounds echoed from the holes and cracks in the tired old walls, which was just about enough to discourage even the bravest k** to go to poking around the. ”“He received his Silver Star at the same time I did. We go way back, even before that incident, and he’s always been the one true friend I could count on, since I lost my brother.”“From what I heard, he feels the same way about you.”“Like I said, we go way back ... and for a couple of days over there, it seemed like it was Kyle and me against the world ... but we survived by watching each other’s back.”Amanda helped her cook make three salads and as we ate, we talked.“Louis, I’d like you to.