The wind howled fiercely and made me feel unwelcome as if telling me to move on.With the window again closed, I noticed that I was feeling intimidated... and breathing faster.As the engine restarted a violent gust of wind shook the Citroën. I tried to tune in a radio station to keep me company, anything would do, but all I found was endless static and ghostly whispers.Having fresh eyes lifted my spirits. Alert again sensing every bump and dip in the road, I listened to the tyres doing battle with. It was like a drug, watching him and realizing the control I had. To be fair, he was game though. To give him credit he kept looking and kept trying to think of something to say.I looked him up and down. He wasn’t ugly. To be honest though, he wasn’t beautiful, like me. I just kept smiling, saying nothing.“Do you guys play football?”I must have looked startled, “Football”? I leaned back and took a sip of my soda through a straw.“Yeah, do you go to St. Olaf’s or Hollycroft, you know, the. ‘I want the monster dead. We won’t be too early and we won’t be too late. If that kid dreams of anything else then he is just having nightmares.’ Keme released his arrow and it hit the border of the target. ‘You might as well stop dulling your arrowheads,’ said Zoa. ‘There isn’t enough time for you to get good enough to kill anything.’ Keme grabbed a new arrow. ‘Making fresh arrows keeps the weak ones calm,’ he snarled. ‘It keeps them busy during the day, and keeps them from fleeing at night.’. Well lost isn't quite right as I was happy to get rid of it. As I turned 16 I developed a philosophy that if one girl was good, two were better and more were better still. I can't count the times that I would be "going with" one girl, when another lovely would catch my eye and off I would go in pursuit of a new or additional female companionship. Obviously this lack of fidelity had a detrimental effect on many of my relationships. Many times I heard "Oh John how could you? I thought you loved.
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