"We can't..." Her hands were clenched tightly in her lap and her legs were pressed firmly together. I reached down and took her hands in mine, moving... them aside, then put my hands on her thighs and pried them apart. I heard a sharp intake of breath, then "Jake, what are you doing? Don't..." "If you want me to stop, Jen, I'll stop." "S-stop..." she said, but her voice was low and had no conviction in it. "You're gonna hafta do better than that, big sister." My hands slowly slid up her. Eckert had been watching her sleep. He untied her hands and helped her sit up a little. She drank half a bottle of Gatorade, and lay back. "Did you tell me you love me?" He nodded. "Good, I'd hate to belong to someone who didn't." Belong?" She'd confused him. He didn't seem to understand, or he might not want to understand. A wolf would keep someone as a possession and he didn't want to be one.Marla ignored the question. "I love you too, you're the best thing ever happened to me. Can you do it. Hazel took Katina to chairs on the wall behind us and they sat down.Jonathon was there with Janet and Calveen. I saw Robby talking with Jackson. At another area of the table were signs for Mickey, Roger, and Nan. I later learned that Mickey was the Elder of the Oaks with Roger and Nan having charge of the institute located there. At another part of the table were Edgar and Morris. I found out later they were from Chalk and Huey respectively. There were two more seats taken. In one was Minnie,. As the years past, I became more and more withdrawn. I no longer had friends at school for fear of making my father jealous. I did well in school only for the dream of escaping. I had been young and foolish to pray for someone to save me, no one ever came. I stopped praying and eventually learned to live the life I had. On my fifteenth birthday my father told me that he had boughten my a special suprise.My daddy had always kept the tradition of giving me a special surprise on my birthdays and I.