‘I think you broke Hawk’s heart when you said you were gonna stay here.’ Jeff said. I looked over at my stepfather. ‘Yea I know. But like I to...ld him , I just got out of a bad relationship and as much as I love him I can’t just jump into another one.’ Jeff nodded in understanding. He reached over taking my hand in his. ‘It will all work out in the end if it is meant to. If you and Hawk are meant to be together you will be.’ As I crawled into bed next to John a little while later I hoped that. “No, not that, tell me about what happened at the party.” The impudence of his answer only exaggerated her deliberate tone. He felt a burning surge welling up his body and prickle his cheeks. “Come again?” His feigned nonchalance did not work. The expression of bewilderment on his face laid bare his inability to recall precisely what did happen at the party. He could feel his synthetic confidence ebbing away from him and it was written all over his face. “I was with my friends the whole time,. Each little note spoke of how beautiful her secret admirer thought she was, but there was still no identification. One day in addition to the comparison of the roses beauty to that of Amy’s, there was an email address, ti_amo_molto at some anonymous email service. Her roommate, Val thought she should write to him. Val thought this was all very exciting that Amy obviously had a secret admirer, she was unconcerned that Amy thought it might be a stalker. The arrival of the email address made her. All of this meant that anyone stupid enough to want to inherit the job of mayor was going to find a complete train wreck waiting for him or her, and even our so-called 'opposition', a collection of the long time residents who'd benefited most from or just liked the prior regime, or were scared spitless of me and my friends (not to mention our plans for the village), didn't want the job either. None of them!Our Justice of the Peace had set the village election to be held in one month, Thursday.