As you enter the house you feel instantly warm, it is dark and you’re puzzled as to where I am. You smell the fragrance in the air and you smile, th...en on the door in front of you, you see a note, it reads: Follow the rose petals to find me, don’t turn on lights use your senses. You barely see the ground and take off your shoes feeling around with your toes the rose petals leaving a track down the hall. I hear you coming and lay prepared, waiting for the trail to lead you to me. The rose petals. He seemed to have the opinion that the people who lived in the city were crazy and that you could get everything you could ever need right inside his village.They enjoyed the ride once they got past the city and into the countryside. The lush fields and the old buildings were just like out of the paintings that came from the old masters. Whenever Mandy wasn't staring out of the window in wonder, she was furiously sketching on her ever-present pad. The driver was telling them they were getting. He'd HAD ENOUGH. He had worked hard to earn what little he had. Life took and took and took. Now it was time for life to pay him back. He'd just turned 18 and was getting the fuck outta this. He packed his guitar and a few of his things into his Camero and made ready to get outta the suburbs and into the big city."Ready, man?" Tom asked from the passenger seat, eager to go. Ready to live the high rolling life in the city."You'd better believe it!" Rick told him. Soon all that was left of them. She kissed him again, warmly and they said a short goodbye until they walked to school 30 minutes later. Roy's mom rolled her eyes and told him what a lucky little boy he was to have Kathy as his friend.Kathy kept her window curtains closed together from then on and they never again talked through the windows as they had since they were 6. Roy understood that she was a girl and that girls normally didn't let boys see them naked, even if, like Kathy, they had no boobies yet. He left his curtains.