”“Indeed so. I had to find out as much as I could from the elders of the village. It was not much, as the sea people were a suspicious lot – not... surprising, considering what befell the other crew.”“But you don’t know exactly what happened to that crew. The pirates may not have killed them; perhaps just left them on shore somewhere.”“That is a possibility, my dear, but we have no means of telling. Those on the other ship did not say anything to the villagers in that regard.”The two summoned men. As soon as Fritz turned up, Anita's and Nina's faces brightened a whole lot. I smiled inwardly at the realization that for a moment they had been jealous. Just after that I thought to myself how lucky I was that they seemed to go on so well together.We stood and chatted while Sabine went out of the room and came back in with a tray with empty glasses on. They were not the usual kind of wineglasses. These were rather shallow in the glass-cup, high, thin stems on a foot. Fritz saw my looking at. She seemed to be just as shy as I was. A time or two our eyes had met and we both blushed and looked down. I figured she was just about as miserable as I was. Little did I know at the time that she was trying to deal with something that made my life look like a Sunday afternoon walk in the park. It was Friday afternoon. I walked out of the school building and had managed to avoid all the assholes that seemed to be drawn to me like a magnet drawn to metal. As I walked down the street. Send. My heart was pounding. What is he going to say? What am I going to say? What if he doesn’t reply? What if he does?! I could always block him or anything. I don’t have to meet him. Do I?!It felt like ages before he replied “Hi Amy, great to hear from you. Of course it’s cool, any friend of Carrie’s is a friend of mine!! Are you coming to visit Turkey? My name is Hakan”“Hi Hakan, yes I’m coming on holiday with my parents lol. Not exactly fun but Carrie said you can show me the fun.