“The gist of it was that Will was acting inconsiderate. He and Vinnie went out on a double date with Laura and this Rita girl that Vinnie met last w...eek. Laura and Will were all over each other, and Vinnie didn’t think Will would do something like that since it was his first date with Rita. And...”“And what?”“Um...” Alaina hesitated. Is she going to get jealous? “Well ... Will also started acting differently towards me. He, um...” She paused. “I guess Will likes me? I mean, Vinnie said he did,. This battle was not the heated melee of the legends, nor was it anything like the battles the old men talked about. There was no great horde of horses meeting head on, no flight of arrows that could make a king wet his breeches, and no duel between two Tumens on a field of blood and corpses.Instead the Jani struck at dawn, breaking through the northern youngling bands as a sharp knife gelding a stallion. I later heard that Rukhala, my youngest uncle, was among the first to die, but his brothers. I wasn't done yet, I still had so much conflictin my head and heart and I could still feel that smoldering anger deepinside. Paul didn't respond at all but with a look of grim resolve hedidn't break off. I just shook my head and returned back to my thoughts.We were about a third of the way around this time when my thoughtsreturned to Alicia. I thought about how I had met her and Jen when Ifirst moved here in 2nd grade, we all instantly became friends, even whenI had hit the start of my downward. OK maybe they were to big for mebut I was still new at this and just learning. I also was a garter andstocking girl. Still am by the way. My favorite was the white opaqueand just made my legs look so good. With my very own new sundress(buying that is a story in itself) and my pumps I was beginning to takeshape. I had my own wig (red head sweetie) and my own make up kit nowand I still don't know if the sales girls knew that they were reallyfor me, and I didn't care.So now I was just the cutest.