Chloe was now over an hour late. A cold fear gripped him. Maybe she wasn’t coming. Or she’d had an accident and was in the hospital right now. He ...could feel himself start to panic as the reasons for her non-appearance grew more and more fanciful.He was almost at the stage of phoning the resort complex to enquire what was wrong with her when he heard the familiar putt-putt-putt. He relaxed, his head falling back as he sighed in relief. Then he sat bolt upright. There was another girl sitting on. He had told me, at least five times already, that he was only stitching me to reduce the scarring that would occur. Hearing him talk about scarring sent Mama into a stronger fit of crying. I heard Dad say something. It sounded like he said Richard and Mr. Connor were going to prison for doing that to me."Dad, it looked bad to Mr. Connor. It looked to him like I was playing with Brenda's boob." Mama stopped crying, immediately."Did you patch it up with her, Kenny?" The way she asked that, I. This was a very profitable morning!We got back to town long before noon, and the bartender was amazed when two heads were dumped onto the bar. “How long before I collect my bounty?” Hippolyte asked.The bartender sputtered a few seconds and said, “I will have it for you by supper time.” Hippolyte nodded her head and walked out to visit the armorer before lunch.This merchant had all sorts of swords made of bronze. She looked through the complete assortment of longer swords until she found one. Yes I did and if you want your secret kept then you will do as I say when I say understand? Orihime looked at Shadow curiously, and silently nodded. Chapter 2 Shadows new friends and first Hollow fight Shadow followed Orihime to school silently that day as neither one of them spoke. Once they arrived at the school Orihime enrolled Shadow and brought him up to class, Shadow reluctantly went with her. As Shadow came into the class the whole class stared as his hair being Blood red in the front.