He didn’t give me a second look. He thinks I dressed like this for a date. “It was for YOU, Jim. No one else,” I said to myself. I cried for wha...t I had foolishly lost.I got up, dusted myself off and went about my business still thinking about Jim and how to get back in to his life. Just then, my phone rang.“Angie? Hi, it’s Allen. Are you still mad at me? I’m sorry.”“What do you want, Allen? I have no intention of being one of your fuck buddies so whatever you have to say, make it fast. Oh, and. ” we reply at the same time. We bust out laughing at our identical responses. He sits down next to Michelle and across from me. I glance at Michelle and see her looking him up and down, all but drooling over him. He looks at her the same way and then they both look over at me grinning . Looking at both of them I know they are going to have a fun afternoon. “So you two really like to share huh?” he asks us. “Yes we do.” we reply. “Damn how did I ever get so lucky.” Richard says. Although. He’d maintained his condescending attitude right up to the moment her mother and youngest sister had been taken by the invading forces. After that, her father had bundled her and her remaining two sisters up, fleeing their farmland and heading straight to the giant stronghold, begging Bowen for assistance. There they’d found out that more had been happening within the Clan Connelly’s lands. So much more. This had become more than a simple matter of cattle raids and hostage taking. The horrors. She opened both eyes. They overlaid each other almost precisely, moving in perfect unison as they said, ‘Jo?’ ‘What are you?’ she murmured, as much to herself as Coach Erickson. She reached up, brushing at the tip of those impossibly long ears, unable to believe the evidence of her own eyes. ‘What are you?’ she whispered again, staring wide at the thing in front of her. Her right eye saw Coach Erickson sigh in resignation. Her left eye saw the creature’s eyes widen in surprise and alarm. its.