With no small effort you manage to roll your head to one side and open your eyes a little, why was it so damn hard to move?The first thing to come int...o focus to your bleary eyes is a face and as far as first sights went, it was a good one. It is a female face with a smooth glowing complexion, prettily heart-shaped and fine boned. Deep emerald eyes looked back at you from under long dark lashes and a rosebud of a mouth spreads into a pleased smile exposing a row of perfect white teeth.“Do not be. The Polar was another of those very aggressive carnivores that attacked anything that showed up in its territory. We did not expect to have any trouble getting one to try to attack us. I figured that this would be another good training exercise, and I arbitrarily picked Charlie as the hunter.Yes, I was going along, but only as a backup gun in case Charlie ran into trouble that she couldn’t handle. We were both armed with the modified combat shotgun using hog-loads as ammunition. I had become. " I'm telling you. I'm not making you," I shook my head. "Do you want to die? Right now? I'll give it to you, Audrey." No," she whispered and I knew she was telling the truth.That girl would cling to life until the very last second. Nothing frightened her more than death, for some reason. Not pain, not me, nothing. She'd obviously never lost anyone she'd loved, because I'd lost my fear of death long ago, when I was nine years old. It was life that the girl should be afraid of, I thought, and I. Little did she know that today would end that forever.Walking home and listening to her IPOD, Jackie was thinking about her family and the fight that she recently had with her mother and father. They were no longer on speaking terms, and Jackie refused to give in. Her parents were upset about her decision to enroll in a college clear across country, and wanted her to remain close to home in order to help take care of her younger brother, who had autism. Jackie, on the other hand, wanted to live.