But she quickly lent forward and rested her fingers against my lips. "Shhhhh. I know. I feel it too." I took and kissed her hand. "In a way, I've know... for a long time." she whispered as she moved closer to my side. She saw the question in my eyes as I lifted my arm for her to slip under. "Shawna always talked about you." she said as I felt her warm breath on my right cheek. "By phone or by e-mail. She would tell me everything about you. The things you did together." She looked at me in a sad. She sat up as she tried to pull the branch away from him. He ripped the branch from her hands and swung it at her, striking her across the side of her head, dazing her. She fell backwards as he swung down on her with the branch. Sandra raised her arm to block. It connected with her forearm with a loud crack. Aching pain shot up her arm and she cried out in pain as she rolled to her side. she felt him kick her hard in her lower back. She arched her back and rolled onto her back as she. . and then I heard distant singing.I followed the sound of the voices, feeling a strange urgency to reach their source as I hastened through the labyrinthine streets until, turning one more corner, I came to a huge square that was packed with people, all the town's inhabitants must have gathered here. The singing had stopped, and all was silent, no one talked, everybody looked straight ahead, towards the square's other end, in expectance of an event that I knew nothing about.Slowly I moved. I found the bus was quite empty as I was early. So I got my seat and was listening to songs for time pass.I was almost dozing when the bus started. Still, the 2 seats beside me were empty. I secretly prayed to get some hot girl there. But the bus started moving. I was a bit upset just when we had hardly moved half a kilometer when the bus stopped and two middle-aged ladies entered.They started some conversation with the conductor which I couldn’t hear. After a few minutes, the conductor came.