He was staring at me from a distance and a shiver went down my spine. Something about his stance and movements seemed odd to me. I knew I hadn’t see... him around before but when he made no move to come any closer I dismissed him from my mind as best as I could and took my meager amount of gardening tools around back to put them away before the sun went totally down. As I came out of the shed in the back yard, I thought I heard footsteps but after looking around decided they must have come from. I’m sorry, I-I don’t know what came over me.’ ‘I don’t mind.’ ‘It didn’t hurt?’ ‘A little, but I liked it.’ She sat up, sliding her fingers into the waist of his jeans, she pulled him towards her and kissed the shoulder where she’d marked him. He caught her eye, he was grinning like a Cheshire cat. She watched him leave. He seemed so familiar to her now after the intensity of the last few days, and yet he was still such a stranger at the same time. She pulled her knees up to her chest and. " That wasn't how I meant it," said Todd, back pedaling as Kerri steppedbehind him now, pulling back some of his hair leaving the rest in hisface. "Oucchhh! That's really tight." Don't be a big baby," giggled Kerri, flat ironing all the stands rightin front of his face now as she pulled through them once and then twice."I wasn't but..." Todd whined, reaching up to feel it and then Emmastopped him."Then who's being a bit delicate now?" said Kerri, gathering his hairaround his chin and pushing. After searching for almost half an hour, I suddenly panicked when I remembered it was probally in my pocket book that I had lost the week before. Jake started shouting that I had to pay now and he wouldn't even consider coming back for a check tomorrow or have me mail them a check. Even John said it was company policy to be paid at the time of the repair was done. I sat on the basement steps and feeling like the world was collapsing around me, I started to cry. Jake kept calling me "dame" and.