‘It’s great seeing you here, Kate,’ He’d said as he approached her at the punchbowl. ‘It’s been so long. Too long.’ ‘Yes, it’s been ... long time,’ Katherine had said. She felt herself trembling. Had he ever said why he didn’t contact her again once he’d been transferred to the West Coast? And, even so, why had she let it go down so easy? Well, perhaps marrying another man dying of cancer on the rebound might not have been exactly letting it go easy. It had been good with Simon those few winter. ...off we went again.Finally, we couldn't laugh any more and Billy just lay there, not saying anything but it sounded like he was whispering and so we stopped making noise and listened real close."I'm gonna kill those bitches. I'm gonna find her and her sister and cut them up in little pieces and kill them."Oh crap, Nadine and her sister Cheryl. They were at it again. I almost wish Billy had taken our advice and left town after the divorce. For almost a year now Billy and Nadine had been at. Waiting there next to her my face was burning red, she smiled and gave a quick wink, which eased my nerves because I think it meant "Its ok, don't worry about it" then I dashed back upstairs.Halloween came around my dad was stuck working nights, so my step-mum decided to attend their friend's costume party by herself, I was stuck at home handing out the sweets because I had assessments to sit the next day. So while I was in the living room, my step-mum was getting into her costume. A few. You whispered something into my ear to silence the voices. Voices that screamed like the howling shrill of wolves stalking prey in the cold, dark wood. Voices that haunted you too and only when we meshed them together would they cancel each other out.So, I leaned heavily back into you.I smelled the subtleness of your perfume. It elegantly mixed with hints of smoke and stale beer that clung to the fabric of the drunks surrounding us. It charged me. Electricity bounced off my skin igniting the.