"He's exaggerating. It isn't that bad. Do you know why? Because I SAY it isn't, and MY opinion is the only one that counts!" Crystal snarled."Well..."...Desiree ducked her head.It was my turn. "The night Crystal and I met, I was drunk and angry and I did something reprehensible. If you were pushing things -- and I do, in my own mind, because I can't forgive myself, you could call it assault."Crystal took it up. "Keith..." She stopped to savor my name. "Keith didn't hurt me or anything -- he was. The Leonids seemed to not care about the masses of people out there who had not been enslaved. They just were concerned with the movers and shakers, so to speak.These power brokers still wielded great power and they knew how to use it. And use it they did, for the benefit of the Leonids. And, of course, they had help from the inevitable traitors, concerned only with their own comfort and benefit. Soon all the mechanisms of society were under their control, as they had been before, of course,. So she knew that she might not be exactly like the other girls. Or maybe she was like some of them, and she didn't know who they were. It was confusing. It was hard growing up. She didn't know what was going to happen now. She felt so alone. Their new town was a fishing village. And there seemed to be lots of artist studios. Diana had spent days wandering through the streets. It didn't take long to learn where everything was. It was so small. Their cottage was only about a five minute walk from. "I just want to know who he is," Brianna said.Unfortunately I caught Kendall's attention. "What do you want?" Uh ... nothing," I mumbled."Oh ... hi!" Brianna said."You know him?" Kendall queried.Alex answered instead. "He's that guy who rescued Brianna."Kendall looked me up and down like she couldn't figure out how I could possibly do such a thing."Nice to see you," Brianna said with a smile.I loved her smile!"Yeah," I said and moved on.I was going to get something else for Brianna. I just had.