Michelle found herself walking a fine line between keeping school andher fellow students at arm's length and making Ruth believe that she wasactually ...aving fun as a coed. Only a few months into the school year,things began to unravel for Michelle.Ruth was actually home at a decent time in the evening and answered thephone before Michelle could get to it. It was Paul Rodgers, repeatinghis invitation to take Michelle to a movie. Paul had been one ofBrandon's friends before he had vanished the. She joined in feasting and soon all of the food had been consumed."Was it good?" Yes, thank you..."The girl was looking at the table."Hey now, what's wrong?" When are the cops gonna be here?"Getting up, Vallerie headed over and sat next to the girl."No cops. How old are you?" Almost eighteen. My family kicked me out." For what? Screwing the football star?" No, for refusing to be married." What?" My family is Asia and my parents follow some of the old traditions." You don't look Asian." I know,. If you are not interested in these themes, please do not read. Of course, in real life much of what is portrayed in this story is despicable, and should not be tolerated under any circumstance. Hence, why this is a story of fantasy, and should not be taken seriously.DISCLAIMER #3: While themes of the story certainly can be dark, I do try to keep things light with a certain "comic book" style. Again keep in mind that this is a work of fantasy and not everything will be fully realistic. Enjoy!. The army could use gold more than anybody just then, and Jimmy said he would give half to the government, if we would go fetch it. So off we went, Wendy and me, with three days rations and a pack horse. I had tried to get her and the boy to make a map but they disagreed so much about details that we decided to take the girl along as a guide. Lt. Foster gave me the usual lecture about behaving myself. I promised I would not touch the girl, and he laughed and turned his back.We camped the first.