Casey punched me in the arm so hard I had a bruise for three days.--The next time I saw her outside of classes was at some boozer Casey dragged me to ... few weeks later. I had to admit, she looked fine as hell. Perfectly painted face, her dark makeup contrasting with the lightness of her skin, the cat’s eye design of her eyeliner drawing attention to pools of deep green. She’d ditched the emo ensemble in favor of a schoolgirl uniform type thing that I hadn’t known I needed to see before this. So as we were leaving I began to tell the wife that they were going to get drunk as hell and began to tell her that they had brought a bottle of homemade moonshine. As we began the ride everything was pretty much normal, and about 30 minutes we began the first phase of the stop, talk, and go cycle I had previously talked about. Each time we would stop we would grab us a cold beer out of the cooler and pull us up a piece of ground and talk. For the first couple stops the conversation was. My coterie and I set out from the citadel and proceeded south through Maradrim. The public was always overjoyed to see me and yelled out from the mob for me to bless their babies, visit their shops, and obtain my kingly advice. The 24 years I had ruled the city had been good to its citizens. They were safe from invaders and my city guard strictly enforced the laws of the city. With my armies bringing in new lands every year there was always a flood of new goods into Maradrim, and everyone. "Inoticed she was wearing the same earrings that you have. Was that youridea or hers?" I hoped we weren't going to fight over this. I explainedthe earring situation to Sam. Darla had the diamond studs but wouldn't beable to wear them for a while yet. Sam seemed placated by my explanation."That girl has everything, doesn't she?" he said at last. "She doesn't have you," I said and kissed him on the cheek. "You mean, she doesn't have you," he said to me and returned my kiss. Ismiled back at him.