”This evoked a nervous giggle from everyone.“Finally, as we grow up together, attending dances, birthday parties, and Family BBQs, I will love you...appropriately. Until then, Claire McArthur, will you accept this Friendship Promise ring, with all the love and affection that goes with it?”It got so quiet you could hear the clock on the wall ticking ... and maybe even my heart beating.Claire lost it and was crying very much — her mother motioned to me to go to her. I got up and did. I put my arms. He on multiple occasions he had slapped me and on the night that our baby was conceived it was the result of a rape, the first of many, in fact. I wanted to leave him, but I was convinced he would change after he saw his baby. I knew he had hoped for a little boy to carry on his name and I also knew that he wanted a Junior and at night we discussed the possibility of boy and girl names. After my pregnancy was announced, he stopped hitting me and became an attentive Father to be. The day that. No structure amongst the lawbreakers, no honour amongst thieves, led to them all turning on each other, bumping each other off for ultimate power. After about a year, fourteen of the fifteen people who used to torment Castor City regularly were six feet under. Be it in cement shoes, bullet ridden or melted by acid in a drum somewhere, they were taken care of, not by the law, but by each other. The fifteenth, well, he’s gone. That’s a long story. Needless to say it’s why I find myself at this. He said good and walked out the door. We hugged but we were still paniced.Brandis' brother came to us one afternoon, he said remember when i said you would have to do what i say? We looked and were terrified.. I couldnt help to think that our carelessness got us into a sticky situation. He said he wanted me and Brandi to have sex, while his friends watched. He told his friends about us and they said they would pay him to watch. Brandi looked frantic, i was aroused, i told her that it would be.