There were no villains around. Oops, we were wrong. There are always villains around. For there to be no villains, it would be like having light witho...t shadow. Brightness without darkness. There’s no such thing. And with Lou gone, I guess Bernadine has decided to finally drop the mask. She has decided to reveal her inner monster. And the target of her abuse and her fury is me. The hero of the story. Why me? That’s a question I’ve asked myself many times. I’m just a big and tall young black man. Jack held out his hand.“Partners?” he asked. I shook the offered hand.“Partners.”“Well, well, well, young lady. You finally got home,” I chided Lissa. Ten o’clock wasn’t that late but the boys were in bed asleep and I’d had a good hour to focus on drawing in the quiet house. With Lissa out on a date with Kate, and Melody across the mountains with Amy, the house seemed very big and empty after the boys went to bed.“Oh, Tony,” Lissa sighed. “It was so nice.”“Come here, lover, and tell me all. I’m wearing a red tank top that shows just the top of my white lace bra and a pair of blue jean shorts. Randy is wearing shorts and a t-shirt. This is normal attire for him at each of our meetings. We make our way back to the vehicles to get our overnight bags. After we have retrieved our bags from the vehicles, Randy holds the door open for me to enter the lakeside hotel. He talks to the front desk clerk and gets our keycard. The suite is large and has a queen size bed. I drop my bag and sit. Buffy took her time getting dressed. She had to wrap her fingers intoilet paper to keep them from bleeding. Escaping from ones grave wasdefiantly hard on a manicure. She picked out a fresh outfit and found thespare key. The house was so empty without her mother. With one lastmelancholy look at the familiar house she headed out the door. BuffySummers knew she was alive, the pain and the hurting told her so.The sky was beginning to lighten as Buffy reached Willow's Dorm. Withtwilight yielding to.