“Get back into the bedroom and put some clothes on, you damn hussy,” he panted. “But I’m getting ready for bed,” she complained, extracting ...erself from his grip quickly. “Well then go put your pajamas on,” he stammered furiously, pointing down the hall. “Ok, Ok,” she said retreating down the hall. “Why can’t you loosen up a little? I was just playing.” Ed and Joe faced each other in the living room staring at each other awkwardly. Joe felt the urge to apologize, but he didn’t know what for.. "Through all of this, John was being the best friend he knew how to be. He told Simon, "Look, mate, it's not really my business, but when you've broken up with a girl you got close to like you obviously did, you need to get over it. All right, I grant you that you've got your head back on at work, but afterwards — you're still going to hurt someone. Not physically, but some of the girls you've been out with since then have been really nice, and you've been acting like a bad'un."Simon shrugged.. I slumped back down on the bed still gasping for air.I swiped the hair out of my face again, looked up at him and started to laugh.“You really had me worried there darling, you just kinda keeled over, luckily I had hold of you otherwise you would have been on the floor.“You’re not k**ding you had hold of me, you had hold of my soul. Wow, that was some climax, I really felt it inside my head then everything just kinda went blank.”“Do you want some more water, you must have been dehydrated. And then the next... I spun around to look out of the rear window directly. The advancing blackness held a darker shape in it's centre, a lumbering shape of indistinct dimensions, its lope bringing it towards me.It had already closed about a third of the distance between us as I sat there.I locked the shift into drive and booted the gas. The car lurched forwards with a short squeal from the tires. I watched the scene recede in the mirror and set off swiftly away from it. Whatever the beast was,.