Just before the last points of light disappeared through the forest canopy Paula spotted a camp fire burning in the distance and she hurried her pace ...owards the fire and away from the darkness of the woods that was beginning to surround her. When she reached the fire she noticed there was a mattress on the ground next to the fire and there was also a clean fitted sheet already on it. At each corner of the mattress there were four stakes that had been driven into the ground and each stake held. I was about to grab a beer from the fridge, when my phone rang. It was Derrick. He thanked me for pointing him to the stories, and asked if I had a few moments to talk. "Sure", I said.I was looking forward to relax and have that beer, so I gave him my address, went to take a leak, and walked over to the backyard with my beer. Not two minutes later, the doorbell rang, and Derrick looked like had just been playing basketball again. He was transpiring, carrying a red gym bag. k**s must not like to. " Within innocence lies that which they fear most, the simple truth that while others can find love, happiness and contentment, they know they never shall. They call it false, lies, and work against it at every turn. Only by trying to destroy it in others, can they hope to assuage its absence within themselves." A coward named Nicholas killed our friends today. He didn't have the courage to walk up to me like a man, to try and take back something which I took from him." He chose, like others of. "You are out a' your pig-headed Irish mind." An' you, m'freckle-faced tabby, you are all he could talk about, y'red-headed nitwit. Did y'have a good time at the fair, by th'by?" Lor, Billy. I think you're jealous." Damn right! I know I'm jealous. He's tall an' handsome an' he speaks good English, wears clean clothes and wants to be a lawyer. None of the things I am. I'm a jacked, lank-sleeved sojer wi' no trade, no prospects, no nothin', eh? He's to inherit some land when he's of age, so 'e.