.didn't feel anything at all...no pain, nothing atall. He realized he couldn't move, speak, or even open his eyes. Now hewas gripped by a real terror!...Had he survived the shooting, only to endup blind, and paralyzed? Was he in the hospital? What the hell was goingon?Suddenly, he heard Magnuson's voice. "Mark, Mark, can you hear me? God,I hope you can. I hope you can hear me. And I hope you can understandwhat I've done to you. I have saved your life, in the only waypossible...but you may be. As it turned out, her car wouldn’t start because the car wasn’t all the way in ‘Park’. Dani joked, “I've never met a real live airhead before. No offense!”“None taken,” replied Cassia. “Believe me, we're out there. Hi, I’m Cassia Simpson. And no, it’s not Cassie or Cass. It’s Ka-See-Uh.”“Hi, Cassia. I'm Dani Hai.” Despite being polar opposites, they became best friends. Cassia dragged Dani out to parties and social gatherings, while Dani made sure Cassia managed to get through her classes well. The guys that took me to the cinema came back after an hour or more and picked me up, but by then I could not find my clothes, in fact I never got them back, so I was given a coat to put around myself and told to bring it back the next day.Later in the month, I was invited to a party, well invited may be a bit of a misnomer…It was a party at the farm...I had been kept in the kennels naked but fed and watered for a couple of days...I knew I was going to be abused because I was allowed in doors. Of course that would all change following the first pep rally of the football season. As was tradition, the coach introduced all the senior year players, including Kyle, and made special mention of his high hopes and expectations for what he could do for the team. The next day, during every class change, girls would stop him in the hall to introduce themselves. It made quite a commotion during several breaks, so much so that Kyle was late for the next class twice.The first game was against a.