"Come on, everyone has to have some ID."I shook my head. "My father tore mine up, along with my driver's license, when he threw me out."Frankie, who w...s a tall dark-haired beauty, said "He what? Why?" It made me sit down and rest my head in my hands."You wouldn't believe me if I told you, and then you'd laugh at me and throw me out too." I started to cry just then one of the waiters came back with a large order. I wound up sobbing to myself as I felt the rest of my world collapse around me. I. ‘Seriously,’ I protested. ‘It’s not like that, honestly. We’ve been friends for years. Just friends, okay?’ ‘Friends?’ I nodded, surprised to hear something approaching disappointment in her tone. ‘Drew and me—we could never have that kind of relationship,’ I explained, struggling to keep my words light as the reality of that statement started dragging at my chest. ‘It just wouldn’t work. He’s not interested in me like that. And that goes for me too,’ I continued hastily before my heart could. ”“One day, that pastor is going to say something to my face, and he’s going to regret it,” I said, fuming.“My dad ignored him,” Susie said. “I think honestly that after everything that happened in the last year, Mom and Dad are going to find a new church. They just can’t deal with Pastor Kent at this point.”“I believe it!” I said, shaking my head. “I just don’t get it, really.”“My parents aren’t the only ones who have a problem with him, but the elder board is behind him and all those old men. After spinning for a few seconds, I let go, sending the bone horror crashing into the nearest wall, exposing the area where its stomach would be, which wasn’t protected nearly as well.Grabbing onto two of its spikes even as it launched some of the others in an attempt to impale me, I held it to the wall as I took in a deep breath of air. It wasn’t fire that I breathed this time, but was instead the frigid cold, all directed at one spot on its underbelly. The extreme cold spread out from there,.