Ugh...make it another time.I...oh...couldn’t...ugh... remember the name of the club..oh, God...you said we would meet, but...the cab driver knew a c...ub where...ugh...I could dance. I’ve had so many ‘dances’, I try to...rest ...ooh...and another...man cuts in. I’m having a great time.” James said, “Don’t drink too much.” Mary said, “I can’t finish...oh...my first drink, I’m on the ‘floor’ having...oh, yeah...a great time. I’m getting tired...ugh...and will probably leave soon, I’ll probably. Who all were there were in couples. He had asked me to wear dark clothes as it will sustain the privacy in the dark. So I was wearing a black skirt with Black 3 buttons open shirt. We went to see a horror movie. We took the kind of corner seats in the 3rd row from above.As the movie started in some time he kept his arm around my shoulder and I rested my head on his shoulder. He came closer and kissed my forehead. I lifted my face up to see him and then he kissed me on my cheeks. I smiled and. There isn’t love or light. There isn’t even strength. All I see is pain. I see pain and service. I see darkness and hatred. I see fear and anxiety. I see emptiness and fire. Not the fire that holds off the cold, but the fire that burns down your home while you’re sleeping.“I’m not trying to beat you,” I whisper. “Reyna plays games; she has winners and loser. I don’t play games.”“Everyone plays games.”“Not us. Not you.”“I’m not that girl.”“Yes, you are.” I see it so clearly. This girl is the. Kate had told her about it, and how she had named it Valentine for that reason. It had been part of her plans of things to do this first week, but hadn’t found the time. Harley’s sister had come home from college engaged and the family had been up in the air over it. Keni was glad for Heather, she was a shy, bookish type of girl and they had been friends of a sort in the summers that Keni had come to visit. Her fiancé Mike was a long, tall Texan and he was visiting for the next week to check.