'Picking up the package, I was drawn to the couple on the cover. A hunk ofa man and a petite blonde on a bed in a shared look of ecstasy. The smallpri...t below them read: Spice up your sex life, try life as the other sidefor a night.Looking at it then, I was enraptured. So much so that I pushed it into myboyfriend's arms and begged for him to try it."Please, Jake." Despite my best pout, I could see the reluctance in hisglazed-over eyes. The apprehension in his arms as glanced at the blue andpink. Ben Harker: shy, nerdy, virgin. What a hand I was dealt.Natalie and I started college at the same time. But midway into the first semester, she withdrew from all of her classes. Something wasn’t right with her. She had always been a heavy sleeper, but those days she could sleep for weeks if you didn’t wake her. Even when she was awake, she was too lethargic to focus. It was like her body was trying to force her into a coma.She had been seeing a new specialist and things seemed to be improving.. I needed to make it late enough to make sure my parents wouldn't make the return trip home unexpectedly. I woke up Friday morning and hurried to my window only to see my note was still on his car. As I walked to my car to go to school Charles held a paper up in his kitchen window with the word yes written on it. All I could do was smile and I left for school That night was all I could think of that day. My girlfriend could tell I wasn't focused on school day things and kept asking what was. "I laughed at her and said, “I have been called a lot of names before but never a witch.”She took her hands off my forehead and said, “Back to sleep Katerina.”I was right back at the trial. I looked for my great-grandmother, but I did not see her. I sat in the back and watched the proceedings.The man in charge was a man called Heinrich Kramer. I was horrified at the words he used to describe women. I watched as the two women there were sentenced to burn at the stake.I woke suddenly and looked.