" Steven laughed. ONE wish. A cut rate magic lamp. He knew things like this were often sold in novelty stores and assumed it had somehow washed down t...e river and become lodged in its current resting place. He tried to pull it from the sand, but it was firmly anchored. Even after he scooped away some of the surrounding soil, the lamp remained firmly embedded. Laughing again to himself, he brushed the sand away from the writing, in the process "rubbing" the lamp, and then stood and returned to. And I am on a country road, two lanes of mcadam, a single white line down the middle but it’s not taking me home, I’m in the west part of Missouri really not heading anywhere in particular, I had a vague notion of turning north in Kansas, wandering through the Dakotas, but maybe not.I like the backroads of America, the interstate system is great if you want to get from point A to point B the fastest but they’re homogenized. Florida to California, Perkins Pancake houses, McDonalds, Denny’s, the. But it had been there, and I knew it. So did Bellcauniel.I remembered that episode now, when I talked to ‘my ladies’ - since that was how I almost saw them now, and they certainly were ladies - they were the only ones to spend a great deal of their time with me. I had concentrated on getting back in shape, and I felt that the only way to really do that was to go hunting again.But the real reason to remember that week-old episode was that, for a very brief moment, I was again able to feel that. She clutched her bag tighter and kept walking, wondering where Ron was. Miss Secret, my foot muttered Kat under her breath as she walked towards her college. She really needed a new set of friends and most importantly, a new boyfriend. Why didn’t anyone realize how she felt? She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn’t see the 6’1′ tall guy standing before her. She felt like she had collided into a brick wall. She was off balance and hadn’t the strong arms caught her, she would have been.