Her family seemed protective of her, I thought. They did not like her out late, although they were okay with me bringing her home and then hanging out...with her in the house. There was a back room which was relatively private, but we were still chaperoned by the girl's grandmother. I thought this a bit strange but consistent with her parents being over-protective.Although a bit odd, this all made the girl, Miriam, even more, interesting to me and I guessed that she was probably a virgin. I was. I'm becoming high maintenance!* I complained seriously to Amy about it. She got a little vocal on me. Must have been a 'bad hair day' for her or something."Gary, if you think just taking a little care of your hair and nails is time consuming, I just wish you had to go through everything I do to look pretty. I've got to pluck eyebrows, do nails and hair, toenails, shave pits and pubes in the summer and do legs all year long. On top of that I have to wear a bra and hose and heels. You have. The kinship between us is gone. I don’t understand what he’s become, but he’s no longer the brother I once knew. It was the Betrayed ... they did something to him, I just don’t know why Auri-El would allow this to happen.”“What exactly did the Betrayed do?”“They swept into the Chantry without warning and began killing everyone without pause. The Chantry was a place of peaceful worship. I led a small group of paladins, but we were no match for the Betrayed’s sheer numbers. They slaughtered. Living in the same small village, our families had known each other for years and Andrea Jones definitely knew I liked her. But, for some reason that my juvenile brain couldn’t fathom, she wasn’t interested in being a girlfriend, not even as we progressed through secondary school together. She’d occasionally flirt with me — but that was it. After secondary school, I moved away to college and we lost touch. Life moved on. I finished college, started working, and ten years later, I got engaged..