None of us had the balls to knock on her parent’s door on a Friday or Saturday night to be greeted by her father who at the time we believed was the...toughest, meanest human being on the planet. A legitimate war hero and combat fighter ace he had a look that turned adolescent boys to jelly. A former college wrestler, he also looked like he could tear you limb from limb. Her older brother was a senior with me and a good friend, her younger brother, a sophomore was also a friend. As boys hang out. I started asking her in a low voice what shewas up to. She just grinned at me, then went over to our bedroomand shut the door!I ended up having breakfast with Kate. We didn’t talk at all and shesort of hovered over me–I guess she always is doing that when shecooks up breakfast, but since it was just the two of us, it seemed soobvious. Jane and Leslie never showed up. I went back to thebedroom after breakfast and the door was still shut–and a set ofmy clothes was neatly. I knew I would have to use it to get out of here alive. I was not going to just stand by and succumb to these hideous creatures. I was not going to be their latest victim. Before I could turn around, something pawed at my waist. I doubled over as pain seared through my body. I looked down to see that the cut was not very deep but my shirt was in pieces. The paw came at me again and closed around my neck. Just as soon as it had latched on to me, it let go. What on earth? I thought confused. The. He found it ironic that he was on his way to have a lunch meeting with someone who wanted to send him to Paris for work and here he was, watching the young woman he lost to Paris walking along the other side of the street. The car zipped through a traffic light and as quickly as she had left his life, she was out of his line of sight. His driver stopped outside of a restaurant on the next corner and James wrinkled his nose at the dilapidated quality of the outside. ‘I hear they serve.