."I patted the dog on the side. "Welcome to the family... " I looked at Jake. "We have to give him a name."Jake looked off to the side. "I sort of bee... callin' him Tucker. He kinda reminds me of a feller I knew a ways back who was always yappin' and struttin' around and such." And I suppose this Tucker fellow was a friend of yours," I suggested."Well, he was such a pain in the ass that none of the other hands wanted anything to do with him," said Jake. "Why are we jabberin' so much? It was. I made my way over to her bedside and found her sleeping. Above her bed was a basement window, covered with a heavy blanket that blocked out all light. I stood up and unhooked the corner of it from the nail that held it in place. It fell away and light spilled into the room.Then I sat down beside her again. I put my hand on her leg. Her eyes opened, squinting at me. She lifted her right hand to shield them."Ant?" she said, in a thin, croaky voice."Wake up, wake up. You've changed the world, my. He looked at Adrian and said to me,“Why don’t you get a dog Morgan and leave this pig alone.”I don’t know what came over me, as I’m not prone to violence, but the next thing I realized, I had blood on my fist and it was the same blood that was coming out of Philip’s broken nose. He got up from the ground, turned on his heals and ran home, I guess. I looked at Adrian and she smiled at me. She then took my hand and we continued walking to her house.In Spanish, she told her mom what had happened. So frustratingly gullible.Obviously, we made out and such. Her body was writhing under my hands and her soft girlish moans echoed off the walls, yet I felt absolutely nothing. Even as my fingers played and pulled at her hardened nipples, all I could think about was Kasumi. How would he react if I touched him like this?"Fuck!" I exclaimed. "I can't do this," I realized and started dressing myself."Tachibana? Where are you going?" she asked on the verge of tears. It irked me seeing girls cry, so.