This time, Alice and I were working inside the cabin when the Redsticks showed up, and all we had to do was to slam and lock the door and the window s...utters. Now we never go outside unless one of us is armed and keeping watch.“The problem with that is that it puts a big restriction on what we can accomplish.The garden has been neglected, and I am not sure how much food we can get from it next year under the present circumstances. Oh, hell, I have to admit it: I am just plain scared every time. A round coffee table was in the centre of the living room on a white rug. The stairs were opposite the front door and were steep, the kitchen was small with a breakfast bar. “Looks nice,” I say, putting my backpack down on the stool at the breakfast bar. “How weird was that what we just saw back there?” Clive asked. I laughed and put my arms around his neck and drew him in for a kiss. “Baby, I think we were seeing things. We’d been walking for so long and were tired and our eyes were playing. We had just moved here three weeks before from the city where I had been born and lived all my life. There we had a nice three bedroom house on a nice quarter acre lot in a nice neighborhood in a nice suburb. Nothing unusual, just a typical middle class American life. When my dad got the promotion and we had to move here, he and Mom decided they would like a place more in the country. They found one. Here we lived in a slightly older house, but one in good shape, on thirty eight acres. Still a. I smiled back at him. "Today I have a birthday present for someone veryspecial to me," I explained. I strummed the guitar lightly for a momentwhile trying to figure out how to introduce the song to them. "I thinkit describes itself pretty well," I finally told them.Without any preamble I started the soft, loving melody that had pouredout of my head the week before. As I sang 'My Hero' for them, I watchedtheir faces, trying to figure out at what point they knew who my songwas for. They had all.