But, I do thank God every day for giving her to me.’ ‘What you have in common is you have both been betrayed by people you loved. When Mike was a ...enior in high school he started dating a girl in his class. He was really taken with her and had hopes they could have a future together. Until the day he found her in bed with his supposed best friend. Mike was so upset that as soon as he graduated he joined the Marines. He told me later that he just had to get away for a while and the military. "Her face twisted for a moment and tear started in her eyes. "I wish I didn't make mistakes." Hell," I said "then you'd never, ever learn anything." Oh, that sounds okay, but I make too many goofs. I just can't help it." She looked away, hiding her tears."Bullshit," I said evenly.Her head whipped around and she stared at me, slightly shocked."You cussed," she wondered."I do that when something pisses me off too much." I guess you can get away with that at your age." At any age, Arlette. I was a. ’ Thor climbed back onto the platform and thumbed the spring-loaded toggle switch. His ‘action figure’ vanished. We all jumped. ‘Son of a bitch,’ gasped Carley. ‘It worked!’ The figure of Thor was now in the other box, across the room. Fluffy, completely unimpressed, walked to the sliding glass door leading to the back yard and meowed. Carley ignored her. I could barely speak. ‘Reverse the polarity and hit it again, Thor,’ I croaked. Silently, Thor turned a knob on the control board and. If we both hadn't been spoken for, I'd definitely have made a play for her. But as it was she was just my landlords' daughter and that was all. That was until one day about a month after I'd moved in, when all that changed!!!I was working at a timber yard in Bilston and one afternoon, I wasn't feeling too well, so I went home sick. When I got home, I wasn't expecting anyone to be there, Hazel and both her parents worked so I thought the house would be empty. As soon as I got indoors, I went.