‘Well, Valentine’s Day was coming up so I bought her an extra large box of individually wrapped chocolate candy. I also bought a box of ex-lax. Yo... know, the kind that helps give you the shits.’ Everyone was laughing, they knew what was coming up. ‘I gently unwrapped each piece of chocolate and rewrapped a piece of ex-lax in each piece of foil and then placed them in the nice chocolates box. When everyone was leaving for lunch I noticed Harold was still in the room. So I acted like I didn’t see. I think Mom had decided to potter about in the garden for a while and water some plants, although it was almost dusk.At about 10pm, she came into my room and said, "I want to get an early night, can we get the last measuring session over with now?" "Sure, mom I said" turning around from looking at my computer screen on which I had been doing my homework on.I thought she might go out of the room and ask me to get undressed and give her a call when I was lying on the bed, but instead, she said,. I was about to attack the other Hessian who was standing with arms outstretched, looking hopeful, when someone cried "Stop, halten," and the girl with the bloody nose who was just climbing to her knees cried, "Behind you!"I ducked and spun about to face a big man with a sword in his hand. He leapt gracefully from the carriage door showing me his teeth and whirling his weapon. I parried his first thrust and cracked him in the side of the head with the stock of my musket. It made a sound like. I’ll be there.’ ‘Promise?’ Sheryl teased. ‘I promise. But I need a nap first.’ ‘Okay. We’re leaving, for real.’ Casey and Sheryl left the dorm room. Rachel sighed and laid her head on her pillow. Rachel lay awake on her bed. She kept thinking of Casey. He invited her to a party, with a formal invitation. He was really cute. And Rachel had been working pretty hard lately. Doctor Gordon wouldn’t mind if she took just one night off. He was understanding like that. Rachel found the cordless right.