"What's it to you? Are you some sort of undercover cop?" She asked looking around nervously."No!" I giggled, "If you want, I got some money, I was won...ering if you'd be willing to... You know? Help a lady out?" I started to blush."Oh, wow, um-" She seemed really surprised, she looked around again, probably thinking it was some sort of wind up."Are you serious?" She asked."Yeah, sure I am." I grinned sheepishly."Wow, never had a woman come up to me looking for some action before!" She beamed.I. We are going to do it like this, three teams, eight hours on surveillance duty, four hours back here on paperwork, twelve hours off, but on call.’ Stepping over to the white board he started to brief the team, giving times, dates, addresses and names of people. Watching at the back of the room one of the cops sat listening, taking it all in, biding his time to make the phone call and the information he knew Alexei would pay him a real bonus for giving him. * The bed and breakfast cottage was. Richard was my liege lord, and king. That was a long time ago...I became aware of my unique condition, in my thirty-fourth year. An arrow had pierced my armor. I lay dying in a tent on that lonely battlefield.The king's surgeon had treated me. That is to say, he'd removed the arrow and had packed my wound with flowers of sulfur, in an attempt to quell the flow of blood. Looking back on it, I believe he was a bumbling idiot. I should have warned Richard. Breathing was difficult.I was in and out. Perhaps my mom was wrong about the Academy but still, it made me alittle wary that Jen's parents gave money to it. Jen led me into thegirl's common area and bathrooms which both were like the Holy Grail forboys. No boys were ever allowed near those areas. The common area wasmuch like the boy's, just a different color scheme. They had the sameAcademy run television. The bathroom seemed a little larger and hadprivate stalls for the showers. I liked that as in the boy's it was afree for all and.