" Well, I've kind of gotten in the loop of what's been going on with you, and Gabby, and Lizzie. And from the things I've picked-up here and there fro... the two of them, and from my daughter, it sounds like there's been quite a line of girls who have come and gone for you."Vince looked dumbfounded."Is that what they said?" They all have, in one way or another. And Lizzie and Gabby told my husband quite a bit about it, and about you." That's what Alexa told me. Well, I don't think she said Gabby. I swear to god, if I hurt myself and miss out on cheering camps this summer, I am going to murder my asshole brother, she grumbled in her mind.As she carefully made it another 10 feet through the trees, Emily shined the flashlight over the bizarre sight of her brother lying sprawled on his back in the leaves, his right hand balled into a tight fist and pressed to his chest. A look of agony was etched on his still face.“Jesus Christ, Ben!” she yelled as she darted the last five feet and dropped. “Good-bye, Willow,” she heard him say just as she passed through the door.--0--Seated in the rear of the car of her rideshare, Willow watched the city go by. With the rain coming down and streaking the windows, the view of the streetlights was obscured and blurry, just splashes and starbursts of colour on a black backdrop of night. It didn’t matter. She wasn’t seeing through her eyes at that point. No, her attention was turned inwardly, looking back at herself, asking if she knew what she was. She was jogging towards me and she had the spark with her again. She was out of breath by the time she reached me but was too excited not to speak. "I just got a great idea. Instead of going to Philly why don't you stay with me this weekend? You said you didn't really want to go to the wedding anyway right? So forget them, hang out with me. We'll have fun I promise!" I was having trouble understanding her but I got the basic idea. At first I thought she was crazy. I couldn't just not go. But.