Taking Beth out to dinner during the week was getting to be a regular thing. She said she had no problem in having her parents babysit and she enjoyed...going out to dinner with Ron. The subject of socializing with a fellow co-worker was never brought up by either of them.At one of these dinners about a week before Christmas, Beth remarked that the Christmas vacation days from school started tomorrow for her children and that they were staying overnight with the grandparents tonight. Ron didn't. The rutted farm track made it difficult to keep a good view of where I was going and at the last minute, I just made out the fence around the old duck pond at the fork in the track. The car nearly lost a headlight as it broadsided on a fence post and I only just managed to regain traction on the gravel. As I roared away on my new direction, the back of the car shuddered from a massive blow from the black mass that had almost been on me. The pond water flashed high in the moonlight as my pursuer. While this was certainly a great achievement for the Lan, it was a great problem for the Zi and Qing, but an even greater catastrophe for most of the villages pillaged during the military campaign, and Mei's one was one of them.Luckily she was away from home when that happened, allowing her to escape tragedy, but from then on the young teen had only herself to rely on to survive, so she took a broken sword from the ground and began to walk, unsure where she'll end up yet unwilling to just. ' I looked around frantically - 'Like watch a movie?' I said, spotting a DVD rack.'Yeah, good idea, this is lame.'Chantelle looked though the rack, putting out a few DVD's, until we agreed on 'Hot fuzz'The movie was good, but I watched it before - making me fall asleep.I woke up to the sound of the credits on, with Chantelle's arm around me.I glanced at the clock, 2:45.'Now might be a great time to go home' I mumbled.I turned my head round to the bed we were squeezed onto.'Wait, where's.