”“You’re not a pain in the ass,” she said. “Except that girls like you too much and get scared.”That made me feel pretty good. It was comp...icated, though. The guy who all the girls ‘just want to be friends with’ is the guy with a constant case of blue balls.“Okay,” I said. “Some guys aren’t assholes, but you never know until you’re around them for a while. Tanya doesn’t gamble and all I’m saying is that if you didn’t gamble then you wouldn’t have a Steve problem right now.”“I don’t have a Steve. Deep red lips that you just want to devour and a body so perfectly proportioned God himself could never hope to build a better body. “Nathan,” she says nicely. “Yes?” I reply. “Why are you late?” she asks. I respond “I’m sorry, I don’t have a reason I just got up late.” She says, “Just don’t do it again Nathan. Make up the 30 minutes before you go home tonight please.” I nod and go off and do my day. A day later and I wake up late again, since my ex-girlfriend left me I haven’t been sleeping,. He told me that he often visited the 'tweeners' from the past everytimehe fed, explaining that as long as I lived within my host properly, Icould potentially live forever. In his words, for all the lives he took,he had to give the ultimate gift to one, but to have that gift, therewere things I had to do, things I shouldn't do, and things I didn't haveto do. First, I had to get seman inside me. That was my life blood. Itwould store up within me and once that ran out, so would my life.. A quick warding gesture came between Rebecca and the Guardian.“Blade, your duty is finished,” Mrs. Weed said.The pressure against her chest immediately released and the gatekeeper placed the point in the ground. He rose again before her and whipped the hood from his head. His face was smooth and young, shaved so closely you would almost think he had no facial hair beneath the closely cut blond hair on his head. Rebecca gasped. The Blade. He had said he was part of the family. Was this what he.