It wasn't that he liked being alone--he was a red-blooded teenage male, after all--but he didn't seem to have many options. Barring a miracle, he was ...eginning to feel his books and games would continue to be his only real companions until he was done with college at least.He paused his morose musings as he caught sight of a small glint out of the corner of his bright blue eye. Squatting down, he pulled a mud-caked ring from the creek muck. It looked exactly the right size for his finger.. Somehow, he sensed that she was avoiding him. He immediately refused to perform at the event. He also made it clear that he would not be leaving the hotel to go anywhere until Pairen was by his side. As the day proceeded, his sister finally realized that it was not a minor temper tantrum. He refused to practice with the accompanying orchestra and locked himself in his hotel suite. He would not even let her enter. The result, his sister had to move heaven and earth to get Pairen there. When. And then there’s Beca. Fuck! She’s like my baby sister. I want to hold her and protect her from the world and rock her in a cradle. And I know, as fundamentally innocent as she is, she prefers girls. She’s not interested in me and I shouldn’t be interested in her. But seeing her in that schoolgirl uniform in the cafeteria yesterday and remembering the party ... One little wink from her and I was ready to throw it all to the wind.Fuck! I need to get my grown-up head on and start thinking with. .This part of the woods is not known to many but we meet here. Not as frequently as we would have liked, but not scarcely either. I have spent the whole evening to reach here from tracks where now few tread and now….. now I wait. The river courses through drowsy with fatigue. On both the riverbanks a stretch of sand lies before the glade begins. A pair of leaves play around without a care in the dust. Two moths wheel around my head, a couple of wolves slink by the periphery of my vision. Why am.