I’m afraid you were just an easy mark for me to take out my frustration.”I shrugged. “Apology accepted. It’s forgotten. That’s what friends ...re for.”She smiled. “Okay, thanks.” She brightened and seemed glad to get that over with. “You know, the café is usually a little empty between now and dinner, so we could go somewhere.”I looked at her. She had a little grin on her face, but I was trying to figure it out and where you could go in that small town.She stood up. “C’mon, let’s go.” She stood. The twins were lying on the floor watching something on the Disney Channel. The girls on the screen had cute tits, but other than that, I had no idea what was going on."Coach Vickers. He wants me to come in a little early." Early?" I said as I tickled Tami's ribs. She was sitting across my lap. "Doesn't he know you're off the team?" Not anymore."I raised an eyebrow and waited."Seems there was a conference call between Parker, Mr. Reed, and the WSAA right after school." Oh?" The Washington. They got me. I'm bleeding. Help me."When his mother and sister arrived Nick was sobbing in the middle of thebed, blood soaking a spot in the sheet below him. He was curled up in alittle ball, his lavender babydolls all askew. "Who got you? What'swrong, dear?" Nick's mother said in a comforting voice."It was at the window. It did something to me. I'm bleeding. I don'twant to die."Nicks mother looked at the blood and the sobbing girl on the bed and satdown beside him, putting her hand on his. A sharp pain jolted through my leg. She also told me I was clumsy as hell. Blood swelled from the small wound, but I ignored it the best I could and kept running. A large gloomy looking mausoleum loomed in front of me. I dashed to it and tried to open on the door. I noticed the bolt too late. ‘Shit.’ I kicked the door hoping it would give. Instead I bashed my toes. I heard his footsteps drawing closer to where I was. I crawled to the back of the mausoleum and pressed my back to the wall. ‘Come.