Always seeming stationary, guiding me, and leading me on. This heart pounds within my chest, pumping fire around this foreign carriage, my throat suck...ng huge lungfuls of air to feed the powerhouse barely under my control. The features of the forest floor picked out in an eerie monochrome, your footprints as well as the smell of your sweat and musk pulling me forwards. A fallen tree lies across my path; I leap across it, clearing the upturned branches easily. This beautiful machine that I am. It took me about an hour to do as much winterizing as I knew how to do.I was back on the barge by noon Christmas day. It was just another day to me. I hated that about myself. I had obviously lost my faith in everything. Maybe not everything but everything in which the average person put their faith.I was surprised that the barge was empty at noon on Christmas day. Then I guessed that Wilson had gone to visit his daughter. I wondered it he would take Mel, who was most likely younger than. " Max said she was his niece you idiot!" Chuck shouted. "She's probablyalready called the cops!"Brandi's eyes narrowed at the mention of Max, the manager of the bigparts store in LA they had made delivery at. So Arnie's truck had beentargeted.Moving to the back of the two trucks Chuck barked, "Get your asses ingear! We gotta get the load transferred and get out of here." Take him into the office and tie him up," he told the two men holdingArnie. "Then get out here and help. We'll deal with him. I tried not to make it to obvious that I was looking at them incase she looked out of the window and saw me. when I had finished mowing the lawn, I knocked on the door and went in, and gave her a shout. Karen shouted 'Im in the kitchen, come on thro'.I went thro to the kitchen and there she was, all dressed up as she had been out. she looked as stunning as ever. she was wearing a nice tight skirt, tights or stockings and blouse. She offered to make me a cup of tea and as she had her back to me.