I took a deep breath, slowly letting the air escape through my nostrils trying to calm myself down.However, when the door opened it wasn’t Ilse as I...had expected... Instead, there stood a blonde woman in front of me who I didn’t know, having a curious look on her face. As she looked me over her look turned from curious anticipation into one of disgust, as she seemed to recognize me somehow.“Could I talk to Ilse please?” I carefully started to say, “I want to apologize to her. I really messed. .."Giggle. "It is my expectation that you will be much more than just good. But Kara's little world is sort of caving in. I think that's why she was here today."Jo told me sad stories about Kara."You know," I said, "we hung out with that bunch of nuts in Alabama. You heard the stories from Tina and Cindy and Nikki. But their moms had NOTHING. Kara's dad is rolling in it, and you tell me Kara..." Just a different facet of the same problem, baby," she said. "He doesn't seem to want to be a. He just wanted ice water, but I knew those ice cubes wouldn’t stay in the glass. Not with Ray. We kissed hungrily, nibbling on the other’s lips and occasionally our tongues dancing together. I felt as if he had never been gone, but the growing ache inside of me reminded me how long we had been apart. “Ray,” I began. “No, Annie, no words. No regrets. Just feel. Just me and you. Together again the way it should be.” I took his mouth again. His hands. One girl, was unrecognizable, and if she?? He didn’t have to finish that sentence she already knew the poor soul had died, literally at the hands of Ivan. She could even tell Jason regretted telling her.Time passed and Natalia had time to relax once her wounds were fully healed. The doctor was right; she did not scar on her chest at all. She dared look at her back and regrets looking at the angry criss cross marks. She cried many tears, but more out of remembering how they came to be. What.