“But I’m still scared.”Rolling her into his arms, Jeff kissed her face and held her tight. “You are so amazing, Amy. But we have to face it; w...’re basically siblings. We’re going to spend the rest of our lives together, so don’t get hung up on things we can’t change. Be who you want. Love who you want. And I’ll still be right here for you anytime you need me.”“Oh, that’s so sweet,” Lori cooed from the other bed.“I told you and Shelly the same thing, goofball,” Jeff replied to her with a. Above the sound of the fire, he could just make out the "whup, whup, whup" of a helicopter's rotors. He raised a hand to shield his eyes and automatically thought it was Police or Rescue. And they had seen them.Taking deep lungfuls of air before handing his mask back to the older girl for her and her sister to use, he held them to him as he began to edge back towards the door. There was a sudden loud cracking sound and he looked up as the ceiling gave way and burning debris began to fall on and. The knock came at 6:00. Standing at the door was Kshitiz, with a big smile on his fat face.“Well Kashish, have you got my money?” Kshitiz asked.“I’ve got most of it, but I couldn’t get all of it.” I said.“I don’t take instalments Kashish, once a month I expect Rs 5,000, not Rs 3000 today and Rs 2000 next week. We’re over half way to having your next month’s rent due, and with the problems you’re having this month I can only assume things will be like this or worse e next month, so I’m afraid. " You must think that I would approve of such knowledge for you to admit it openly." Gramma, if I was, for lack of a better term, a normal teen girl, I'd be pestering you to let me go to the Mall and hang out ... maybe movies, you know, DARK, me, and some random guy ... this is me, though, I don't think I'm normal, not in that sense. And I don't WANT to go to the mall and I don't want to be in the dark with some random guy who doesn't have a vocabulary and doesn't like the good music and ....