"It was Matty. We skipped afternoon classes and got reacquainted. Michael was also attending the same college and he and Matty were sharing an apartme...t. She asked me to join them for dinner that night and I did and soon after that Matty and I began keeping steady company. We were not going steady or anything like that, just spending a lot of time with each other - at least that is the way I was looking at it.About a week after getting reacquainted I was invited to dinner again and this time. " "Henry!" [I think you should be quiet, Henry.] This voice should have been identicalto the one from the black jikra, but she knew it was the golden one that hadhanded Henry the reeds. [Let's go to the lake.] The jikra began to edge towardsthe path and gestured with one of the tentacles for him to follow. He did,stopping at the edge of the clearing, and looked back, and Diane could swearhe looked scared, but she also thought she saw pity in his eyes. Then he enteredthe path and stalked off.. Lexi knocked on her father’s study door and walked in “can’t you at least try and talk to Tommy? Connor, all he’s been doing for months has been drinking and wenching, not like him at all” she heard Mercer say to her father, “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to interrupt, dinner will be served in a few minutes, hello Mercer, it’s nice to see you again” she said quietly. Mercer turned and smiled brightly at Lexi “maybe Tommy would listen to you lass” he said, Lexi smiled “I’m sorry Mercer, my rescuing,. “Please don’t go in there!”Rebecca's best friend, Elizabeth, fit the image of a 'popular girl' much easier than she did. Elizabeth had long blonde hair, golden tan skin, a cheerleader's body, and a friendly, if slighly bossy, personality.Lizzy looked back down the hill at her younger friend, “C’mon Becky! You just have to do it! Don’t you want to impress James?”Lizzy was well aware of her friend’s infatuation with the high school swim team’s own James Smithson. The athletic swimmer has gone out.