She listened harder than she ever had in her life for a hint that might spell the difference in protecting herself or being hurt. All that she could h...ar, however, was her own heart pounding away. She heard nothing more. She was still safe.Suddenly she became acutely aware that she was standing fully naked before a man for the first time in her life. On the one hand, she had a host of questions that she desperately wanted to ask of him. On the other, she felt a mad urge to bring herself to. We can't do anything here to help. What we can do is make sure that others are safe. We all have a part we can play. You just be the hero we know you can, and we'll do what we can as well." Be careful. Please. I want you to come back to me," said Aric looking into Brianna's eyes.Then he pulled her close, kissed her, and let her pull away from him as she and Cassie went looking for survivors in need of help. He watched her run off into the night until he couldn't see her form any more."We need. If, that last time I talked to ‘Jenova’, she would have said something like, ‘I lied to you about everything, I have no feelings for you, don’t call me, don’t come see me,’ and hung up, I would have been CRUSHED, but I would have, over time, been able to accept it and slowly recover from it. But right now, I have no definite solutions. I simply don’t know. If she told me the truth and said I really don’t love you and don’t want to talk to you anymore, I would have been hurt, but I would have. We should get inside before someone else comes to investigate the noise." Please, don't hurt me," she pleaded in a quavering voice, as apparently she hadn't heard me."I'm not going to hurt you, girl. We really need to move out of here though," I told her. I bent down, and helped her up. We slipped in the back door and got to my room without anyone seeing us. I didn't know how many people stayed here, or how many were in on a weekend.Once we were back in the room, I locked the door: unloaded the.