We dated on and off for 6 years, got engaged, picked out k**s names, looked into places to live together when she got out of high school, the whole th...ng. Bout a week before she graduated and a year before our planned wedding, I found out that the last 3 years we where together, she had been cheating on me with a guy she had always told me was "just a friend". They had also been engaged at the same time we were. Needless to say, I was crushed. I had noone to really talk to about it. About the. In college.’ Linda scanned her memory of the girls she knew from the service. She had never done any doubles, and barely knew the other girls. ‘Not like that,’ Lisa corrected her. ‘Not with you. Instead of.’ Linda’s confusion must have been obvious in her face. ‘You remember the first time you woke up at home, and couldn’t remember what you did the night before?’ Linda nodded. ‘Ronald,’ she had answered the mirror. ‘He was…bad.’ ‘Yeah, he was pretty rough,’ Lisa had told her. ‘You thought you. As he stood and watched, she reached into a very small purple pouch and pulled out a handful of powder. It was a fine powder, silver in color. She brought her hand to her lips and blew the fine powder into the air.The powder turned to a fine dust, which spiraled around them and all over the room. Chadwick soon found himself standing in a mist of silver. The fine powder hung in the air within the room. It was all around them, as well as above. It filled the massive room from floor to ceiling.. It seemed to her they shared thoughts as soulmates might, and when Mike spoke of his past — his father's death when he was eight — she felt she had made contact with more than the macho poseur she had previously supposed him.And when he stood to go and pour drinks, she did too and went with him into the kitchen. Even now, she does not know how it happened, their coming together. Mike held her close, as if she were precious, his muscular arms reassuring. He made her feel safe, protected. She.