Kayla was hard put to keep a grin off her face as she noted the nurses' reaction. Kayla and Jeff chatted with the four for a few minutes before Jeff t...rned to Grigsby, "I have orders to take the bodies with us. Suppose your people could give mine a hand out there? It's pretty gruesome, but it needs to be done if we have a chance of keeping this quiet. I suspect the folks on down the street have called the police about a war going on out here, although there are probably a lot of trees down that. The desire would build and they’d make love again. It wasn’t until a bit before dawn that they fell asleep and didn’t wake until mid-morning. x-x-x-x ‘So, are you and Jake official yet?’ Maddy asked. She and Molly were once again cleaning the debris from another jewelry night. ‘I guess,’ said Molly, setting down a glass. ‘I haven’t asked. It seems kind of…needy.’ ‘Just because you want to know something, doesn’t mean it’s needy.’ Maddy ran a hand through her curly red hair as she surveyed the. So, would you like to go out next Saturday?’ She looked at me somewhat sadly. ‘I’m sorry Joey, but I’m already going out with friends.’ ‘Oh, ok, sorry I asked.’ ‘No, let me explain. Joel and Peter from school gave me four tickets to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game for graduation. I thought about asking you to go but you told me you didn’t like sports. So I asked Joel and Peter to go since they gave me the tickets. We’re just friends, I want you to know that. I’ve known them for years.’ ‘Who’s. ” “Yeah,” I said. “What else have I got to do?” I went to bed drowning in self-pity that night, but by the time I woke up, I had mostly turned myself around. It was my birthday and I decided that I was going to celebrate. I showered and shaved, and pulled on an outfit Liz had picked out for me. I checked the mirror and grinned. I looked sharp. “Look out world. It’s my fucking birthday.” I ate a big breakfast at the Diner; french toast, waf-.