With a roar of pain and rage, it turned to face the attackers. The crossbows twanged and two more bolts buried themselves in its chest. Quickly two mo...e impaled themselves in its neck. At the same time, the women clawed the pistols from their holsters and began firing at it. The creature raced toward them and the distance rapidly diminished as it pounded for them. Kathy took aim at one of its legs and fired almost cutting it in half. The leg folded and as its body crashed to the ground, Suzie. Before Aaron could answer Mike held his hand up. “Actually I don’t want to know,” Aaron laughed.Mike and Aaron came back with three beers for the guys and three larges glasses of wine for the girls. The girls chatted for a bit before it was time to start the game.The dining room table was quite large so it had been set up as a poke table for the evening in the large open plan ground floor, there was a direct sight to the main lounge area and also the kitchen from the dining table. The players. I did not tell my Mom goodbye. Yep, I will be punished. Hopefully without Mrs. Donna or Amy watching.I go downstairs to get me something to eat and see Mom cooking dinner. Damn, Saturday. Mom is not working today."You stayed up past noon!" My Mom yells. "I knew it. You stayed up all night. What were you doing all night?"I knew I couldn't lie and get out of it. "Masturbating," I softly say."And what did I tell you not to do last night?" "Not to touch myself." All right. You punishment is right. I dump out my whole fucking shoe box of pain and confusion for them and while I feel a little better now I am exposed and have no place to hide it. If they are horrified they are hiding their expression very well. “I like this Delauter guy, he’s a workaholic honestly but so am I,” Hunter explains and I shrug,” Don’t blow me off, listen boy, he expected everyone to group up and bond because it’s what good people do and he’s a good person. Hell I didn’t know Sydney went to homecoming till three.