The attack was always the same. The cannons fired once at five hundred meters, leaving two trails of scorched earth. The men split in half and charged...down the smoking paths, giving chase.The first cannon fired again. The roar of the weapon rang in Gavril's ear as he tensed for the next cannon."Son of a scabby whore!" a faraway voice cried out. "Fuckin' idiots!" Stop the cannon before you kill the stupid human," Gavril called out. "Re-tag your target and pursue. Move!" Got'em on scope!" Jojo. I just hoped that my man wouldn't, that's all." "B-b-b-but, I can explai ..." I stammered. Soapy bath water splashed everywhere as Veronica's hand shot from under the water giving me the 'stop' sign with her palm. "I don't want to hear it." she hissed, "Save your fucking lame ass excuses for someone else Howdy! Just get out! Leave me the fuck alone." "N O W G E T O U T!" My head dropped in shame. I stood there emotionally reduced to rubble, completely humiliated. There simply was no defending. "I ask again, Alvin; what in hell's going on?"Alvin threw his hands up as if he was under arrest. "It was all Mueller's idea. He looked up the bylaws and showed us where any three members could call a special meeting. He said that he already had Lambert going along. He threatened to canvass the others. Jim and I decided to appease him before he got things stirred up any further. He insisted that you be left out, and we went along. Al Crossman thought it was the right way to go." Alvin, it's. Everything seemed so normal and like nothing had happened between me and him, I went back up to my room and sat on my bed and listened to my mum leave to go shopping. I heard my father come upstairs and go and get undressed in his room, but on the way to the bathroom he stopped at my door and gestured me to come with him, so I followed him to the bathroom where he started to undress me, I got in the shower with him and we washed each-other, caressing each-others bodies with the soapy sponge and.