"Thanks, Doc. You heard what he said?" At the doctor's terse nod, Tom continued, "Is he delusional?"The doctor hesitated a moment before answering, "E...treme blood loss has been known to cause delusions. But, I have to tell you, word has been filtering up from the morgue. From what I've heard, no human being, not even one on fatally large doses of PCP, could have caused those injuries. I ... I'm having a hard time with the idea of vampires being real. Another possibility is that they had. I was only awake long enough to understand I was actually in a hospital though, then soon after I passed out again, despite the numbness in my body the pain was still intense, and breathing was pretty hard too. A couple months later, when school started, things seemed a lot different. People didn't have a clue of what happened over the summer, other than the 5 people directly involved. They had ended up cracking three ribs and although I wasn't paralyzed at all something just as bad did. I had made a real mistake by going to war when I did; it made the life of a teenager a real bore. How could I get excited by a football game when I had been in combat and responsible for the lives of a squad and then a platoon of men? The only thing that made it possible to stick with it was the way Brenda enjoyed her life as a teenager. I was so deeply in love with her that I could do anything in order to stay at her side.I did spend more and more subjective time in Atlanta as David Smith just. People from all walks of life. Today I saw my first Negroes. There is a girl in my class and a boy a couple of years ahead of me. They're brother and sister.I guess she's pretty smart. She was put in honors English and Chemistry with me. Well, not with me. In the same class I'm in. You know what I mean. She stood up in front of the class in English and told us about herself. They moved here from Texas. Her father was in the Navy there. I didn't even know they had boats in Texas. Live and learn..