How could I have forgotten about the box! "Room 135 Ma'am. Take the elevator to the second floor and it's down on your right." The clerk's words jerke... me out of my stupor."Thank you." I managed to mutter, before grabbing my key card and the box and making my way quickly to my room. Once inside the small, yet tidy, room...I dropped my belongings on the bed and went to phone you and let you know I had made it to the hotel okay."Hello?" You answered in a deep husky voice."Brian? This is Shayna. I. "We both know that whoever loses willeventually try to get you back. And we know that you won't refuse him."I opened my mouth to protest, but he cut me off."Don't deny it. The only way to solve this is to put one of uspermanently out of the picture, out of reach of temptation, as it were.We'll use the statue one last time and then get rid of it, sell it oneBay perhaps. Then that will be that." That's completely mad," I said."It's what we've decided," said Sam.Then they left.The next two. “Is it bad?”She cut her eyes away for a moment. “Jordan Conner.”Oh, dammit, I thought. A cheeleader on the junior squad, Jordan was ferociously agressive. She bowled over anyone in her way, whether she liked you or not. She and Brianna had a history of runins in 9th and 10th grades. I thought things had mellowed between them since starting in the fall.“What about her?” I asked warily.“Well, she and I, uh...”I watched her turn bright red. “You didn’t!” I gasped.She watched me get all big-eyed. When Rob heard about what I'd said to Lupe, and what I'd agreed to, he did all my laughing for me. Theresa surprised me when she offered her opinion that Anita and I were just not meant to be. She pointed out that she and Rob seldom fought, or even so much as argued with each other. Rob and I both laughed at her ridiculous claim. For her to make that particular claim, she had to be totally oblivious to what was being said, or what was going on around her. Maybe that was the answer, perhaps she.