I awoke hours later to my phone ringing. One glance at the caller id and I groaned, hitting the ignore button. Looking through my messages I rolled my...eyes.“Why the hell does she have to stick her nose in everybody’s business?” I wondered out loud.My “best friend” had called/texted several times already. She just had to know why I didn’t go home like I said I was. Where had I been when my husband was trying to contact me? Why I didn’t answer his calls? Why why why…. Why couldn’t she just leave. Her green skin was smooth, almost completely without blemish or wrinkles and her face that of a beautiful human woman with just a few exceptions besides her skin colour. Her slightly slanted eyes were red and seemed to be glowing in the dark just a little bit. She also had tusks, but unlike her fully orcish kin, her tusks were very small and only visible when she opened her mouth. Her fairly small, cute nose was just a little bit upturned but well within the limits of humans and those full lips. The sudden contrast made Ethan flinch away.He then blinked furiously for a while before taking a look at the door with some reticence. A shapely shadow obscured some of the light. When he looked up, he saw Nicole holding a key-chain. She then pushed the door wide open to reveal the form of the guard, an Igbo by the looks of him.What had at first looked like a bath of shiny and brilliant light revealed itself to be nothing more than a sickly yellowish light bulb. Nicole simply nodded and the. Mick had taken over his family's car dealership and Nigel went back to University and became a successful Lawyer. Our families were all very good friends and we caught up regularly. It was my turn to host a Barbeque this weekend.The barbeque on Sunday was great and it was wonderful to catch up with my oldest and closest friends and their families. We hadn't seen each other since before Christmas so we caught up with all of what was happening. Our k**s had all grown up together and they all got.