” I let out a breathy giggle. “I would’ve put it more… eloquently.” “So how would you have put it then?” he asked, leaning down to kiss...my lips again. “If you keep doing that my brain won’t function well enough to tell you.” He stopped his descent, his lips pausing just over mine. I could feel his hot breath on my mouth, jumbling up my words. “Um… I,” I stammered. I swallowed and tried to regain my composure. “I would’ve said something like an explosion of extreme heat and passion.” “Sounds. “Payback for that last kiss,” she grinned.“You don’t play fair,” I said.“Oh, I don’t?” her eyes flashed sassily.Okay, two can play this game. I hooked my thumbs in the waistband of my pajama bottoms, staring into her eyes, and I bent, pulling them down to my feet. Still looking at her face, I stood up. I was wearing nothing but blue briefs. She likes blue. Her favorite color.I kept watching her face, pulled my jeans up, filled my pockets, pulled a lightweight shirt over my head.“Still like your. And we got out of the van and were sitting by the creek when we saw them," Lani said."Them? Who's them?" The other girl asked, frowning in confusion, not having any idea where this conversation was going, or how she herself was involved in what Brad and Lani had done the day before."A couple - a young boy and a girl - they were really getting it on and we watched them!" Lani cried."They were fucking?" Dina asked, beginning to grow uncomfortable with the turn the conversation had taken."Well,. No one is going to hurt me anymore. In this moment, I feel my left foot being lifted. Someone's strong hands are holding it. They clasp around it and push. At first, I am unable to understand what's going on. The pain overwhelms me. I feel bone fragments moving, grating against each other. I scream. The torture stops immediately. My foot is on fire. I open my eyes. A man is scolding one of the nurses. She blushes. A mask is placed on my face, and I slowly drift into unconsciousness. The torture.