I nodded to Laura and dragged my pack toward the shaman's hut. It was located near the center of the Village in the most prominent area. As I was goin... I saw some of the village women exiting their huts to see what was going on. Some smiled brightly at me. Shanor, one of the girls my age, came running out to see me. I was surprised when she threw her arms around me crying."Mother said you where dead, that the shaman had seen to your death. She said we would never see you again."I hugged her. Butthen seeing Katie that afternoon just "being" a little girl had been sosweet.. There was no play acting or pretence, that had been a little girlwith her. Then this evening there was the other side to Katie. The biggirl, so elegant in a teen girl way. She clearly enjoyed most of theevening but Caroline was being a pain. Period perhaps? Recalling Carolinesteasing about the boy looking at her and whether she liked boys or girls?There really was so little she really knew about her but one way or. Jack made the most stupid promise ever to me in an effort to be caring. When he helped out Sara and I took it the wrong way, he didn't try to win me back because of that promise. Knowing the way she feels about Jack, I know what it took for her to come over to my house and prove to me how stupid I was. I still don't know how she was able to get it through my thick head without me trying to prove how right I was to her and Jack and everyone else. And then I almost lost him again when I told him. I had a terrible day at work and couldn’t wait to get home. My boss was a real jerk to me as usual so I just wanted to eat and go to bed. I pulled in my driveway and entered through the back door, again noticing the stains that appeared on my window. I made a mental note to clean that up later, went in the house and made a quick dinner and sat down for some mind numbing TV. At ten o’clock I turned everything off and went to the bathroom to shower. I thought about that hot delivery boy that.