"Good afternoon," said the man. "My name is Andrew Snark and this is my wife,Maria. We are in your area demonstrating a revolutionary new slimming bel..., thoughI can see that you wouldn't need one," he smirked and gave a hearty laugh."I'm sorry but my parents are away." She looked down and saw the raincoat hadopened at her waist and that was what the man had meant. She went to close thedoor."Just a minute, young lady. I want to show you something." He whipped open a smallattache case. "This is. "You followed me because I asked you to, you've already saved my life more than once and you just kept us from being raped." The worship continued to shine in her eyes. "In just over a week you've done more for me than anyone since my step-mother. Who cares if you made mistakes? You can't expect to be perfect." On my world I had to be perfect. I was designed to be perfect." Designed? You mean trained." It's the same thing. But now I'm not, I'm damaged." You talk about yourself like a piece of. With forgiveness please. I am re-posting all the stories in my two long series, Felicity and Peers. Both have been edited and the Felicity stories have been placed in order. Peers has been edited to make it less rambling and to clear up some parts but it is essentially the same. The Felicity stories all started out as stand alone stories. Some are short and some are very long. Some begin someplace other than Felicity but end up there. Some of those ended up there after they were originally. But herfrown turned to a smile and she said, "Tavi, I wannathank you for defending me. That was very kind ofyou."Tavi replied, "Your welcome Mrs. Poppink. I only didfor you what I thought you would do for me, you're avery kind person, Mrs. Poppink."She paused for a moment and said, "Did you help mebecause you're an orphan?"Tavi seemed somewhat surprised but he replied, "Wellthat is sort of the reason. I am orphaned, but it'snot like I want you, or don't want you, to adopt me.It's just... you.