I was walking along with his friends and they were making crazy comments to me like "Dwayne is going to fuck the shit out of your wife!" and "I can't ...elieve your are giving your beautiful wife to a stranger, if she was mine I would keep her for myself."When we got to the room, Amie pulled beers out of the cooler and handed them out to our guests. There was a moment of awkward silence but only for a moment. "Come on lover," Amie cooed to Dwayne "Let's get you out your clothes. I want to see. She asked if there was another girl, because the comment about ‘the body’ confused her. Something didn’t add up. Echo wasn’t ‘the body’. She’d been badly hurt, but she hadn’t been killed. Just asleep for a while.Sweet eyes glossed over as an emptiness replaced the modicum of hope she’d salvaged. She rubbed the back of her neck, and did the same to her throat, but gently, though she wasn’t sure why she needed to be gentle. She was intact. The worst of her aches and pains lay within her. Boys waslike such a totally interesting subject. Since Lori, Roni, and Janeyenjoyed talking about boys as much as the rest of us girls did, theyall jumped right into our continuing discussion.Soon, I was convinced that Fleur had forgotten about all that stupidnonsense about being a man transformed into a woman. No one that hadany of those ideas Fleur had been recently expressing about men couldpossibly believe she was a man. In fact, I planned on trying some ofthe more interesting things she'd. "That's a good idea. Thanks, and sorry for yelling at you, but I just had to vent." That's alright, I'm just glad you're OK." Yeah, but next time you have a bright idea on how to keep me safe, could you run it by me first?" It was kind of a last minute decision," she tried to defend herself."Yeah, if only there was some way you could reach out and communicate with someone." She laughed with me, "Yeah, just imagine what a simple life we could live if only we had a magical ability like that."Just.