!" James turned around and looked at his mother, "I'll go andchange..." He paused. "My clothes?" he looked at his mother. "Myclothes. I thought that....." They're your clothes and there is no need for you to change." Hismother paused and smiled. "Why do you think the skirt and top fit you sowell?" she chuckled, "Louise saw what you're wearing in a photograph onyour laptop. She knew that you've been wearing her clothes. She spoke tome and so she thought it would be nice if you had some women's. "Some little midget boy," Joe taunted."She's too young to be dating," her father stubbornly maintained."Daddy, she's almost 15. I was dating when I was her age. Hell, I was dating years before I was her age." That's cause you got big boobs," Steve sneered. He didn't dare say 'tits' around their father."Up yours!" Keri answered."Jody ain't got no boobs," he laughed. "Nobody'd want to date her." You shut your yap, boy!" her father said, slapping the table. "All of you shut up and eat."After. You have fought well. Fought very well indeed. Now you need to build back your energies before it is time for you to return to the fray." The war... Charis and Ahlenya, Mike and..." His lips were stiff, his tongue swollen behind his clenched teeth. He wasn't sure that the words were even spoken aloud."Your friends are all here where it is safe. Nothing more is going to happen to them," the voice soothed, and he let the darkness reclaim him.The next time he awoke he felt wonderfully rested. His. ‘Damn’ he thinks ‘half a mile more and I’d of been home.’ Knowing he was this close to home he decides to brave the storm and walk the last half mile home, leaving the truck where it sits until the weather breaks. Reaching around into the sleeper he pulls out his heavy coat and gloves and prepares for his walk home. God be willing his sweet wife wouldn’t have to spend another Christmas alone. He finds it hard to see in the storms swirling forces, as the wind bites at his exposed skin. He’s.