I smiled at him and swung my legs over the side of the bed and kind of glided to my feet. I held out my hands and he came up to me. He had both of my ...ands in his and he leaned back and looked at me. I could feel the adoration from him as well as see it in his eyes. I closed my eyes and just basked in it. I felt him pull closer to me and then his arms were wrapped around me. Oh, God. So safe. I could stay like this forever. I lay my head on his chest.Then he was pulling my head back from his. ...I think I need a new pair of panties!!" Eriana burst out laughing and quickly turned to Shiloh's friend. Without saying the too personal information, she quietly said, "Jane has a crush on your friend! Maybe we should all go out tonight, together." Also implying that her and Brad should hang out later. Brad agreed and made plans with Eriana to go out. While Shiloh still had a hold of Jane's arm, Jane let him know. "Umm, I think they just made plans for us to double date somewhere. I looked at Marta."Parent sssss?" Yes Mel, Marta and I are married. Marta is your new step mother."I was in shock. This was totally unexpected. A tear ran down my cheek.Then Marta stood up and walked to face me. I rose as well. She wrappedher arms around me and gave me a hug; a real hug from a real person. Ihugged her back. Neither of us spoke. But I felt her warmth; I feltwhat I thought was her affection, which was something I had longed forever since mother was killed.Finally breaking. They looked alien, pale white and cold as a corpse. They should have been hot and flushed from walking in the sun. They should have been a lot of other things. Nothing was the way it should have been. But she took her alien hand and knocked on the door.“Devin, you can’t be here-.” He saw her, with a queer vacant look in her eyes, and he saw the gun, “Devin, Devin, what are you doing?”“Don’t say my name, everybody says my name so much. I don’t like it anymore.”“Oh ... okay.”“I’m not coming in,.