Brad was her brother and Jake may as well be her sibling too, yet she was falling in love with Derek. “As long as they play a good game, don’t get...hurt and don’t fight,” was the accepted family rule.Several rows up behind the Falcons bench, Dan sat between Tina and Susan. Alex’s eyes were already straining not sure where to look, to his mom’s deep cleavage and exposed legs on his right or Brenda’s equally revealing skin on his left.Dan soon received a text from Abby saying she’s been asked to. Staring at it, I couldn't help but wonder when the last time someone might have cleaned it, if ever.I blinked and awoke from my daze, having no clear idea how long I'd been standing in the aisle, staring at bags of flour on that dull, unchanging shelf.Every Friday, I walked into town to get things my Mother needed for the coming week. I guess I didn't mind too much, since it gave me a break from being in the field, picking vegetables out of the dirt all day."Is that everything, Miss?" the. "Much like all of you were able to detect other's emotional states, and just like each of you could detect whatever it is about Alex that drew you to him, I too felt Alex's power draw me in. Only in my case I never detected it as any kind of power," she explained, getting to work on the assembled mismatch of silverware. "Instead, I just knew that I could always go to him whenever I had a problem," she continued. "It started when I'd get scared of storms or monsters late at night. I'd never. The room I was staying was a single room with just a small kitchen and bathroom. The room was on the roof with no other rooms around, the remaining area on the roof was covered with ropes for drying the clothes.My landlord was the local guy in late-30s staying with his wife and kids on the ground floor of the apartment. He had some other buildings which he had given for rent and had a small shopping center just 3kms from the place. His wife was a housewife and used to occasionally help him in.