All the pleasure had just gone from my day and off the house I'd just bought. The water must be on tide change because there was clouds of sand swirli...g in small whirlpools and eddies all around the little rock island and there didn't seem to be any special direction for the water to run. I knew exactly how it felt, do I run or do I stay? Do I run away or do I face whatever is going to happen and... cope. I'm good at coping, if coping was an art I'd be a Dobell art prizewinner. It might be a. .you are right Selma. I...I...I really wish min..mine wereas bi...nice as yours," he stuttered blushing fiercely.As usual when a mixed group got together, the boys went their way andthe girls another. The guys played football while the girls got the foodready and gossiped. Harold didn't mind being with the girls, after all,what male wouldn't mind being the only one in the mist of scantily cladbeautiful women. He did catch himself looking over at the guys andwishing his body had the same. "Goddamn, Buck ... That's gonna hurt!" Tex chuckled."You can't ... No way! Come on, Cali." Bucky swallowed hard. "Look, boys. I'm sorry, okay? I'm real sorry. I was dumb and ... and I was foolish ... but..."There was a lot of talk as we ignored him, most of the fellas agreeing that fair was fair and the boy had made his own bed. He'd have made me pay up if I'd lost, we all knew that, so getting fucked by that roan of his made for a lot of justice.Of course, Bucky didn't see it that way and he. Work for the police department of a large city. That was my dream. Things didn’t quite work out the way I planned. You see, my parents forgot to tell me a crucial bit of information. Neither of them were exactly human. They were denizens of a secret society of intelligent nonhuman creatures who lived among everyday humanity, disguised as ordinary men and women. These creatures were everywhere. Demons. Angels. Monsters. Vampires. Werewolves. Ghouls. Zombies. Genetically enhanced Superhumans..