The thought was daunting! She nodded before turning on the heels of her boots and hurried away. * That evening, the air in the Gym was dense with t...e constant banging and clinking of weights. Sallie took in her surroundings, breathing in the distinct scent of the gym, the atmosphere thick with the odour of strong male musk and sweat, feeling heavy around her. She knew the majority of the soldiers around her, chatting silently in small clusters, some worked out alone with the rower machines. She still hadn’t told her parents she’d quit so most days after school she would head to the gym and get on the treadmill like she was currently. For one, she wanted to stay in shape since she wasn’t playing a sport anymore. And two, just getting up on the machine and running helped to clear her mind of all the bad things in her life. It was an escape, if just for an hour or so each day. The workout area was pretty well populated and Rachel recognized several people. It was the middle of the. "Surprise leading to panic. I laughed - nerves. Hercule Poirot would have had no trouble figuring it out.Louis came out of the kitchen in an apron."Louis made the rice," said Sunny."Hence the apron," said Louis.Sandy laughed. "Dad's not exactly at home in the kitchen. Sam says -" You can lead a horse to water, but you can't teach him to cook," said Louis, in a tone that indicated he had heard it way more times than it took for it to stop being funny.But he took it in good humor."Sam says I have. . duh!Being a hot August evening in New York, and with nothing to do, leave it to a boy to play games. Worse than that, the games Jimmy played were red hot, and he dragged me into them!Jimmy would go totally silent and let me nervously ask where he was. I didn't know what possessed me to feel I needed to know where my brother was at those moments, but the ensuing events proved that my instincts were well founded.The first few times, Jimmy would pop up next to me, seemingly brushing against my.