We spend the time in a tense silence, wondering what the others are going to do and to whom. I preferred to remain silent about it, but always on guard. Cathy has remained laying on my lap as we ate, occassionally getting up to drink some of her soda. Jaunita(Gloria) kept on sending telepathic messages to me every so often, which I tend to ignore. It was a peaceful quiet lunch at best, something that the Shortfellows don't do. Towards the end of our meal, I gather a couple of bags around us to put the garbage in. Debbie and Rachel follow my lead and stuff their empties into the bag before leaning against me and start to nap lightly. With 2 lunches in their little bellies, they should be quiet for a long while. Grace does me the favor of taking the bag from me and handing it to the others to keep the area clean. Kevin gathers the garbage in his area, as does John, stuffing it in the bag. Since no one wanted to take it to the can just a couple of hundred yards by the entrance, it is placed by the side of the encampment, away from everyone's veiw for now. It least for the time being, it was quiet. "Gutich, why is it that you're the one that has to fight for everyone?", Raul asks out of stupidity more than anything else, and thus ruining the splender of all things quiet, "No body asked you to fight for us, especially my battles." I just turned to him slowly, trying not to wake up the girls as I do. "Alrigh then. Remember that when your mind goes through the memories of you fighting Randal and you were on the loosing end. And while you're at it, remember how you were so chicken shit about dying, or more like getting killed by him, and what would have happened if I did not stepped in to continue on for you." "While you're at it, remember how you wanted to jump out my bedroom window when you were visiting me, and he showed up unnannounced at my place.", Cathy added. "I am glad that he was there, though not to save me, but to put an end to all the fights I was in with Todd.", Kevin said. "Kevin has the right idea. I did not saved anyone, but rather put an end to the fighting that was going on. Now if you think that I was there to save your ass, Raul, then think about how many times I have saved your ass and how many favors that you owe me for. Think otherwise that I only put an end to the fighting, then I did not save your ass, and that you don't owe me any favors. Its that simple.", I tell him. He sits there staring at me for the moment. "As far as I know, no one here owes me anything except for a few barrowed dollars here and there, of which I do not care about.", I then added. "But there are many here who's lives you have saved...", Jaunita stated to herself, with Denise argeeing with her. "I heard that Juanita.", I tell her, "Look. Understand this; if everyone who's life I saved either here or at work as a lifeguard were to owe me, they would have to pay me a debt on a daily basis of an unimaginable price because those are days that they are having that they would not have if it were not for my interaction. For every girl I saved, that would be easy- to be part of my harem, to abide by my wishes as I please, even sexual ones." They all look at me, as if I was crazy, but I continue, "The guys are little harder to figure out. Slaves to do my bidding, but what? An army? Personal Guards? Ha! They could not save themselves... something that separates the boy from the men in many cultures. So, what to do with you guys?" "I am nobody's slave...", Raul started to say, "Nor will I follow any of your orders." "Perhaps Raul, you should rethink that. As Shortfellow President, you are obliged to me.", I answer him. "You only got the seat of power because Ms Jastrey gave it to you.", he complained. "It was the Majixtrate and the Elders that gave me the position, since it seems that Denise fucked her way into winning the popular vote.", I tell him. "I did not!", Denise complains back. "Then explain how you got 100% of the male vote, Denise.", I tell her, "And yet the only 1 female to vote against you was Jaunita(Gloria)" "Just because I'm popular does not give you the right to call me a whore.", Denise added. "If we were to go into our sexual track record, as to who went to bed with the most people, Denise, you would win. Furthermore, the reasons as to why you went into bed with them, would be an argument you would lose. But speaking for myself, I've only had sex with 2 girls here that we all know. And as for the reasons why I did was because I loved them when I did, promising everything within my powers and abilities to keep them happy....", I started to explain. I take a deep sigh before continueing, "I don't need to explain myself to anyone, but if I had to, at least I can say is that I tried. And now I have been fulfilling the responsibility of being a father to my two girls, even though their mother and I no longer love each other like we used too, at least I still do enough to go do the right thing." "Gutich, shut up.", Raul says. "Go fuck yourself, Raul.", I tell him in return. "No, Fernando is right.", Jaunita(Gloria) says, "He does not have to prove anything to anyone. Especially to us." "He has plenty to prove to me.", Raul stated to himself. "Ever the Doubting-Thomas, aren't you.", I tell him. "All this shit about powers and abilities, and mumbo-jumbo witch craft, I swear. Everything you have done can be explained in one way or another, most of it through some form of technological trickery.", Raul stated. "Then explain the others. John, with medical proof of having a iron in his skeletal system, as with me having silver in my bones too and in my nerves. Kevin with his super strength and agility that belies his size. Or Denise and Jaunita(Gloria) having some sort of empathic ability on sensing how others around them feel? You know Raul, just because you may not believe in the supernatural or in abilities beyond what normal people may have does not mean that they exist. Nobody is that lucky...", I tell him. "I worked hard to get my my skills and abilities...", he started to say. "I'm not denieing that you have.", I tell him. "You still have to prove a lot to me.", Raul says. I adjust myself against the side of the lifeguard chair, pretending to stretch and let out a yawn, while trying to concentrate onto his brain frequencies and pattern. "Fernando- don't!", Jaunita(Gloria) says out loud. "Don't... what?", I ask as I turn to her. "You know what you were trying to do...", she stated. "Juanita, I swear...", I said to myself. "Well, you know better to try that with me around.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "And if I did, you would not be able to stop me.", I tell her. "You sure about that?", Jauntia(Gloria) asked, almost challenging. I stared at her, focusing in onto her mind, seeing that she had prepared herself in defense of an onslaught of psionic engery which may overwhelm her. But for every defense, there is a weakness, and in hers to be in the same frequencies and patterns as in my mind, I can easily overide though defenses with just a simple thought. In her mind, she stands there defiant as I stand in front of the fortress of her mind. With my mental hand, I place it upon the wall and phase it through it, reaching within and pulling her out by her neck. I stand her in front of me, "Yes I'm sure", I tell her inside her mind. She does not answer. Reaching out within the universe of the minds, I latch onto Raul's brain frequencies and patterns, not to become one with them but to supercede them inside his own head. I sit back against the lifeguard chair as I slowly gain control of his motor cortex after a bit of a fight with his conscious, which has to be turned off for the moment. He gets up and turns to walk to where the waves breaks against the sands, stopping there momentarily. Juanita(Gloria) reaches over and grabs me by the shoulder and pushes hard against me. My concentration upon Raul breaks as I shift my attention from him to her. I just stare at her before turning to Raul to see what he was doing there. He continued to stand there at the breaks of the waves against the sands of the beach. "Now you go get him.", I tell her angrily. "You have no right in doing that.", Jaunita(Gloria) says to me. "I can do anything that is needed at the time, and that asshole needed a learn a lesson.", I tell her. "A lesson on what? That we are more powerful then he is? That we should be in control, to lead, to rule?!!", Jaunita(Gloria) argues. "He needs to learn that there are certain forces exist whether or not he wants to believe in them.", I tell her. Denise makes her way towards us as we quietly argue between ourselves, on all 4. "That was not nice Gutich.", she says. "Not you too.", I tell her. "No, I'm just saying that that was not nice. It may have been necessary, but it should have been left between the two of you, someplace else, alone.", Denise stated. "It should not have been done in the first place.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Tell me why.", I tell her. "Its goes against morals.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Who's morals.", I tell her. "The Book of Spells says it does.", The other Jaunita says. We all turn to face her. "Well, it does.", she continues, " It says, 'One who deals with white magic must never use them for gains or personal motives.'" "I don't delve in 'White Magic.'", I tell her. "Not from where I see it.", Jaunita says. "I said- I don't deal in White Magic...", I tell her sternly. "If you don't deal in White Magic, then you must deal... in... Black... Magic...", she started to say, but hestitating as she reached her conclusion. "I don't deal in Black Magic either.", I tell her. She stays where she was seated, staring at me as if she caught me in some lie. I turn back to face Raul who was still at the edge where the ocean and sands meets. "Somebody go slap in the idiot on him back of his neck...", I tell everyone, but without looking at them. Kevin and John head out to see if Raul was OK. "If you don't delve in the mystic arts, then explain why you have a protective Auora around you.", Jaunita demands. "It was placed there by somebody else.", I tell her. "Who.", Jaunita demanded. "My grandmother.", I tell her. "What about them?, as she points to Debbie and Rachel. "I did.", I tell her. "Now, you say that you don't deal with magic, but yet you put a protective spell on them. If that is not a lie, I don't know what is.", Juanita explains sternly. I put my hands together and close my eyes with a sigh. Between my hands, a light begins to shine. As I open them, a ball of light hovers between them. Putting it into my right hand, I give it a slight spin and balance it on my finger. "You know what this is... right?", I tell her. All but Jaunita and Denise stare at it in awe. "Yes, I know...", she says. "Then shut up.", I interupted her. "But...", she started to say. "I said for you to shut up.", I tell her. "You cant make me shut up.", Jaunita stated defiantly. "Since you're such a good student of the mystic arts, then you should know better as a woman to cross the path of a man, especially who is more powerful than you are.", I warn her. "Like what are you going to do to me?", Jaunita stated. "I don't need to do anything. But like I said... know your place- woman.", I tell her sternly. "This is 20th Century America, I can do and say anything I want.", Jaunita stated trying to prove some stupid point. I close my hand into a fist, reclaiming the ball of engery into it with my eyes closed and a sigh. Around us, the winds being to gust up in a circular pattern. "I really do not need to prove anything to anyone, Jaunita. Just don't challenge me, for you might find out that I am too much to handle.", I tell her as I stare at her. Slowly the winds die down. "Something tells me that you rigged the Shortfellow vote.", Denise suddenly stated. I quickly turn to her, "I did not want the position. And you screwed every male member here to get their votes. Furthermore you coerced the girls into giving up their votes for you. You won Denise... But you cant stand that the Shortfellow Elders did not wanted you in power and put me in your place, for a price. A price I would not pay." "What was that price, daddy?", Rachel asked silently. I slowly turned to her, giving her a quick hug before answering, "They wanted me to stop going out with Catherine..." "But, you still go out with her...", Rachel stated. "So we are. A leader must know when to go against the wishes of his followers and do what is best for them...", I started to explain. "I see.", Rachel replied. "No one should be able to control anyone else, especially in matters of who's dating who.", Cathy added. "You did not had to explain it to her like that...", I tell her. "Its OK, I already knew that.", Rachel said. "I still say that you somehow rigged the vote.", Denise complained. "Look, I don't care. Believe in what you want to believe in, OK? Shit, I swear", I almost yelled at Denise. "At least he did what he thought was best for us.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Eh,... sure I did.", I stated to myself. "I knew it!", Denise stated. "Listen Bitch- at least you got your diploma on time like everyone else!", I tell her, "Too fucking bad that everyone failed the English Regents and have to take it over!" "Everyone except for you... How you managed that one...", she stated. "You know how I passed. Its not my fault you did not use your memory to recall every book you read to answer the essay question. No- you just used Hamlet because it was the last book you read in English 8, like everyone else, and failed- like everyone else.", I held back from yelling at her. Cathy laughs for a second before making her statement, "Yeah, and you got stuck in English 7, where you read Frankenstien, the perfect book for the essay question." "You still need to state second reference.", I said. "And what book was that?", Jaunita asked. "That is not of your concern.", I tell her. "Ever heard of Jonathan Livingston Seagull?", Cathy asks. "What? How?", Jaunita asks. "You have to read it. At least you got one more year to do it in.", I tell her. Jaunita just stays there staring at me. I sit back and try to not pay attention to her. "Its still not right what you did." Jaunita(Gloria) restarts getting on my case. Denise follows with a "Yeah!" For a moment, everyone turns to Denise and stare at her. "Its bad enough that some of us can read minds here, Guitch.", Jaunita(Gloria) started to explain, "But we who can project thoughts into others must never do so unless its to save another's life." "Don't give me that Morality Bull Crap, Jaunita.", I tell her. "For the past 3 years, I did everything I could to keep the peace, and yet when I try to do something to make myself happy, damn I swear... everyone has to interfere while having conniptions about what I want to have. Is that fair?" "Having what you wanted was never an issue...", Jaunita broke in before the others. "Oh really? What about me not being able to go out with Cathy here? Or Evadney? Or Cynthia? Or just about any other girl in the school? Then again, who's fault was it that I am not allowed to go with any girls in the school? Huh? I swear- sometimes all I want is a little pussy, and though I could, I'm not buying it for it should be as free as the air I breathe and the water I drink.", I explain to them outloud. "Eh... you're just going out with me for just the sex?", Cathy asks sternly as she got off me. "Yeah... I'm just like any other guy, and got feelings and needs too you know. I'll do what I have to do to insure that I have a decent relationship with somebody I care about to be that close with...", I try to answer her. "Nice Save..." Jaunita(Gloria) says out loud to herself. "You still got us...", Rachel stated quietly. "Yeah..."Debbie followed. "There are certain things that I can not ever have with either of you two that I can with other girls...", I quietly said to myself. "What?" Juanita says out loud, "You're having sex with these two little girls?" I just turn to face her, anger had set the lights on in my eyes to be burning bright red, "You better rephrase that...", I tell her in an evil tone. "Look, it sounded like you said you have had sex with them...", Juanita started to explain herself. I held my hand up to her face as a sign to shut up, to which she complies. "This is a problem with you sexually active females... everything that is said must be misconscrewed into being sexual. No- these are my daughters for one, and sex is not and will never be an option with me and them. Two: Once that sex switch is turned on in you ladies, it seems that it can never be turned off. In Rachel's case, Like Cathy's, it was turned on by force through somebody else's actions at a very young age. So since then, she has been turned on and cant be turned off, and she's been sexually active since- some of it by her own choosing. Three: Debbie's sexual switch has not been turned on yet, but its only a matter of time when it will, and I hope it will be by her choice and not forced upon her. Now, with that explained, you tell me...", I explain sternly at her. She can only stare at me with her jaw slightly dropped. "Don't give me that look. Denise here is only a couple years older than Rachel, and she too is sexually active. You have been sexually active for quite some time yourself, and you're just a couple years older than Denise. So Rachel having carnal knowledge at her age is not so unusual, especially within this group of over active sexual fems.", I tell her. "But she's only a child...", Jaunita started to say. "Technically, Denise started to have sex when she entered Tech; but if she wasn't skipped in so many grades and yet was still to start her sexual activities, she would be fucking since the third grade...", I explained further. "But that's Denise!", Jaunita blurted out. "HEY! I'M NOT THE NIGGER BITCH SLUT AROUND HERE!", Denise yells at her. "Watch your mouth, youngin!", Jaunita(Gloria) stated loudly at her. Denise backs down from any challenge she was going to give to Jaunita, and the group remains silently for the monent. I start to quietly laugh to myself. Rachel giggles her herself, seeing the joke in all this that I see. Debbie sits there trying to figure it out, as Cathy leans over to my ear and whispers, "That's Not Funny..." "What?!!", Denise blurts out loud. "Never mind Denise.", I tell her. During this time, The guys seemed to have walked away from the group, which for me is just fine. Raul can be one of the greatest friend in the world, but he can be so grating at times that I just want him to simply not exist. At least for now, he will be gone. "Never mind what?", Denise started with anger in her tone of voice, "If you're laughing at me, I want to know why!" "I swear Denise. And you say I kill the fun at times.", I tell her. "He was laughing at how you guys treat each other. You know, like some hen pecking order.", Cathy started to say. "Well, I'm the leader here.", Denise started to put in her own words. For a moment, everyone around, turned to face her. Denise looks back at everyone, "Well, I am." "I would not be too sure about that...", Juanita(Gloria) stated. "How about we leave it alone...", I said loudly. "I swear, why must we be petty about who leads and who follows, its getting stupid.", I trailed down to a lower tone. "Yeah, you're right.", Juanita saids quietly. "That does not excuse you from having an affair with that married woman.", Denise stated. "What...", I started to answer her, "Are we still at that again?" "Look Gutich... its for your own good that we stop this or at least tell you that you are wrong.", Denise stated. "Well, you listen to me.", I stated back at her, "Who I have a relationship with is none of your business unless you are the one involved in that relationship. Who I stick my god dick into is none of your god damn business." "But seriously, Gutich. You were almost killed by her husband.", Juanita interjected. "And look where he is now...", I tell her, "...and he's lucky he's in the hospital and not its morgue." "And how long is that luck going to last?", Denise stated. I was about to make my statement when Grace jumps in for the rebuttal, "As long as god so deemed it to be fit. I've have known Fernando a lot longer than anyone of you, and all that time I have seen him pull out miracles out of his ass when he needed them. And you can argue that it maybe the devil's luck helping him along, but I will argue that Fernando would be able to defeat the devil if he had to fight him." "God's given gift or some strange genetic quirk, you decide Denise. It seems that this group is filled with super powered mutants of varing skills... But you nor I are not going to take sides on that argument, but rather use- or abuse- our abilities to the best that we can.", I added. She became quiet for the moment. "Cant answer that one, can you?", I ask her, adding, "For what ever reason we are together, it will be to the best that we can do to help others, if not ourselves. We did the former that damn hell pit everyone calls a school... Third best in the nation- HA! If this damn country knew what went beyond in the walls of that school, it would be closed down." "The same happens in every school.", Juanita(Gloria) stated. "Not to the extent it does in Tech.", Cathy replied. "I would not know, I went to Catholic School.", Grace said. "Now that we are going to be out of that place, what's next?", I ask, wanting to say more but limit myself to just those few words. "I don't know.", most of them say. Jaunita adding, "I got 1 more year in there." "John's in the Navy. Kevin will be in the Airforce, so you tell me. I too got another year in that hell pit of a school...", I explained. "I got college to start.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. Then everyone turned to Cathy. "What?!!", she almost yells at everyone. "You got a husband to deal with and a baby coming up...", Denise tells her. "Randal's being shipped off in a few weeks, perhaps after he leaves the hosptial.", Cathy answers her. "That does not answer the question... and you got that baby in you to deal with when its born.", Denise stated as she knelt up and pointed at Cathy's lower abdomen. "And I'll be a good mother to it, if you so wanted to know...", Cathy answered angrily at her. "And what are you going to do about a father for it?", Denise taunted her further. "That is none of your business...", Cathy tells her. "She's going to use you, Gutich...", Denise stated as she turned to look at me. "Frankly Denise, this is getting old.", I tell her. "But it's the truth, damn it.", Denise tells me. "You listen here bitch. I do not care what you say or think about who I'm dating, in love with or just plain fucking the day lights out of...", I tell her sternly. "Shit, I swear... I came here for some peace and instead I get the third degree from some little girl." "I am not a little girl!", Denise argues back. "Oh yeah? You're what, 12? 13? Shit, Rachel here is 10... At your age you should be at Jr. high school, not graduating high school. How you did it no less remarkable, but as for you, now what? At your age, with a high school diploma- enjoy your freedom, for you wont be able to get a job unless you get lucky, or screw somebody for one.", I tell her. "That is so unfair of you to say!", Denise yells back. "Really, tell me Denise... how long have you been having sex? Since you entered Tech? How many times I had to get you or take you to the abortion clinic; and in all those times how often did you had to lie about your age?", I asked. "Well thank you for doing me the favor...", Denise blurts back at me. "Seriously, Denise. I do not tell you who should be your boyfriends, even if I disagree with the choices you make, but they are your choices and I am not here to make them for you. The same applies to you for me.", I tell her. At least for the moment, she remains silent. "Where did the boys go?", Juanita turns around looking for them. "They're having a guy talk.", I tell her. "But guys don't talk.", Juanita says. "Yes we do. Just not around you girls.", I tell her. I then take a deep sigh and try to get comfortable against the frame of the lifeguard chair. Juanita gets up and walks around the lifeguard chair looking for the boys. "Where can they be?", she then asks to herself aloud as she looks around. "Maybe they do not want to be bothered by us.", Cathy stated. "HMPH!...", Juanita replied to herself. For some reason, I begin to feel tired, leaning against Cathy and closing my eyes. She responds by leaning against me and together we support each other against the lifeguard seat. "Seriously, Jaunita...", I began to tell her with my eyes closed, "...let them go exploring on their own and deal with Raul in the meantime. Remember, we're talking about Kevin, John and Raul." "Yeah, that's what worries me.", Jaunita replies. I almost wanted to laugh at her answer, I can see where there is a cause for her concern, for those three can get themselves into trouble when none can be found. "Are you tired, Daddy?", Rachel asked as she crawled over to me and Cathy. "Yeah, I am.", I told her quietly, trailing off, "...and I don't know why." Rachel sits on my lap on and leans against my chest. "Now what if they left us?", Jaunita complains. "They did not left us here.", Denise complains, "they better not have." "And if they did"?, I asked in a 1/2 sleepy tone. "Would you dare leave Catherine?", Denise asks sternly as she turns to me. "I do not need to.", I replied. "And why not...?", Denise asks. I take in a deep sigh, and try to wake myself up a bit more than where I was consciously. I stretch for a second and then put my arms around Cathy, lightly holding her. "Why not?....Shhh... Just listen.". I tell her. "Listen To What?!!", Denise almost yells back at me. "I said to just listen.", I tell her as my ears pick up a radio playing a song in the distant background. "All I hear is the waves and people far far away...", Denise complains. "I said to just listen... Out there in the distance.", I explained. "Gutich, we don't have super sensitive hearing like you do...", Jaunita complained. "Your loss then.", I tell them. "What about me?", Cathy asks. "It's a song that being played- I don't know if you can hear it like I can...", I tell her. "What song?", Cathy asks. "It's an old one, but one that completes everything that I would need to say.", I explained. Jaunita(Gloria) sits back and concentrates on my thoughts for a second. "Baby, I'm Amazed?", Jaunita(Gloria) then asks. "What was that?", Cathy asks. "You complain when I do it, Jaunita- I should zap you into next year for doing it to me.", I complained to her. "Go ahead and do that- knowing full well you'll be zapping yourself too.", Jaunita(Gloria) says in a challenging tone. "I swear, Juanita- you of all people should know...", I begin to complain. "Know what? That you are a freaking chicken lying coward...", she began to say as she interupted me. "Jaunita!", Cathy yelled at her. "That's it...", I said out loud as I took Rachel off my lap and slowly got up. I then stepped over everyone and started walking to where the waves were breaking by the shore. "Jaunita- How could you?!!", I can hear Cathy yell at her friend. All the other girls just sat there, looking at me at I walked away. Jaunita(Gloria) sat there angry about something, but can not disclose what it was. It is rare for her to break out like that, unless she is picking something up from me. Like everytime she was horny to the extent to actually fucking some poor guy's brains out, was because she was picking up on my urges, and I was the intended target for her. For her to be angry enough to lash out at me, I would have to be moreso than her at somebody else. Currently, I can not figure out that I am or am not; maybe she was angry at me for some good reason, or we are just stuck in some feedback loop. I walk to where the waves die into the sand and stand there looking at the ocean once again. "I'm sure she did not meant what she said...", Cathy said from behind me, for while I was walking to the shore, she must have told Jaunita(Gloria) off before following me. "I am not sure anymore...", I said to myself. "Why do you say that?", Cathy asks. "Look, I don't know. Ever since I got out of the hospital, everyone has been against me. Why? Because they cant stand the fact that as much as I love you, you love me back?", I say trying to keep from raising my voice. "And Jaunita(Gloria) should know better." "I don't know what it is you mindreaders go through, but that is between you and her.", Cathy started to say. "Fernando," as she contniued to say, "I don't care if you started this round of fighting between you and my husband. All I know is that you are trying to do what is right for you, for me, for us. At least in trying, you're doing something instead of moping around and making excuses- like everyone else." "Cathy, I'll be honest with you; I did started this round.", I tell her. "I sorted knew that you did...", Cathy says. "But don't get me wrong...", I started to tell her. "I'm not. Look, I understand that he tried to kill you and you are just fighting back so that he does not get another chance...", she says, interupting me. "And if I end up killing him?", I ask. "If you kill him, what would I think? Seriously, Fernando... I would understand that it is self defense- even if you started the round. I would understand because he has made you his target, and Randal does not fail in getting his targets...", Cathy started to explain, "...until you came along." "You would not be angry with me then?", I asked. "Let me tell you something... remember that time last year when you were walking me home and we got attacked by the Flatbush boys?...", she asks. "Yeah.", I answered her. "Besides the fact that he sent them after you, but they got carried away and tried to hurt me in the process...", she continued to explain. "I remember...", I answer her. "A year before that- the same gang attacked Randal and I after a movie and dinner at Juniors... They beat him up badly, but this will remain between us...", she said. "What?", I asked. "He let them attack us. Then one by one, they were found dead during the following week. The cops blamed it on the gang wars of the area, but I knew it was him...", Cathy explained. "So...", I tried to interject. "Randal is dangerous. You see why even if I could, I could not get out of this marriage? He would have went after my sisters, my parents, me...", Cathy stated, holding back emotions and tears. "I know...", I said. "And now he has made you a target because of me. Maybe it would be better if we did break up and never saw each other ever again.", Cathy said. "No Cathy. Call me selfish or stupid, but I would not want to continue without you.", I tell her. "I don't want to either.", she responds as she tries to reach around me to give a hug. "And that is where the problem lies.", a third voice adds itself to ours. It was John. We slowly turn to him, trying to hide that he startled us, finding that he was not alone- along with Kevin and Raul. "We should leave them alone.", Kevin says. "What for, so they can destroy us with their little private war?", Raul complains. "There would not be a war if you gave Cathy here the respect she deserves.", I bark at him. "She's just a freaking slut, Fernando. You can do better than that!", Raul barks back. John steps in between Raul and us, "Fellas, we don't need this infighting amoungst ourselves." "All this started way before I entered into Tech, and it has yet allowed to die!", I started at Raul, "Give it up Raul- Cathy had no interest in you, let alone have any interest in having sex with you in the first place!", "That's where's you're wrong!", Raul shouts back at me, pushing against John, "I fucked that damned bitch several times!" "No he did not...", Cathy tells me softly. "Raul, I don't care for your mouth right now...", I yell at him. "This is a free country, and I can say what ever I damn well please!", Raul barks back at me. "Oh yeah, Me and your mother....!", I yell at him back. He manages to get past John to get me for that remark, for his mother has been dead for several years now, and like any little hispanic kid with a short temper, must defend his mother's virtue. I manage to yank myself from Cathy's grasp, and getting ready to put a death blow to his jaw. "STOP!", a loud and clear voice yells, but with inside our heads. It was Jaunita(Gloria) shouting out a mental command at us. He obeys it, I do not have too. The others seem to be affected by it as well, as she approaches us while the rest of the girls look on from the distance. "You- go home.", Jaunita(Gloria) tells Raul as she stops by him momentarily. He lets down his guard and starts walking away from us. "Well, look who's abusing their powers...", I say as I look at her. "I would not have to if you would have kept some control over yours.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated back at me before turning to Kevin and John, "You two- take care of your women..." They turn around and start to head to the girls. Jaunita(Gloria) finally stands in front of me, looking at Cathy, "You- go back...." "Don't!", I counter ordered Jaunita(Gloria's) command, "What ever you have to say Juanita(Gloria)- you say in front of us." Jaunita(Gloria) stand there in shock and awe that I would stand up to her, which should not be such a surprize since I do it all the time. "You little disrespectful cur...", she finally says. "Don't be going southern baptist on me, girl. You know you have no hold over me...", I tell her. "HMPH!", she says, interupting me. "...what is ever has to be said to me, can be said in front of Cathy.", I tell Jaunita(Gloria). We remain silent for a couple of seconds, I waiting for her to respond to that. "What ever the fucking problem you have with me, say it now. I see no damn reason for you- of all people- to be god damn angry at me for I have nothing to you!" "You lied to me...", Jaunita(Gloria) said quietly. "What?", I asked, "I did not hear you." "I said that you lied to me.", Jaunita(Gloria) louder. "Lied to you? Since When? About what?!!", I added. "About everything.", Jaunita(Gloria) replied. "Everything? Pray tell, like what?!!", I almost demanded of her. "YOU ATTACKED RANDAL, AND THEN TRIED TO HIDE THAT FACT, EVEN FROM ME- FOR ONE!", Jaunita(Gloria) started to exclaim excitedly. "So what are you going to do about it?", I asked her calmly. She could only stand there and do nothing, her brain racing for an answer that does not exist. "So what I attacked Randal. Big freaking deal- whoopy fucking doo- Jaunita(Gloria)! Remember- who attacked who first, who drew the first shot, who tried to kill other other since we all met- and for what? For some bitch's pussy that has been laid across America like some rail road track?...", I started to explain, and suddenly felt a hard slap go across my face. Cathy started to run away crying. "Serves you right!", Jaunita(Gloria) started to say as she walked right up to me, pointing a finger to my face. I grabbed her finger and twisted downward to her side, "Listen you- I love her even if she was the biggest whore in the country... I love her because she loves me back... and that is something that can not be taken away from me unless I destroy it myself..." "Looks like you just did.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Wouldn't you like...", I started to say, "What alterior motive is running through your head? You think you can have me for your own? Remember, I'm the type of guy that will not be controlled, no matter how much pussy you feed me." As I tell her this, she tries to struggle to get me to let go of her finger, only making it worse as we end up entangled within, wrestling with each other. She tries to do a judo throw that she learned from Raul on me, but Raul has never been able to sucessfully throw me to the ground; my gymnastics training always made sure that I always landed on my feet. In the here and now, she only manages to fall herself with me landing on top of her as she holds onto my arm. I try to get to cushion the fall by extending my arm past her, which is the worst way to land from a fall. In another time and another place, this would be more approprieate, maybe even romantic, but under the current circumstances, she only gets more angry. More so since like me, she can sense the laughter in the few who are looking at us, which includes Rachel, Debbie, and Cathy- who is trying very hard to hold it in. She does not however, sense the pain coming from my right shoulder since I am blocking much of the pain as I support myself above her. "Are you alright?", I asked as I held myself above her. "What Do You Think?!!", Jaunita(Gloria) says out loud at me. "Seriously, Jaunita. I just want to know if you're hurt.", I asked her with concern. "I'm still angry at you, if you want to know that...", she started to say, "Do You Mind Getting Up Off Me!" "I cant, Jaunita...", I started to tel her. "Why not?", she asks. "Look, Jaunita- I'm not making it up, but I think my shoulder is dislocated.", I try to tell her. "So you're saying that you're hurt...?", Jaunita(Gloria) asks. "Its nothing that I have been through before, its that for now I'm stuck in this position.", I try to explain. Cathy kneels beside us, "You alright Fernando?" "I'm going to need some help getting up off Jaunita(Gloria)", I tell her. "It seems to me that you should take advantage of the situation, and just do her...", Cathy says with a giggle in her voice. "Its not funny, Catherine... My shoulder's dislocated and my weight is on it... You know how heavy I am...", I tell her. Hearing that, Jaunita(Gloria) puts her hands on my shoulders and push up against me, but its not enough to get me off her, at most only adds to the support. "Well," Cathy says as she tries to hold back the laughter as she drew herself closer to us- face to face, "There its no better time than now to end this little dispute between the two of you." "I'm in a lot of pain, Catherine...", I told her sternly. "Look, just go do that mind connection thing you two do, and end the argument there. Then I will help you.", she says to us. "Cathy...", I started to say. "I cant help you...", Cathy said as she plugs in her ears with her fingers. "I swear- I'm going to give her a headache when all this is done.", I say to myself quietly . "No you're not!", Jaunita(Gloria) stated too loudy for the distance we shared. I let out a deep seated sigh, remaining quiet for the moment. "Alright then, you want to go through with what she said?", I asked Jaunita(Gloria). "What for? So you can lie to me some more?", Jaunita(Gloria) stated angrily. "Look, Jaunita(Gloria)- we may share the same brain frequencies and patterns, but that's all we share- I'm male and you're female, so we will have some differences in the way we think. And for me to be a male and to live out in that role demands certain actions that you as a female would not take- including lying to you. But since you like to think that we share more than just our frequencies and patterns, but our thoughts as well, and it just does not work out that way." Jaunita(Gloria) remains mifted at what I was telling her, as I waited for a response. "Well, in order to understand me, Jaunita(Gloria), you better start to think like me- male and all...", I tell her. "You really think its that simple, to blame your fault because of your sex...", Jaunita(Gloria) says to me. "You girls do it all the time to us boys.", I tell her. "Yeah- how so...", Jaunita(Gloria) demanded for an answer. "Being bitchy, rude, mean, obnoxious to us, even when we don't deserve such a response and then blame it all on your period- for one. Teasing us into excitement and then thinking that it can be stopped with a flick of a switch- that is not easy for us to do, in fact its dangerous for us since much of our internal workings is based on blood pressure. But no, you girls think that is how it works, flick a switch and then flick it again...", I explained. "I've never done that to you...", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Oh yes you have... you just don't want to remember.", I tell her. "Then remind me.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Verbally, or mentally?", I asked. "Verbally... I want Cathy to hear this.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "I'm just going to give you two out of the several times it has happened, First: under Shortfellow Tree afterschool on my birthday...", I started to say before getting the palm of her hand put hard against my mouth. "I should have known that you were cheating behind my back, and with my best friend too...", Cathy said seriously but was joking about it. "Catherine! I Did Not Do Anything With Him!", Jaunita(Gloria) almost yells back at her. "You should have fucked him when you had the chance, then he might have been yours- but no, you didn't, and he's mine...", Cathy said, one can almost hear her enjoyment in the teasing in her voice, "Why don't you let him state the second instence...?" Jaunita(Gloria) turned back to face me, as I reached with my other hand to take hers off my mouth. "Well...", I started to say, "The second time- you promised me that on Cathy's wedding day that you would be there for me, and you weren't, but in that little plan of yours to get me to stop the wedding- you laid on her bed- naked and waiting for me to do you like some reward to do the job for... And you know that did not work." "And why not?", Jaunita(Gloria) asks, "Any guy would have jumped at the chance to fuck a virgin like me..." "Fernando is not like most guys...", Cathy started to say. "Maybe I'm not..., But what if I did, Jaunita(Gloria)? What if you ended up pregnant? What then? You think I would support you and the baby? Hell, I have problems supporting myself!", I tell her. Jaunita(Gloria) stares at me, unsure how to answer. I slowly lower my head to hers until our foreheads touched, "Look, you want answers as to why I have to lie- then here- full access to everything that has happened since all of you entered into my life- but nothing beyond that! You Understand?", I tell her as I close my eyes to concentrate on our matching frequencies and letting down the mental guards that are there against a psyche attack. I can feel Jaunita(Gloria)'s arms relax their pressure against my shoulders, as she goes into my mind. She stands besides me in that realm of reality that very few know outside of themselves. 'You want access to the memories and emotions that I have undergone during this time- you better start here...', I tell her, as I point to a door that is labled as [Randal's Inner Thought]. 'Yes I did download his thoughts onto mine- how else would I know what his next moves are? He is a dangerous individual- Jaunita(Gloria), more dangerous than Raul or any of the other Shortfellows are willing to give him credit for. Now go and look...' She hesitantly goes to the door and stops by it. 'Open it...', I tell her. She looks back at me for a moment and slowly opens the door. Inside she sees the time line of events and his matching memories, people he has killed along the way in his life- people he has destroyed when he could not kill them. The abuse of power he has undertaken with his father's mafia ties. And the faces of people he wants to see dead- mine being on the top of the list, several of the Shortfellows, including hers, below. Even Cathy is on that list. Slowly, she closes the door and turns to me nervously. 'Do you want to continue?', I ask. She shakes her head to say no. 'Too bad- this is not some muesum tour you can just walk away from...', I tell her as I take her by the hand and lead her to me, before pushing her into a dark area in my mind. She stumbles and eventually falls, then semi sits there looking around. Memories are played back, starting with the start of summer school, and the problems Randal has started with me; the threats, the attempts, and finally her being in my place as I look at the hill in the park, seeing Randal there in a prone position with a rifle as he takes a shot at me. The bullet traveling slowly until it strkes the ruby lens of my glasses, and the resulting surge of engery exploding outward- vaporizing the bullet as the ruby fragments fly outward, but the shockwave still hitting me full in the face. That alone should have killed me but didn't. I can hear her scream from within, then silence. I refuse to let myself go in there after her. To her it remains quite for a while, then another memory plays out. That those of the following days, afterwards. The melee in the hospital, and the events of the following days. The attack on Randal the following morning, and his two attacks on me. In all instences, he had his gun on his body, though he only used it once on me, his intentions speak louder than words in carrying it, its that I never gave him the chance to use it other than that first time. She comes out of the darkness, not knowing what to say to me, still shaking from experiencing my unadultered memories. I take her by the hand and guide her toward me until she was beside me. 'Had enough?' I tell her. She looks up at me, wanting to say yes, but doesn't say a thing at all. 'Well, I don't care- here you are, supposed to be my equal in mind and power, and yet you tremble in fear; from just the memories that are there. Try living through it.', I tell her before I give a pull on her arm and do a spinning dance manuver, letting her go back into the darkness as she spins rapidly. She trips upon her own feet and fall. As she tries to get up, the stream of memories from the first day I went to tech, the friends I made there, the mindset, handicaps and disabilities flood into her mind. Nothing was held back, not even my darkest of secrets during this time. I can sense her wanting to scream, but is silenced by it all. She comes out looking like she had lived a thousand lifetimes of horror and terror. 'Even in knowing all that, you will not understand why I continue on where most would fail.', I tell her. She stops in front of me and looks up at me. I place my hand on her head, 'Even if you were to think like me, have my memories, and own my experiences, you do not have my body. Male or not- Jaunita... to have bones that are vitually unbreakable, a hyper conductive nervous system, and a super reinforced muscle system; on top of the telepathy and other mental attributes that we both share, maybe you'll understand that I do not fear no one.' I concetrate onto her mind, feeding into it the essence of my being into her, so she can understand me more than just a collection of memories, or a trail of deeds that I have sacrificed for others. She takes both of hands and takes them to my wrist, trying to remove them off her forehead. 'Enough already!', she says outloud. 'There is one more thing...', I add as I insert one final item into her mind. Axion Mylarisis, the genetic degenerative nerve disease that I was born with, the pain it gives me and the thought of my ultimate demise of a life shorter than most. But its known that the silver in my nerves, for some reason is counteracting the Axion Mylarisis, giving some strange results. She tried to hold herself up as the last of this input is placed inside her mind. 'The only thing left is for you to live in my body, to fully understand, but if you think I'm going to do that, you must be out of your damn mind...' She manages to take my hand off her head, even though I had finished inputting all that I can into her mind. 'Just stop it!', she yells. 'You now understand?', I ask. 'Yes...', she answers. 'I don't think you do; but I am not you, and even in being to share your thoughts with mine, your feelings too, I have to be suffice with just mere words. Trust comes into play, Jaunita. As does Love and Understanding. Without that, there can be nothing between us.', I started to explain. 'Fernando,' as she reached over to hold me, 'I understand what you got to do, and why you got to do it. I always thought that you playing the role of guardian angel to us was just a ploy, now it is now obvious that you must continue- for us and everyone yet to come.' 'Jaunita(Gloria)...', I started to ask. 'Yes?', she replies. 'If it wasn't for that, I would have, wanted you... and wanted you to be the mother to my children.', I tell her hestitantly. 'You still have that chance if you want it to be...', Jaunita(Gloria) stated. 'I... cant...', I started to say. 'Because...', Jaunita(Gloria) stated. '...because I cant be father to your children and Cathy's, and protect everyone at the sametime.', I tell her. 'I think you can.', she saids. 'But you have not lived to your end of the bargin either- miss.', I tell her. 'And what would that be?', she said. 'In your words... To be there for me after Cathy's wedding, no matter what.', I stated, 'You disappeared after the wedding.' 'I was going to be there, but I had to take care of a few things myself...', she defended herself. 'In fact you did not show up until after I was well in the hospital...', I started to say. 'I was down south, taking care of family business...', she almost argued back. 'In truth, I do not think that you wanted to be back, knowing full well that we may start a sexual relationship...', I started to explain. 'Its not that, Fernando...', she saids. 'Look, I just want you to understand that if we were to have started our own relationship, whether we had sex or not does not matter in importance. But I know how carried away you get when we start making out in the slightest- because you are picking up my thoughts and feelings and having them amplified within yourself and sending it back to me, then we end up in a sexual psyche loop that we have been lucky to stop ourselves before anything happened.', I explained. 'I know...', she saids as she looked away from me. 'Look- as long as Randal continues to be a threat to any of us, I'll do my best to end it.', I tell her. 'He will no longer be a threat...', Jaunita(Gloria) started to say. 'How can you say that?', I tell her. 'He got what he wants, and now that he has her, will stop this game of threats and death...', Jaunita(Gloria) explains. 'Juanita(Gloria), he wants me dead, he even tried to fulfil that wish! Furthermore, he wants the rest of you to die or suffer in trying- including you because he sees you as a threat to his marriage. A marriage that he treats as a form of property and not as a relationship.', I explain to her. 'And what about you? What motives do you have?' Juanita(Gloria) asks. 'You forgotten the time we spent at Cathy's place on the day of her wedding?', I ask. 'Yes, but I want to hear those words from you.', she says. 'What about the time we spent sleeping together?', I asked. 'I remember. But I still want to hear it from you.', Jaunita(Gloria) demanded. 'OK then, the only thing I want is for her to be happy, wether it is through me or somebody else. I would prefer if it was through somebody else, because I would not be able to support her, at least not on a summer-time lifeguard salery.', I started to say. 'Fernando, whether it be me or her- you would find a way to support who ever is lucky enough to have you as a boyfriend, and eventually as a husband. So stop doubting yourself, and start taking action in order to suceed!', she saids outloud. I remain to stay silent afterwards. 'Look, if you want a girlfriend, you got me.', she started to say. 'But as for us having sex before marriage, you know my answer...', Jaunita(Gloria) stated. 'That's not the problem...', I started to say. 'Then what is it?', Jaunita(Gloria) asks. 'Its us... Jaunita(Gloria). Its us being so involved and heated up, that we would break that promise to you...', I tell her. 'And if it happens? Then so be it. I love you that much that I would break my own promise for you.', she answers. 'Its not the way I want it.... I mean I do, but I don't...', I tell her. 'Are you scared?', she asks. 'Scared of what?', I started to say, 'Yes I am scared but of what, nor am I letting it affect how I deal with things...' 'I think you are scared, and is letting it affect everyone and everything around you.', Jaunita(Gloria) saids. 'Then tell me what it is that I'm afraid of.', I tell her. 'You're afraid of getting hurt. You're scared that ending your relationship with Cathy, you would end up hurt or alone. Terrified of starting a relationship with me...', Jaunita(Gloria) started to say. 'I swear Jaunita...', I started to say, 'That type of psychology might be true for the others, but it is not true with me.' 'Then prove it. Start going out with me.', Jaunita(Gloria) stated. 'Now how is that going to prove anything? In fact, it would make things worse.', I started to explain. 'How so?', she interupts me. 'How so? With me too preoccuppied with you, who is going to watch over of Catherine?', I asked. 'I'm not stopping you from protecting her.', Jaunita(Gloria) answers. 'And what about...', I started to say. 'Sex? Is that all on your mind?', Jaunita(Gloria) complains. 'I was thinking more in terms of other activities like courtship, dating and perhaps foreplay, though those things were not in my mind', I tried to explain. 'Then what is it?', she asks. 'What about your sister Elaine, and your brother Arnold.', I answered. 'What about them?', she asks. 'Well, Elaine does not like me, and Arnold threatened me with death if I started going out with you, though I stared down the little rug rat when he made that threat.', I answered. 'Who I date is my business, not theirs.', she saids. 'But they can make it uncomfortable for me...', I started to explain. 'I would like to see them try...', Jaunita(Gloria) stated, interupting me. 'They can and will try.', I interupt her. 'Tell me, what can they do, like you have such problems now.', Jaunita(Gloria) stated, almost demanding. 'Oh No... Like Cathy's sisters have been nice to me all this time... Really, Jaunita(Gloria)- not many of her family does not like me either.', I explained. 'That's because you were trying to keep her from her promised marriage to Randal.', she answers. 'Now that she is married- they hate me even more...', I tell her. 'That's because they see you as a threat to that marriage.', Jaunita(Gloria) answers. For a while I stay there thinking, trying to keep such thoughts away from her access. 'Well, what are you thinking?', she asks. 'What was I thinking?', I replied. She gives a quick 'ahum...' as I continued, 'Simple- a What If scenero of I wishing that I never went to Tech, and stayed in Richman.' 'Why would you dare think that?', Jaunita(Gloria) asks. 'Simple- then I would have never met Catherine, fell in love with her, have her fall in love with me, having to have gone through the hell with her, Randal and even the Shortfellows. Then there is going through the same thing through you as I did with Catherine, but never acting upon on it.', I explain. 'Oh sure- then chances are that you would have been killed by Ricky or Alfonzo and their little gang, gone through hell with that wreck of a relationship with Mary, then there is Grace... which I still do not see how she fits in.', Jaunita(Gloria) answers. 'Jaunita(Gloria)...?', I ask her for her attention? 'What...', she replies almost annoyed in thinking that I was going to say something to either my defense or promotion. 'Do you want to marry me?', I ask her. She becomes shocked at the words that I stated to her inside our little realm, and her reaction, furthest from what I would have expected as she abruptly disconnects from our little realm, forcing reality to rush in. Somehow during this, she pushes hard against me and I end up laying on my back next to her. Along with reality, comes the pain of a dislocated shoulder and that being thrown off and land on it. She sits up, turning to me, before getting up and running away. Whether she was crying or not, I was too beside my pain to really even care. Cathy jumps to my side and tries to comfort me, but fails because she knows not what to do. Turning around, she sees Jaunita(Gloria) running past the lifeguard chair and continues towards the deck and exit. She thinks for a few seconds, before giving up on me and chase after her, saying, "I'm sorry Fernando, but she is more important..." I refuse to respond, just sit there doubled over in pain as I hold onto my arm against my body. The girls see Jaunita(Gloria) run away and then Cathy after her, before noticing that I was further down the shore, sitting with my back towards them. First Rachel, gets up and runs towards me, followed by Debbie and then Grace. "Gutichie, Gutichie, Gutichie.... Are you alright?", as I can hear Rachel calling out to me as she approaches. She throws herself on the sand to sit next to me and checks me out, "What happened?" Debbie follows a couple of seconds later, landing opposite to Rachel. "Look, I'll be OK after a while...", I tried to say holding back the pain. Grace slows down and sets herself kneeling behind me, looking down at us. "I thought these harlots were nothing but trouble...", she saids to herself. "Look Grace, Jaunita is much a virgin as you are- so don't be malplenting on my friends, for they do not do so to you.", I tell her. "Sure, you say that to defend her...", Grace says. "And I say things to defend you. Look- you have to trust me on this one, as they have to trust me about you, and ontop of all that- I have to trust everyone.", I started to explain. "And it sometimes does not always work...", Grace says. "Look Grace, I am not here to argue about my friends. People who do can be easily written off that list.", I warn her. "You willing to write me off, the years we have had together?", Grace added. "Yes..... Damnit... I swear.", I started off. "Rachel- Get on my lap and pull my arm towards you..." "You woul...what?", Grace started before Rachel took action, then seeing her do as I say. Rachel takes my arm as she straddles me, burying her feet into the sand and begins to pull. But she slides in the sand, and eventually plops on my lap. "Try putting both your feet against my stomache...", I tell her. Rachel does as she was told, and together we work on aligning my shoulder into its socket. "Slowly girl...", I tell her, "Now twist with me..." Together we work into getting my shoulder back into place, and succeed as pain free as possible. She finally sits on my lap as I massage my shoulder and move it around for a bit. I then put my arm down and place my hand into the sand. "What was all that about?", Rachel finally asks. "Nothing.", I tell her. "You're not going to tell us, arent you.", Rachel stated. "No I wont, so how about finding out from the other source.", I tell her. For a second, Debbie and Rachel look at each other, before darting off to find Cathy and Jaunita(Gloria). "So you are willing to write me off...?", Grace said after the girls were well far into the distance. "Don't start with me, Grace. You know that when pushed to the extremes, I will do whatever it takes to do what is right, even if it means making my friends into my enemies.", I explain to her. "That is no excuse for your behavior. I swear, Fernando- you have changed, and changed for the worse.", Grace says. "What makes you say that? Besides- trying surviving a near fatal attempt on your life and see how well you deal with it. If you were me, you'd be lucky to still have friends like you who cares and understands. Or at least I thought they did.", I tell her. "Well, if you let us get closer into your life and see what these problems are, maybe we can help you.", Grace stated. "Well, maybe if you would let me closer into your life- I could help out your problems. I swear Grace, you and Cathy are too much alike: prearranged marriages, secret lives,...", I started to say. "...and we both got you.", she interupts me. "What is that supposed to mean?", I ask, almost sarcastically. "If you don't get it, nobody else will.", Grace answered. "OK, I don't get it, so explain it.", I tell her. "You're not that stupid...", she says. "Humor me, and explain it.", I tell her. "It simple- if you were not in between us to compare, nobody else would notice the simillarities.", she explains. "So you are saying its my fault? If I was not there, things would have been easy for the both of you to accept your realities and responsibilities?", I almost mocked her tone. "Fernando, I swear!", Grace said. "Look, there are a lot of wrong things in this world, and if I can help fix it, than I am going to try. Prearranged marriages in this day and age are wrong!", I tell her. "And what are you going to do about it? Marry us both?", she argues. "If I could, I would. But seriously, with girls like you out of the picture, where does that leave a guy like me to find one for a wife?...", I tell her. "Same place you found me and Catherine.", Grace interupts me. "Seriously- you really think so... shit, I swear- nothing but hoes and bitches in the projects, and stupid dumb ones in school. Even if I can find another one, I have to sort and dig through the crowd of idiotic females that have no reason but some hidden adgenda to hate me.", I tell her as I got up, and start stepping towards the water. "And where do you think you are going?", she asks. "Someplace you cant follow...", I tell her sarcastically, as I continued onward to ankle high waters. She tries to follow me but the approaching waves forces her to go back to drier sands. I can sense her wanting to call to me, and of her anger slowly simmering. Yet the gears in her head spin, and she takes action: she starts to take off her shoes and socks, rolling up her pants to knee high, and start after me. As each wave crashed onto her shins, she looks down to see if her clothes had gotten wet, cursing me out in her mind in the process. "FERNANDO!" she yells at me. I stop at knee high depths to turn and face her. "I told you I'm going to where you can not follow me...", I yell at her. An incoming wave strikes me above the waist band of my bathingsuit, rushing past me. Grace see the surge of water rushing towards, turns around to run away from it. She barely makes it out in time. Before the wave can pull back to the lower level, I dive into the waist high water and dart out to deeper water. I can feel the riptide try to pull me out further than I wanted too, making quick adjustments to get out of its grasp before it does. I pop out in about 7 ft of the water, though the waves makes it anywhere inbetween 5 and 7 feet. Turning around I can see Grace on the shore picking up her socks and shoes and heading back to the life guard chair. Along the way, she runs into Cathy, have a small discussion and Grace points into the ocean to where I was at. Cathy then takes off her clothes, handing them to Grace before walking, then running into the waves. I take a deep breathe and go under the water. Trying to maintain my balance as I stand on the ocean floor takes a lot of energy as the waves move me about. So unlike a pool where one can just rest and concentrate on staying under the water. Instead of minutes, I manage just a few tens of seconds under the waves. I break the surface, unaware that Cathy had swam her way to with in feet of my area. Cathy is, one of the better female swimmers that I know outside of the lifeguard or swimming team cirlces, though some of that is because of my constant pushing her to be better at the tech pool- or in those rare instances- the pool where I work. I think though, Rachel, Debbie and Stephanie are just a bit better. Though I can stand on the floor when the waves are at their low point, Cathy can't or would end up under the water. She stays above the water in a slow dog paddle as she looks for me, only to have me surface just a few feet away from her. As I shake off the water from my face, she hestitate for a moment to protect her self from being splashed before springing forwards to grab at me. As she reaches forward me, trying to reach out and grab me by the shoulder or neck. Still trying to wipe the salt water from my eyes, I feel her arm trying to grab at me and I quickly push it out of the way in defense of myself. "Fernando!", Cathy yells at me. "Cathy! What Are You Doing Out Here?!!", I yell at her back. "Trying to get to you...", she tells me. She tries to pounce onto me a second time. I pounce back away from her, "What Are You Doing?!!" "Fernando- The water is too deep for me!", she says back loudly. "Serves you right...", I said, though to myself, she definitely heard it. "Sometimes I swear, Fernando- Why Do I Put Up With You Sometimes?", Cathy says out loud. "Why don't you just tell me why you are here...", I tell her. "Fernando- I can not tread water forever!", she says. I go from vertical to horizontal, giving a good hard kick to propel me forward, taking her hand along the way and pulling her just a few feet closer to shore. In mid stroke, I slow down to a stop and put my feet onto the ocean floor, finding the water at shoulder depth. I pull her towards me, "You be safe here." She puts her arms around my neck as she puts her feet onto the floor, but ends up standing on my feet instead. She contines to draw herself closer to me, pressing her body against mine. I want to push her away from me, but cant. After about a second, she rest her head against my shoulder. She lets out a sigh of relief before saying anything, or I thought she was going to say something. After a bit of silence, thinking that she was about to say something, but didn't, I try to break the silence between us, "Why are you here.", I asked. "I swear, why do I even try...", Cathy started to say as she pulled away from me to look at me. "Well...", I interupted her. "Look, I was trying to get this little argument between you and Juanita(Gloria) ended and to be as friends again.", Cathy said. "What if I don't want to be friends with her?", I tell her. "You have no choice. If you are going to be with me, you got to be friends with her.... Honestly- Fernando, you and her share thoughts and feelings like if the two of you were twins, but yet you two are so unlike...", Cathy started to say. "Of course, we're unalike- I'm male and she's female for one... she's Black and I Puerto Rican for two...", I started to tell her. "So, that's it- you just want to fuck her black pussy?", Cathy said. It was hard to tell to if she was serious or just joking about it. "Look Cathy- it is not about sex, or fucking her... Damn I swear...", I said, slowling trailing down to silence. "I was just joking, Fernando...", she said. "I'm not.", I tell her. "I could arrange it though...", she said, with a slight smile as she pressed herself against me again. Since the first time she pressed herself against, and almost everytime since, everytime we get that close for what ever reason, even the most innocent of ones, my penis seems to have a mind of its own- being awaken into full erection, and press against her. Thinking that the cool ocean water would keep that to a minimum, it does not. She just makes it worse by pressing her crotch harder against mine. "...I doubt though that she would want it now...", she says with a giggle. "CATHY!", I tried to hold back from yelling. "What...?", she said, "I'm just saying because I see that you're 'interested...'", she stated. "I Am Not Interested...", I tell her. "Oh really?", she said as she spearated from me a bit, letting one hand to go down in the water, following the side of my body. "Then explain this?", she then said as she suddenly shoved her hand into my bathing suit and grabbing at my erect penis. "HEY!", I said out loud as I tried to take a step back. I couldn't as she tightens her grip on me down there, pulling me towards her. She tries to laugh quietly but fails in all attempts. "You know- Raul is right. 'When you got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.'", she said. "I am not following anyone.", I protest. "No? We'll see about that...", she says with a smile and gives me a quick yank on me down there. I hop-stepped towards her as to keep her from hurting me down there. As I got closer, she pounces on me, wrapping a leg around my waist and both arms high upon my neck. As she does, she places me just under her crotch. If it wasn't her her bikini bottom, I would be penetrating her about now. "...that is so much better. It seems to me that you're enjoying this...", as she tighten her grasp around me and pushed down onto my erection, "...aren't you." I thought for a couple of seconds, trying to figure out how to get out of this. "Not as much as you are...", I replied, slowly putting my hands down her sides and onto her hips, and began to slowly rock her back and forth on me. She just stares back into my eyes and smiles, her breathing becoming slightly heavier. "How about we stop before we get too carried away with ourselves.", I tell her. "How about we don't for now...", she answers. "What about Jaunita(Gloria) and the others?", I asked. "They are not out here with us...", she replies, then she wraps her other leg around me and squeezes down. I try hard not to get caught up in the action, though once Cathy gets started, its hard for her to stop unless she is the one playing around which is sometimes hard to tall at times. I then started my plan into action, slowly bringing my hand onto her waist and back down, working it inside her bikini waist band and try to slide it down off her. She reaches into the water to take my hand from out of there, and draws it to her bikini bra, and slips it under. She leans over to me and blows into my ear, and whispers, "You want me, don't you?" "NO I DON'T!", I say out loud as I try to push her away from me and collapse my legs under the water. Cathy quickly wakes up from her little day dream, and lets me go to not become part of the sinking mass I was. Under water, I follow the ocean floor for a few feet before pushing up and breaking the surface several feet away from her. I was expecting her to be shrieking from the sudden move against her, but she was standing there silently with that so familar stance of having her arms crossed, though they cant be seen underwater. "Now, what did Jaunita(Gloria) said?", I said out loud between us. "I'm not telling you anything until you apologize for that!", she says outloud back. "I not doing that sort of thing!", I tell her. "Well then, I'm not saying thing on her behalf...", she said as she started to swim back to the shore. She had taken a couple of strokes before I dove into the water and try to head her off. I come out just in front of her, and she crashes into me where the water was about waist high. "DAMN YOU!", she yells at me as she got up onto her feet. "How about an answer.", I tell her. She pushes me hard and I slip on the floor and fall into the water. I put my hand behind me as I try to cushion the fall and end up sitting on the floor with the water momentarily over my head. I twist around and try to get up out of the water, surfacing, I see that Cathy was at knee-high depth. Instinctively, I call out to her, "Cathy!" She turns around monetarily, not happy to see me, but suddenly her expression changes. As I got up, a large wave grows behind me, and then over me, knocking me back down onto the ocean floor. In my mind I say to myself, '...you should have seen that one coming...', as I grab onto the sandy floor because of what is coming next- the rip-tide. Loose sand debris goes by and over me as I hold on, then try to get up as it subsides. This time I prepare myself for the next wave to hit me, and perhaps wash off some of this sand that has spottedly covered me. As it hits, I curl up to get the most maximum effect possible. As it passes, I get up again and follow it to the shore. I find Cathy has made it back to the sandy beach where the was water was ankle high. What ever concern she may have had of the wave knocking me down was all gone as she stood there trying not to laugh. Not far behind her on dryier sand was Grace, who was still holding Cathy's stuff as she stood there. I try to ignore them as best as I can as I approached the shore. Cathy stands next to Grace as they both watched me, and comment on. They do not think that I can hear them, but I do. "You did not get anywhere with him, did you?", Grace asks. "No, me outsmarted me this time.", Cathy responded. "He's not so easily fooled...", Grace started to say. "Yeah its that telepathic ability of his...", Cathy says to herself, interupting her. "You actually believe in that stuff?", Grace asks. "It explains a lot of things if you think about it.", Cathy answers her. "There are too many things that can be explained away, but it's the explaination that I do not agree with.", Grace stated. "So, you don't believe?...", Cathy started to ask. "Do I believe, that depends on what it is to believe.", Grace interupts her to answer, "As for ESP, and other strange explainations of super powers- that depends on what it is." "What about in his case?", Cathy asks. "Fernando? Well, thanks to him I have to retink about a lot of things. Such power can be real, but who's controlling them...? In his case- Is he the son of Satan, or Jesus reborn to live a life like a man until he is ready to appear.", Grace started to explain, "But you know what?..." "What?", Cathy answers with a question. "I can deal with him being the son of Satan... For if Fernando is in some way Jesus reborn, as foretold in the scriptures, then this world is doomed.", Grace answers. "You can not honestly believe that...", a third voice joins them, that being of Juanita(Gloria) who came in unnotcied from behind. They turn to face her. "Jaunita(Gloria)...", Cathy started to say. "Despite what he has said and done, of which I will not defend him for, I can say that he is neither evil or the Messiah.", Jaunita(Gloria) interupted Cathy. "Everyone is given some sort of god-given power, but very few ever get to see these powers come to life, and even fewer will ever get to use them- whether for good or bad.", she continues. I try to stay far away from them, but still within ear shot of them as I pretended to wipe my face down and 'get the water out from my ears.' "Look for what ever reasons we somehow are gathered, with such abilities and strengths, then we must turn them for good. Thus far- Fernando has taken this egotistical group and rescued that damn school of ours out of a spiralling dive into oblivion...", Cathy started to say. "He started to do the same thing in Julia Richman; but for what ever reason, he decided that he would be better in Tech. I say it was a mistake.", Grace added. "There wasn't much for him to do in Richman...", Jaunita(Gloria) started to say. "Oh really- gang situation, extortion, rapes, crimes at an all time high and everyone was the victim there- Compared to Tech- Richman was 1/10th the size and 100 times the violent crimes. And on the summer he was transfering to your school- he put a major dent into the gang activity there before totally taking care of them at the very pool he works for, and he did so blind and handicapped.", Grace stated the facts to them. "We know of that happened there...", Cathy started to say. "No you don't.", Grace reiterated. "Don't be telling me what I know and don't now.", Cathy snaps back at her. "I'm telling you, you don't know.", Grace tells her. "Oh, because you were there, makes you more capable of knowing more than we do?", Cathy snaps back at her one more time. "You might have been there for all those times he was in school, but when he went home, I was there. And unlike you ladies, I was there for him on days which he didn't want to go to school but did and those days he should have not gone but did as well.", Grace stated. "My, that must be some pussy you got there, if you can make the dead walk like you say...", Cathy stated sarcastically. Grace wanted to jump at her andd give her a good thrashing that Cathy may have deserved for the comment, but she held back and violent tendencies to do so. Juanita(Gloria) placed herself between the two of them just to make sure this does not end up as a cat fight. "Most bitches would jump at you for making such a statement, but I'm beyond that.", Grace says as she turns away from them and takes a step away. "You insinuating that I'm a bitch?", Cathy almost yells at her. "If the name fits, wear it.", Grace answers back. "Why you freaking hoe...", cathy started to say to herself. "Calm yourself down, woman!", Jaunita(Gloria) stated to her. Cathy stares at her as if to challenge her. "She's not the enemy here, so cut it out!", Jaunita(Gloria) added. With that Cathy calms down. I had to refrain from laughing when I heard that. Having heard enough, I decided to interupt the little group with my presence, after I shake off much of the water off my body like some wet dog. Continueing to rub my eyes to keep them dry, for a bit of the salt water had fell in and started to sting a bit, I walked right up to them and continued onward, passing between the space where Grace and Jaunita(Gloria) stood. No word was said between us all, though I can sense their eyes on my back as I walked by. Finally, Cathy steps out from behind Jaunita(Gloria) and runs to get in front of me. I continued to walk 'blindly', causing to bump into Cathy as she stops in front of me. "Hey!" I said outloud. Cathy grabs me by the wrists as I kept my fists to my eyes, and tries to pull them away from my face. "Stop rubbing your eyes- damn it, you're going to make it worse!", she stated with concern. "I'll be fine, Cathy! Just need to get to the camp to sit down!", I tell her. "Stop rubbing your eyes and I'll get you there!", she tells me. I continue to fight her on, but slowly let her win this battle, but I keep my eyes tightly shut. Once having my hands away from my face, she turns and runs towards the camp. I have little choice but to follow blindly. Several yards of running, and I loose track of where we are going, rather, the direction of where we are going, for the final destination was obivous. Cathy changes direction and I have to compensate for it as she begins to slow down. She stops without warning, and pulls on me arm towards her, forcing me to run an arch around her. I force myself to stop, trying not to collide into her or trip on my own two feet. She darts out in the direction where we first running, letting me go as she pulls on me again. I take a step to regain my balance as she runs away. Not far, and less than a few seconds later, I can hear the others complainly loudly, then followed by a whap to the face by a large towel and hands rubbing it into my face. "CUT THAT OUT!", I try to yell out with a face full of towel, as I put my hands to who ever it was to fight them off. "Just relax, will you?!!", Cathy almost shouts back. Slowly she stops rubbing the towel on my face so I can pull it down. I pull the towel off my face, holding it to my chin, and squinting hard, slowly looking about to get my bearings again: on the other side of the lifegaurd chair where the camp was at. I can hear giggling to the left and slightly above us, that of Debbie and Rachel who have manged to climb on the sturcture. I turn to face them, seeing them as I squint a bit less to get a clearer picture. I just take a deep sigh as I look at them, reaching out to the life guard chair, using it to guide me to the other side where the others are at. With just a few steps I get back to my space, sitting down once again. Juanita(Gloria) and Grace follow not to far behind, rejoining the group as Cathy kneels down besides me and searches my bag for my eye drops. "Cathy, what are you doing?", I ask her. "Getting your eye drops for you...", she says. "So you can burn my eyes again, Cathy?", I ask her sarcastically. She just looks at me unsure what to do or say next and she pulls out three small bottles of eye medications between her fingers. I take my hand upon hers, taking the bottles of medication to dump back into the bag again. "But I was only trying to help...", Cathy stated. "Yet you forgot what happened the last time, and that was not more than a couple of hours ago...", I tell her. "But... we didn't know how it was going to react...", Cathy saids silently. "Look, just leave it be. OK?", I say to her. Cathy sits on her knees, just drawing back perhaps just a couple of inches away from me. "She was only trying to help..." Rachel says from above. "Not you too, Rachel.", I say out loud. "I'm just trying to point out that you're being a meanie head...", Rachel says. Most of the girls in the group started to laugh when they heard that, making argeeing comments to the statement. "Yeah- you are being a meanie head!", Cathy says out loud as the laughter begins to die down. She slowly shifts about to sit next to me and lean against my shoulder. I sit back unaware of her actions, placing my bent arm against my eyes. "Maybe I want to be left alone...", I finally tell everyone. "Why do you want to be left alone?...", Denise stated before anyone else could. "Why not?", I interupted her from saying further from her question. "I swear Denise, I did everything I could for you guys and all I get is grief and hardships from you guys? Better yet- when I need something, I'm either ridiculed or denied that is owed to me? No... Its better for me to just be left alone, Damn it." "There you go, being a meanie head again...", Rachel added. "Rachel. Shut Up...", I tell her sternly. A silent "Yes Daddy...", was heard from her as she draw away from everyone's view up above. For a while everyone remained silently staring at me. "We only wanted the best for you...", Denise started to say. "Oh, and what would that be?", I mockingly ask her. Denise tries to answer, but I jump in before she could, "Look you... during your time in forming this little group, most of the members here have tried to kill themselves for most of the stupidest reasons I can think off. You're fucking children- but no, you damn kids wanted things your way. Now look at yourselves- no better off than where you have started. In fact- some of you guys are worst off.", I explain to her. "How are we worse off?", Jaunita asks before any other could. "Oh, lets see... Between you and Denise- I count 9 abortions. I swear, you two will be lucky to have babies when you get older.", I started to tell them. "But yet, instead of having your boyfriends having to deal with this mess- you guys had me to do it for them. Now- because of that- the guys don't trust me even though I have saved their butts on more than one occasion." "But...", Juanita started to say. "But what- you did not wanted them to know? Then tell me why you told Kevin that you were pregnant all those times before you got an abortion. And then afterwards, telling him that you got an abortion- how many times the guys had to deal with the emotional wreck that he was. Then finding out that I was somehow involved, even though all I did was to pick you up and take you home because of some stupid state law to prevent you from killing yourself..." I waited for a second to see if anyone would intervein, but no one did, so I continued with my rant, "I swear Jaunita, What have I gotten out of all this? Or you Denise- to have so many abortions because you got pregnant from so many guys. Hell, I'm the only one that you have not had sex with, girl..." "Oh, is that it? You want sme of my pussy!??", Denise yells back. "Please Bitch- I would not touch your hole with somebody else's dick...", I tell her back. "Oh- that is not how you are sounding...", Denise yells back. "For me there is a lot more to sex than just sticking my dick in you. There is that emotional bond to be shared- something that I want but is so hard to get. But if you want to just lay there and have some guy stick his thing in and out of you- that's your business. I want something more that that. And with the exception of a few here- only Cathy has given that to me. But yet you want that denied from me. Why? Tell me Denise- Why?", I tell her, getting louder with each word at the end. I then take my arm off my eyes, and open them up, denying the pain from getting any attention from me. I slowly reach up, grabbing the top rung of the life guard chair's frame with both hands. I squeeze it tightly in my grasp. "Hell, sometimes I wonder if the rumours of you fucking your brother are true- not that it is any of my business... I've known too many brother/sister overly sexually active lovers in my life time, but if it is true- then you treat me worse than you do your own brother, when brothers and sisters tend to fight a lot." I then slowly start to pull myself up, arching my back for a moment, then spring myself upwards in a somersault while holding on and land on the top rung of the life guard chair's frame. "You just don't understand what is in my mind or what it is that I want. But instead, all you care about is to deny me everything and then call yourself my friend? Shit- I sure hate to be your enemy.", I stated before diving over the girls who were sitting on top, grabbing the top rung on the opposite site and hand spring off the frame before taking a long quiet walk away from them. "What was that all about?", Denise stated. "If you don't know by now- then you are a lost cause.", Jaunita (Gloria) stated. "Its not about sex. Its about love and respect and understanding- something you have gotten this group to deny me until he stepped in to correct that. But now I see that he did not ended it for me, but had it moved onto him and get the brunt of it for the rest of time.", Cathy stated. "In short- he has no friends here with us... and everything we wanted from him he gave willingly and without question. But now it seems to him that he's been jumping through hoops like some lion in a circus show- and for what? To get a chair jabbed at him? To get a whip cracked at his face? I can now see why he's so pissed off with everyone lately.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. She then turned to look through the life guard chair's frame to see how far away I was from the group. She then slowly got up and darted out to catch up to me. Cathy also tried to follow, but Jaunita (Gloria) shouts at her to stay where she was. "If I'm not going, nobody else is..." , Cathy can be heard telling the others. Jaunita(Gloria) called to me as she ran to catch up with me. Eventually she manages to get in front of me and stops, panting for air as she tries to talk to me. "Fernando... just stop for a moment... please... hear me out...", she says as she starts to walk backwards in front of me. For a moment, I stop. "You got two seconds...", I tell her. "Look- Fernando, we're sorry for that's been happenning, and now realize why you are so, well... mean.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "Oh yeah? Explain it to me then, because I do not know any more.", I tell her. "Alright then...", she says as she finally cathes her breathe, "Most of us have been using you, and now you are tired of it..." "No- I have been tired of it for a long time.", I tell her. "But that is it...", she started to say. "You're missing the point.", I tell her. "But that is the only point there is.", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "How about trying, 'When you use somebody, you treat that person like shit...' Catherine knows how it is. So does my daughter Rachel- they both were raped multiple times, you think that their rapists gave them any love or kindness or repect? No- they treated them like shit to get what they wanted, even if they had to use force to get it.", I explain to her. Jaunita(Gloria) bites on her lower lip for a second, before responding, "But we never done that to you?" "Oh really? How about- thanks to me, everybody there is getting their diplomas in a couple of weeks, except for me? Who has stood up for me in all this? Who's making the sacrifice here, and who's being treated like shit- like if it was all my fault?", I explain to her in questions. Jaunita(Gloria) tries to answer, but cant, for not being able to find one amoung the words in her head. "Or how about what I said about the abortions?", I added. "You did not had to do that with me...", she meekly stated. "I did with Cathy, and there was a couple of times that you even looked down upon me for doing them the favor of taking them home... A fucking favor- damn it!", I tell her. "I'm sorry for acting that way towards you then...", she started to say. "Aint it a bit late- months and maybe even a year late? Damn it, Jaunita- you're missing the point.", I tell her. "Then what is the point?", Jaunita(Gloria) asks. "How about thinking about Cathy's wedding day.", I ask. "You left us that day! I had to deal with Catherine crying because of it!", she said. "So... how about the few moments before?", I ask. "What the fuck are you talking about?", she asks . "The time where you laid on the bed with your legs openned and wanted to insure that I would do as I promised- by having sex with me...", I started to explain, "Or the times when Cathy tried to shoot herself with my gun that disappeared a long time ago, and it is wasn't for luck or skill on my part on disarming it- you and her would be in jail right now answering to my death...", I tell her. "Fernando....", Jaunita(Gloria) started to say. "Fernando- nothing...", I tell her back, "Whether you know it or not, your actions speak louder than your words, and they speak the same thing that the others have been doing to me. Quite frankly, Girl- I don't care of you got on your knees right now and sucked my dick to make it all up to me, because I'm at the point where I do not care anymore. Chalk up the losses and get out while I still can. Find new friends and lets see how the rest of my life turns out. You understand that?", I tell her. "You don't mean that...", she said. "Oh yeah? Try getting into my head and find out.", I challenge her. "You know I cant do that... you locked me out.", Jaunita(Gloria) tells me. "Then there is your answe......NNHG!!!", I started to say before clutching at my temples tightly. I go down on my knees, before passing out. Jaunita(Gloria) tries to catch me on the way down, but I'm too heavy for her to support, and she sits down, holding me on her lap. She checks my ears and nose- finding them bloody. "No no no no no...", she keeps repeating to herself as she finds blood where she ckecks, then goes to open my eye lids and finds my eyes heavily blood shot. "...No, it cant be! Not here, Not Now!", she says to herself. Jaunita approaches to us, finding Jaunita(Gloria) not wanting to accept what was happening. "I knew there was a weakness to his sheild somewhere...", Jaunita said to herself as she knelt down to us. "You did this?!!", Jaunita(Gloria) yells at him. "Yes I did. Frankly I was getting tired of his arrogance and braggart ways.", Jaunita says to her calmly, almost proudly. Jaunita(Gloria) reaches out suddenly and slaps Jaunita as hard as she could, sending Jaunita to fall back away from her though she catches herself from falling. "YOU MAY HAVE KILLED HIM! HOW MUCH FORCE DID YOU USE?!!", Jaunita(Gloria) yells back at her. "Oh, so... you're defennd him now?", Jaunita asks mockingly. "HE DEFENDED US, WOMAN!", Jaunita(Gloria) yells back at her. "HOW MUCH FORCE DID YOU USE ON HIM?", Jaunita(Gloria) saids as she reaches out Jaunita and grabs a fist full of t-shirt. The others run to us, Cathy leading the way, followed by Denise and then the rest of the girls. The guys unaware of the events, casually walk to us. Cathy and Denise take their sides besides their best friends- and next to each other. Grace and the girls stood behind Jaunita(Gloria), looking down at us, remaining quiet for the moment. Both Denise and Cathy put their arms between them to pull them apart, though struggle hard to get them separated as the two Jaunitas continued argueing. "So Why You're Defending Him? Hmm... Huh? I'm Waiting for an answer- Or is it The Obivous One That You And Him Fucked Each Other And Done So Often!", Jaunita shouted back at her. "Wouldn't You Want To Know!", Jaunita(Gloria) shouted back her answer. "What is it with You and Cathering Protecting him? His Dick Can Move In Certain Way Once Its Inside Your pussies Or Something? I Want to know!", Jaunita yells back at her, mocking her with every word. "He fucking deserves what I did and more!", she adds. "I SHOULD FRY YOUR BRAINS OUT FOR THAT, BITCH!", Jaunita(Gloria) yells out. Upon hearing those words- Both Cathy and Denise pull out from between them and pounce back a couple of feet. For a moment the beach went dead silent, with only the crashing waves and the flying gulls can be heard. Kevin sneaks up behind Jaunita and lifts her by the shoulders to carry her away a few feet from Jaunita(Gloria) and I. John follows and bends down on his knees to examine me. He reached under me and tries to lift me up, doing so but having a hard time with it. Denise follows them as Jaunita can be heard kicking and screaming. "Damn you Gutch- You're not even 1/2 my size, yet you're as heavy as I am.", he says to himself. As he gets up, Cathy gets in front of Jaunita(Gloria), taking her hands and tried to help her get up. Jaunita(Gloria) relunctantly gets up with Cathy. "You're not going to fry anyone brains, not now, not ever...", Cathy says to her. "You're not going to stop me...", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "As long as I stand in front of you where you cant see her- you cant do it.", Cathy tells her. "Don't force me Catherine... You saw what she did...", Jaunita(Gloria) stated to her. "No, I did not see a thing-", Cathy started to say, "to me it seemed like Fernando got another one of his bloody headaches..." "It was not one of his headaches- That bitch admits that she did it!", Jaunita(Gloria) "But Jaunita(Gloria)- With you and him connected, couldn't you tell what happened?", Cathy asks. "No- he has locked me out, which is good because if we were connected, I too would have been hit with what he got...", Jaunita(Gloria) "Look... you are not going to do anything to Jaunita...", Cathy tells her sternly, "You owe me, and I'm calling you on it- so don't!" "And if I do...", Jaunita(Gloria) tells her. "Look you- Jaunita, Denise and the rest of us may not be on the best of terms, but Fernando has worked hard to at least get us to respect each other as friends. Argee with it or not, but I'm telling Jaun... If something happens to her from anything you do- then we as friends are through. Do I make myself clear?", Cathy tells her. Jaunita(Gloria) does not answer immediately. "Do... I... Make... Myself... Clear?", Cathy stated as she poked her finger at Jaunita(Gloria) chest, above her breast with each word. Jaunita(Gloria) clutches at where Cathy poked her with both hands, "Alright! You Made Yourself Clear! Don't You Know That Hurts!" "That's why I do it...", Cathy stated. Then Cathy looks around and see Denise in the same position she was in- winning an argument with the other Jaunita. John has set me down on the towels that made up the camp, and then sat down where I was sitting before, waiting for the others to return. "Girls...", Cathy stated to Debbie and Rachel, "...if she moves, you got my permission to tackle her or bite her ankles or anything to keep her from moving from this spot." "Eww.... She's all skin and bones...", Rachel says... "Just barbeque her like everyone else...", Debbie stated." "You two cant be serious...", Jaunita(Gloria) says as she turns to see them. "Like father, like daughters... you know that Fernando's a carnivore...", Cathy stated, "I would not be surprised if they had a taste of human flesh..." "Now I know you're joking...", Jaunita(Gloria) stated. "She too boney to even barbeque...", Rachel stated. "Cut it out girls, you're making her nervous...", Grace stated to them. Cathy gets up and starts walking to Kevin, Denise and Jaunita. Keeping herself an arm's length distance away from Jaunita, Cathy lets herself known, "I know you're not a telepath, so start explaining how you delievered a brain blast without the rest of us sensing it?" "She did it through witchcraft- Denise stated. "That makes it worse..." , Cathy stated, "He's supposed to be protected from magic." "He is." Juanita stated. "Then explain how you did it.", Cathy tells her. "Oh, like what are you going to do- you have no powers...", Jaunita stated. The wind begins to get a little stronger, and the sand slowly moves up on its own and covers Jaunita's feet. Jaunita looks around and at the sand gathered her feet, then finally at Denise- who points at her self and shakes her head as to say, "No, its not me..." "Don't tempt me...", Cathy stated, taking a sigh before continuing. The winds die down and the sand falls back onto the floor, as she adds. "Now, you're going to undo what you did, or you are going to have to deal with me. Let her go, Kevin." Kevin lets her go. "And if I refuse...", Jaunita stated to see the answer. "Then I don't want to ever see you again...", Cathy stated as she stepped up to her to show the changes of the colours of her eyes to a near bright blue. "Is that a threat?...", Jaunita added. "I don't threaten...", Cathy stated, adding as she pointed to my direction, "Now Go..." Jaunita stands her ground, waiting to see when Cathy would put her arm down, if ever. In turn, Cathy stares back at her. #

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