Lilly leaned in slightly and gives me a kiss on the top of the head. I look up at her and she smiles. “Hey there.” She says cheerfully.



“Hey yourself.” I say. The two of us had been cuddled together thatching TV for a while now. Lilly laid with back with her arm around me and I stayed snuggled up to her chest. “You excited for tonight? I am.”



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The party






Lena was having one of her big parties at her house, I hadn’t known Lena for very long so this was the first one I got invited to

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Lilly met me at the door and leads me upstairs “it’ll be great honey

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Intro part 3




I dreamt that I was a baby.

I was helpless leopard kitten. Only able to make loud mewing noises to beg for help from those around. But I felt safe, someone was holding me in a loving embrace.

I open my eyes and the Dryad’s loving smile filled my vision. A wave of panic flowed through me. I had to protect her, how could I protect her if I was a baby?

That night I dreamt that I was a predator.

I was a huge leopard, powerful but undetectable while I moved through the low hanging mist in pursuit of my prey.

I peer through a bush that bordered the clearing my target was in, laying in the center of the clearing was a young Dryad. The sun shone through the trees and bathed her body in a yellowish glow.

I crouched slightly and waited for something to happen. I watched the dr

Intro




I sit down at one of the twenty public computers available at the Internet café and log onto my seller’s account at Bazzar online while my best friend Mark pulls up a chair.

“So what’s so special about this bid anyway?” Mark asks sitting down next to me.

“I got a bunch of trading cards from this old man for only a hundred fifty.” I