No Coincidence Part 8

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Woody, who was in the kitchen, grabbed a glass out of the cupboard and filled his glass with orange juice which he had taken out of the refrigerator.

The bay window from the kitchen faced the back of the house. There was a beautiful view of the beach and Woody watched it out of the corner of his eye while he drank his juice. Someone running toward the beach caught his attention. He put the glass on the counter and took a closer look. It was Khori running to someone whom he couldn’t see.

He quickly ran to the nearby double doors to see what was going on. He opened them and the doors slammed behind him. Woody’s glass was near the edge of the counter, therefore when the door slammed, the glass fell off the counter and shattered on the floor.

Nokio was awakened by a rush of bone-chilling water, that came over him as he laid on the beach. He was startled, because he had forgotten what happened. Just then, Khori approached him and grabbed him by his arm and dragged him away from the waves.

“Are you alright?” Khori asked Nokio.

“Nooooo.” He moaned.

Just then, Woody came behind Khori and when he found out that it was Nokio, he ran and he knelt beside him, where he was laying on the beach.

“Nokio? Khori? What’s going on?”

Khori explained everything to Woody and Nokio started shivering.

“We gotta get him in the house!” Khori said.

Woody put Nokio’s arm around his neck and he lifted him up. Nokio walked a little with Woody,and then he started to stumble.

“You need some help?” Khori asked Woody.

“Nah…I got him.” Woody responded somewhat out of breath.
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Sisqo had heard the glass shatter from his position on the couch. He couldn’t make it in to his room, because he was so tired from partying last night. He sat up on the couch and he let out a yawn.

He wanted to see what all the commotion was, so he walked to the kitchen. When he noticed all the glass on the floor, he heard the double doors open. He looked up and saw Woody walking with Nokio and Khori right behind him.

Woody placed Nokio on a nearby chair inside the kitchen. Nokio had a dazed look in his eyes.

Sisqo was wide awake after seeing this.

“What’s going on?” Sisqo asked.

“I don’t know…Nokio what’s up man?”Woody asked.

“I took some pills….” Nokio mumbled.

“Man, speak up?” Sisqo said.

“I took some pills!”

“What pills?” Woody asked.

“Sleeping…”

“You took some sleeping pills? How many?” Khori asked.

“Three..” Nokio mumbled and his eyes started getting heavy.

“Wake up!” Sisqo said as he started to slap Nokio on his face.

“We gotta get him to the hospital!” Khori said.

“Call 9-1-1!” Woody said.
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“He’s alright. He didn’t take enough to really do damage. We gave him something to help him. We also have a counselor talking to him right now.” The doctor said. He was talking about Nokio’s condition.

“Oh thank God!” Kenneth said.

Kenneth, Khori, Woody, Sisqo, and Jazz were sitting in the waiting room of the hospital. Scola had just came in to catch the end of what the doctor said.

“He needs more than a counselor!” Sisqo said under his breath.

“Aww come on man! Don’t even start that mess. He could’ve died!” Jazz said.

“Sorry.” Sisqo replied.

“So he’s okay? Sorry I’m late.” Scola said. Khori rolled her eyes at him.

“Yeah, man.” Kenneth said.

Khori made it her business not to respond smartly. She just looked the other way.

“Where in the world were you?” Sisqo asked.

Scola glanced at Khori. “I just had a long night.”

Khori knew he was staring at her, but she didn’t give in.

“Mr. Ruffin is taking visitors now.” The nurse said to them.

“Cool.” Woody said.

They decided to let Khori and Woody go to visit Nokio first.

He was propped up on a couple of pillows when they both entered the room.

“Oh hey! Whatsup ya’ll.” Nokio said.

“Well…you look one hundred percent better!” Khori said.

“I feel better too! Thanks for helping me!” Nokio said to Khori.

“No problem!”

“You’re talking to me, really helped me to see that it’s not all about me!”

“Umm hmmm….” Khori smiled.

Nokio held out his arms for her to give him a hug.

“I now know what I really need to do.” Nokio said.

“What’s that?” Khori asked.

“Woody, get all the fellas! I’m going to really talk to ya’ll today!”

“But I don’t know if they’ll let everyone in---“

“I don’t care! I need to speak to all of ya’ll!”

“Well…okay.”

Woody went to get the rest of the fellas minus Kenneth. Khori left the room, avoiding eye-contact with Scola, who was staring at her.
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Later on that evening, everybody, minus Nokio, were at the wedding rehearsals. Sisqo and Jazz were talking to the members of the band who were going to play at the wedding and provide the music for their performance.

Kenneth and Khori were sitting at a table with the future bride and groom, Adriana and Phillip. They were ecstatic that Dru Hill were performing at their wedding.

“This is best wedding gift I could ever get!” Adriana said.

“It will be definitely something to remember!” Phillip said.

Khori was happy she could help her friend out and that the fellas agreed.

“Thank Kenneth and the fellas! They said ‘yes’. I just asked!” Khori laughed.

“A million thank you’s!” Phillip said.

“No problem! I’m always willing to help!” Kenneth smiled.

Just then, Adriana’s friend Judy came running toward their table.

“We got some bad news!” She said.

“What?” Adriana said excitedly.

“Shelli is sick! She has strep throat and she won’t be able to make it to the wedding tomorrow!”

“Nooo! We can’t have a lop-sided wedding party!” Adriana said as she buried her head in her hands.

“Sorry Addie!” Judy said.

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“I need to stop being so selfish! I hope she gets well!” Adriana said.

Phillip was eyeing Khori and he looked at Adriana. “What about Khori?”

“Khori?” Adriana asked. “But we don’t have time to make another dress—“

“Khori, what size do you wear?” Judy asked.

“Last time I checked, it was a size fourteen.”

Adriana looked at Judy. “Doesn’t Shelli wear that size?”

“I don’t know, but I’ll call and check.” Judy said as she excused herself to call Shelli.

“It would be so nice if you could be in the wedding!” Adriana said.

Khori smiled.

“She wears a size twelve, but I’m still going to get that dress so we can see if Khori can wear it!” Judy said.

“I don’t know about a size twelve.” Khori said.

“You never know….you may have lost some weight!” Adriana joked.

“Well, I seem a little light-headed!” Khori joked as she looked at Kenneth. He laughed.

“I told you they were going to get on your nerves!” Kenneth said.

“That’s an understatement!” Khori said as she looked in Scola’s direction and rolled her eyes.

Kenneth laughed.

Adriana and Phillip looked in the direction of Khori’s eyes. Scola saw everyone at Khori’s table staring at him except for her.

“You like him don’t you?” Adriana said.

“What makes you think that?” Khori said.

“I know my girl! I’ve known you since we were six and I know what it means when you roll your eyes!”

“I don’t like him!” Khori said as sucked her teeth.

Adriana shook her head. “You got it baaaaaaaad!” She joked and Kenneth and Phillip laughed.

Khori rolled her eyes at Adriana and smiled. She caught Scola approaching their table out of the corner of her eye.

She excused herself from the table when Scola was a few steps from their table.
“Where are you going?” Adriana joked.

“Running away?” Phillip joked.

Khori waved at them as stepped away from the table. She was heading in the opposite direction that Scola was coming from.
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Scola noticed when Khori got up from the table. He quickened his pace and walked past the table where Kenneth. Phillip and Adriana were sitting.

They all noticed when Scola passed their table.

“He got it bad too!” Phillip joked. Kenneth and Adriana bursted out in laughter.

“Khori, Khori!” Scola called her name. He quickened his pace and she quickened her pace trying to avoid talking to him.

Khori turned around to face Scola. She just stared at him.

“When are you gonna talk to me?”

“I don’t have anything to say to you!”

“We need to talk, Khori!” Scola said.

Khori rolled her eyes and put her hand up to his face to dismiss him. She walked away.

Scola didn’t go after her this time. “I’m about to give up!” He said to himself, as he looked at Khori as she walked away.
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Khori looked at herself in the full length mirror at one of the back rooms in the church. She was shocked to fit into Shelli’s dress. Well it really wasn’t a dress, it was a two pieces skirt and top. It was nice, not one of those horrible dresses you could only wear once in your life, she thought to herself.

The top was sleeveless and it was silver. The skirt was a long flowing silver skirt that stopped right and her ankles. She couldn’t believe that this outfit fit her so perfectly. “Not another coincidence!” She laughed to herself.

She looked at her human hair individual were pinned up into a french roll with a couple of pieces curled in the front, framing her face. She had a white lilly pinned in her hair.

She looked at her made up face. She looked like a model! She thought to herself. Khori started dancing in the mirror and it caught Adriana’s eye while she was looking in her mirror on the opposite side of the room.

“Girl, what are you doing?” Adriana joked.

“I didn’t know you were watching me!” Khori laughed.

“Don’t think you look better than me! This is my wedding day, ya know!”

“Of course not! You look beautiful!” Khori said as she walked over to Adriana who was looking in the mirror at her off the shoulder white wedding dress.

“I’m so happy! But it would’ve been even better if my two best friends were in my wedding!” Adriana said.

“I know! But it was such short notice for Tamara! But she’ll be down to visit soon!”

“Yeah! I gotta send her the tape or she’s gonna whup me!” Adriana joked.

“Aww you look sooooooo beautiful!” Khori said as she and Adriana hugged.

“I never thought this day would happen! You know how I didn’t wanna ever get married!”

“That’s right! I remember!” Khori laughed.

“We need Miss Khori!” Adriana’s mother said as she peeked her head in the door.

“Well…ok!” Khori said as she smiled at Adriana and left out of the room.
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The wedding was splendid. Dru Hill had just performed their songs for Adriana and Phillip and it was the dj’s turn to take over.

Scola had noticed how great Khori looked in that dress and how the make-up made her even more beautiful than usual. He was singing all those songs to her, whether she knew it or not.

Woody and Khori were dancing on the dance floor to Maxwell’s "Acsension", when Scola saw them. He was sitting at the table with Sisqo, Jazz and Nokio.

“Are you still looking at that Khori?” Jazz asked Scola.

“What?….huh?…Nah!” Scola stuttered.

“You are off the hook!” Sisqo joked.

Scola rolled his eyes at Sisqo and Jazz. “Whatever!” He responded.

“Well….on the next slow song, why don’t you ask her to dance?” Sisqo said.

Scola frowned. “I don’t think Woody would like that. Seems to me they’re havin’ a lot of fun on the dance floor.”

They all took a look at Khori holding Woody’s hand while he turned around.

“Even rhythmless Woody looks good dancing with Khori!” Jazz joked. They all laughed.
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Khori and Woody were having fun, goofing off on the dance floor. He dipped Khori back and almost lost his grip.

“Woody, man, if you drop me on this floor…!”

Woody quickly pulled her up and set her straight up. “Sorry, I got a little carried away!” He laughed.

“I’m sweating! I need some water!” Woody said.

“Me too! You wore me out!” Khori joked.

They all headed to the bar and both asked for bottled waters. Maxwell’s song was about to end before they stepped off the dance floor.

Meanwhile, Scola was sitting at the table plotting whether or not to take Sisqo’s advice and ask Khori to dance. He wanted it to be the right song.

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Gloria and Doreen showed up at their table. Gloria had on a dark blue taffeta off the shoulder dress that hit all her curves in the right place. She had her long weave pinned into a bun. Doreen’s milky white skin was glowing. She had her short blonde hair curly and she had a pink pant suit on.

“What’s up fellas?” Doreen asked.

“Oh we cool!” Sisqo said. He couldn’t help looking at the way Gloria’s chest was bursting through her dress.

“Hey, Scola!” Gloria said as she grabbed his hand, that was laying on the table, and gently squeezed it.

Scola, who was in deep thought, looked up to see who was squeezing his hand and all he saw was Gloria’s chest busting through her dress.

“Oh heeeeeeyyy!!”Scola said.

“The hoochie of the year award is on the other side of the street!” Jazz said smartly.

“You know you like my dress, Jazz!” Gloria said sarcastically.

“Hmmmm…” Nokio smirked.

“Anyway! Does anyone want anything to drink? We are heading to the bar.”

“You can pick me up a grapefruit juice! Thanks!” Scola said and he smiled.

“Anything for you, boo! Anybody else?”

“Nah.” Jazz responded.

“No thanks!” Sisqo responded.

Nokio responded by holding up his half-full water bottle.

“Ok.” Doreen said.

“Oh and the’re not surving alcohol here!” Nokio shouted to them as they walked away from the table.

“Thank God! Especially for someone in your condition. You definitely don’t need any temptation!” Sisqo said to Nokio.

Jazz laughed.

“If I really wanted something to drink, I can go next door! I ain’t going there homie!” Nokio responded.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Sisqo joked and he smiled. “I was just playing man!”

Nokio rolled his eyes and drank down the rest of his water.
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Khori was sitting at the bar beside Woody and they were just finishing the last of their water, when Gloria and Doreen stepped up to the bar.

“Hey Woody, Hey Khori.” Doreen said.

“Hey!” Both Woody and Khori responded to Doreen.

Gloria rolled her eyes and didn’t even look Woody and Khori’s way.

“Well, hello to you miss Gloria. You look hot today!” Woody said.

“Oh hey Woody.” Gloria said faintly.

Khori shook her head and didn’t say anything to Gloria.

Gloria ordered Scola’s grapefruit juice and ordered a pepsi for herself.

Doreen ordered a ginger ale. After she ordered, Gloria pulled her to the side, away from Khori and Woody.

“You got the goods?” Gloria whispered to Doreen.

“Yeah…but what are you going to do with it?” Doreen asked her.

“Put it in his drink?”

“What? But why?”

“Because, Scola has been ignoring me every since he and Khori got into that heated argument. I’ve been throwing myself on him and he has turned me away. Girl, I gotta have some more of him! It’s like an addiction. Once he got me that one time, I wanted more!”

“I hope you know what you are doing!” Doreen sighed.

“Girl, don’t worry about it! Now, where is it? Gloria cried.

“Here girl!” Doreen said as she shook her head and dropped one pill into her hand.

“That’s it?”

“No, I have three, but---“

“You don’t plan on using them, do you?”

“No, but—“

“Just give me all three!”

Doreen gave her a probing look. “Why do you need all three? You said you were only going to need one.”

“Just in case---“

“Just in case, what?”

“Just give them to me!” Gloria said with frustration in her voice.

Doreen put the other two pills in her hand. If something happens bad to Scola, she thought, she could never live with herself.
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Woody and Khori were still at the bar chatting when Tony Terry’s song “With You” started to play.

“Oh that was my song!” Woody said.

“Yeah…that’s such a beautiful song.” Khori said.

Just then Khori felt a light tap on her shoulder. When she turned around it was Scola. She noted how fine he was looking in his white Coogi sweater and black slacks.

“Excuse me, but can I have this dance?” Scola asked Khori.

Khori looked at Woody and then back at Scola. “I don’t know Scola.”

“Go ahead! You know you wanna!” Woody said and he smiled.

Khori took a deep breath and exhaled. She then swallowed what seemed like a lump in her throat. She looked back at Scola. He was looking at her like he could see right through her.

“Okay.” Khori said as she grabbed Scola’s hand and he gently glided her to the dance floor.

The moment was kind of akward for the both of them, because they had not talked to each other in a few days. Except for those few words at the wedding rehearsal.

They were far apart from each other when the first started to dance, but as they started to relax, they came closer to each other.

Scola pulled Khori gently to him, and when she didn’t resist, he pulled her as close as she would come.

Khori felt relaxed in Scola’s embrace, and they were in step with the beat of the song.

When Scola started to sing to her, she thought she was going to lose her mind.

“When I’m with you, It’s for real, what I feel, when I’m with you.” Scola sang lightly into her ear.

Khori lost her step with the beat and step on Scola’s toe.

“I’m sorry! You’re singing kinda took me off guard.” Khori whispered in his ear.

“That’s okay.” He whispered back to her.

They both got back in step of the beat, and Scola was feeling really comfortable with Khori. Her perfume was putting a spell on him and he liked it. The warmth of her body made him want her even more. He was gonna do it! He was going to kiss her and see how she would react. Now or never, he thought to himself.
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“Awww look at Scola and Khori!” Nokio said to Jazz who was sitting next to him at their table. Sisqo had found a young lady to dance with.

“Awww they look so lovely!” Jazz joked.

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Gloria was fired up when she saw how Khori and Scola were dancing.

“One way or another, I’m going to get my man tonight!” She thought to herself. She decided she would drop all three pills in Scola’s drink instead of one.
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Woody was making his way over to Jazz’s and Nokio’s table when he saw Gloria stirring Scola’s drink.

“Why is she stirring his drink?” Woody thought to himself. It seemed kinda odd for someone to be stirring some grapefruit juice.

“Hey Woody! Could you put Scola’s juice at his seat, please?” Gloria purred.

“Oh yeah!” Woody said. He grabbed the drink and smelled it. It was the wrong move for him, because he hated grapefruit. He also observed it to see if anything was in it.

“Dang man! You sure enough observing that juice!” Jazz said.

“I’m just being careful!” Woody said as he put Scola’s drink at his place at the table.

“I hope nothing happens with this juice.” Woody thought to himself.

Scola pulled Khori closer to him and he dipped his head low enough for his lips to brush hers. When she didn’t resist he intensified his kiss.

The song went off and “Happy” by Surface started playing. Khori pulled away from Scola’s embrace. She started to blush.

“Sorry if I came on too strong.” Scola said.

“Oh, it’s ok.”

“Thanks for the dance.”

“Your welcome.”

When Khori looked around, she saw Adrianna and the rest of her bridesmaids smiling at her. More people starting coming to the dance floor, so Khori made a beeline to Adrianna and her bridesmaids table, leaving Scola on the dance floor, pondering what just happened.
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Scola had drank down his grapefruit juice in a couple of gulps.

“Wow…I needed that!” he said.

“Ya’ll was hot and heavy on the dance floor.” Woody said.

“Yeah, I know!”

Woody was still eyeing Scola juice suspiciously, even as he drank it down. He didn’t know why he was so worried.

“You wanna dance, Scola?” Gloria said as she approached their table.

“Yeah sure.” Scola said. He looked toward where Khori was sitting and she had her back turned to the dance floor.

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“Look at that hoochie mama all over your future baby’s daddy!” Adrianna joked to Khori.

“wh***!” Khori said as she looked at Gloria pushing herself onto Scola.

“That’s a shame!” Judy said. Adrianna laughed.

“Dang! She got it like that? Ol’ boy is not keeping up with the beat!”Adrianna said.

“But he was keeping up with me.” Khori said as she watched Scola stumble a little as he and Gloria danced to The Deele’s “Two Occasions.”

Scola was acting kinda odd. Even his facial expression kinda hardened. “I wonder what load of bull she is feeding him.” Khori thought to herself.

Scola was feeling strange. He was feeling like he was high, higher than high, and he was becoming extremely horny. The nasty things that Gloria was whispering in his ear, didn’t help matters.

“Won’t we just go back to the house and handle our business?” Gloria said to him.

“Ok.” He replied.
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Gloria went to Doreen who was holding her purse. She was sitting in between Nokio and Jazz at their table.

“Can you hand me my purse. We are going to make a quick run to the house.” Gloria said.

“What are ya’ll up to?” Jazz asked her.

“You know! The usual.”

Scola just smiled and waved goodbye as they made their way out of the reception hall.

“Now that was weird!” Nokio said. “That dude looked every bit of high and I know he don’t do drugs!”
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Khori was talking so much with Adrianna and her friend, Judy, that she didn’t notice when Gloria and Scola left.

Her conversation was interrupted by another tap on the shoulder. This time, it was Sisqo.

“Yo girlie! Your cell phone was ringing at the house, I couldn’t located it. So I think you need to check it out.”

“Oh okay! Thanks. I’ll go now.”

Khori excused herself and exited the reception hall. She was glad that the house they were staying in was only a couple of blocks away from the hall.

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Gloria was trying her best to seduce Scola. It was working, but then he messed up. He called her Khori.

“Khori! I ain’t no Khori!”

“What? My bad!” Scola said huskily. He was about ready to go himself.

“You can have your d*** Khori!” Gloria said angrily as she put her dress back on and stormed out of his room.

As she came out of his room, she and Khori met ran into each other.

“You can have your man!” Gloria spat and he hurried away from Khori.

“Well dag! What is going on?” Khori thought to herself.

Scola’s bedroom door was open so she peeked in. Scola was sitting in a chair, dripping with sweat. He also sounded like he was trying to catch his breath.
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“Are you ok?” She whispered.

“I’m feeling kinda sick! I’m going to lay down.” Scola responded.

Khori watched as Scola got out of the chair and stumbled into the bed.

“What in the world? She thought to herself. She had never seen Scola act so strange.

Scola started to moan and he laid flat on his back. Khori noticed that Scola had no shirt on and the belt of his back slacks were unbuckled.

He looked so helpless. Maybe he got food poisoning or something, she thought to herself.

She ran to the bathroom and wet a hand towel so that would maybe cool him down a little.

She pressed the cool hand towel to his face and upper body.

“Thank you. I don’t know what’s wrong!” He moaned.

‘You’ll be okay!”

Just then, a cell phone rang. It was on the other side of the bed on the dresser. She couldn’t reach it so she decided to climb over Scola to grab it, so she could see who it was.

She gently, but quickly, place one leg over Scola so she wouldn’t touch him. But when she started to lift the other leg to completely clear him, he grabbed it.

“Let my leg go Scola! I gotta get the phone! Stop playing!”

“I ain’t letting go of your leg, Miss Khori!” He said seductively.

“Let go!” Khori said trying to wiggle her way out of his grip.

“Umm…ummm…no.” Scola said as he pulled both of her legs closer to him, so she was in a position she didn’t wanna be in.

She felt something underneath her and she knew it wasn’t a roll of quarters or nickels.

She felt violated. By now Scola had sat up and his face was right against hers. He wanted to kiss her, but she turned her face and he kissed her cheek.

She looked into his eyes. This was not the same Scola that was dancing with her at the reception, this Scola had evil in his eyes. Khori was frightened. What if somebody came in here and seen her in this position, the door was wide open. What would they think of her? She thought to herself.

She felt Scola planting kisses on her neck. She felt disguisted. She decided that she was gonna fight him. Yeah, she was scared, but she wasn’t going out like a punk.

“Stop it Scola! This is not funny!”

“Who said it was?” He said smartly.

She tried again to fight her way out of the grips that he had on her legs. She pushed him and started screaming for help.

Scola didn’t like the fact that she was fighting him. He was horny and he wanted a release.

“Stop fighting ME!” he said.

When she didn’t listen, he got angry and pushed her off of him. Khori was laying on her back on the bed, and she was trying to slide away when Scola grabbed one arm and then the other. He had her pinned to the bed and she couldn’t move.

“I TOLD YOU NOT TO FIGHT ME!” He shouted.

Even as she looked in his eyes, she knew that wasn’t the real him. She also knew he didn’t get high. He was looking like a druggie in his face.

Khori tried to get free, but she couldn’t. She felt he had the strength of three He-Man’s holding her down.

She did the only thing she knew to do, she prayed.

“Lord please don’t let him rape me! Please!” She said with her eyes clothes and tears streaming down her face.




[glow=pink,2,300]No Concidence Chapter 9 and Conclusion coming soon![/glow]

[CarolinaCutie]

Whoaaaaaaaaaa!!! That's some mess there! Dang, I hate I have to be held in suspense...I wanna know what's gonna happen next! Great stuff, girly!

[VirgosAngel19]

You know what, that Gloria chick done worked my last nerve. And to pull some mess like that. And damn if it aint messed up that Scola and Khori end up in that situation. Hope they can work it out.