WITHOUT FURTHER WARNING,CLAE GRABBED LAURI’S HAIR AND PULLED.THEN SHE LANDED
         
         AND OPEN-PALMED SLAP DIRECTLY ACROSS LAURI’S CHEEK.THE SLAP WAS HEARD
         
         BY EVERY PERSON.TEARS POURED LIKE A RIVER DOWN LAURI’S CHEEKS.CLAE LOOKED
         
         AT LAURI’S EYESS,DARING HER TO MEET HER STARE.LAURI LOOKED UP AND MET
         
         CLAE’S EYES,WHICH WERE NOT ALMOST BLACK.LAURI LOOKED DOWN SILENTLY AND WENT
         
         BEHIND THE ROCK WITH HER CLOTHES.
         
         CLAE HAD HER COMPOSURE BACK IN TEN SECONDS.ALTHOUGH SHE WAS STILL SHAKING

         WILDLY,HER EYES WERE CLEAR AND WIDE.SHE LOOKED DOWN AT HER HANDS AS IF

         WONDERING HOW THEY COULD HAVE DONE THAT.SUDDENLY WITH A GLANCE AT TRACI,

         CLAE COLLAPSED.
         
         
         
         
         
            DRAKE WATCHED IN FASCINATION AS CLAE OUTWITTED LAURI,AND THEN BAM!
         
         HE WAS SURE LAURI WOULD THINK NEXT TIME.IT STILL AMAZED HIM HOW TOUGH
         
         TRACI AND CLAE WERE.THEN TO HIS HORROR HE SAW CLAE COLLAPSE.HE WAS THE
         
         FIRST ONE BY HER SIDE AND PICKED UP HER BODY LIKE IT WAS A FEATHER.SHE
         
         WAS SUPRISINGLY LIGHT.HE SPRINTED ACROSS THE SAND,HER IN HIS ARMS AND
         
         DUCKED INSIDE THEN SHELTER TRACI,SIMON,CLAE AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER SHARED.
         
         HE GENTLY LAID HER DOWN ON THE AMKE-SHIFT BED.HE PULLED OFF HIS SHIRT AND
         
        GENTLY PROPPED HER HEAD UP ON IT.HE LAID DOWN BESIDE HER AND TOOK HER HAND.
         
         HE HAD NO CONCEPT OF WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HER,BUT HE KNEW IT WASN’T FROM
         
         LAURI’S LITTLE PATIENCE TESTER.CLAE HAD HANDELED THAT WONDERFULLY.DRAKE
         
         LOOKED AT HER SERENE FACE AND RAN HIS FINGERTIP DOWN THE SIDE OF HER FACE.
         
         HE GENTLY KISSED HER CHEEK AND FELL ASLEEP.
         
            TRACI,DAVE AND SIMON HAD BEEN RIGHT BEHIND DRAKE.TRACI AND SIMON

         REACHED THE SHELTER BEFORE DRAKE,AND TO TRACI’S HORROR SHE SAW DRAKE