"Will you stay in here tonight? It'll make me feel better."I hesitated. "Umm... alright."I lay down and pulled the covers over myself. After a while, ... heard her breathing even out and I knew she was asleep. Slowly, sleep took hold of me as well. The last thing I saw was her face, at peace.----I woke up slowly. The first thing I noticed was my right arm was dead. And I had a face full of cherries. I opened my eyes. Sunlight was streaming in my window. I realized that I had a face full of hair. " But will slip time to time." Please don't get upset about it, OK'.Sharon just smile and said, "OK".Totally drained, we climbed into bed and cuddled till we all fell asleep.In the morning Tammy and Julie got dressed and left, just as planned last night.Betty showed up right on schedule. Mom invited her in and got her some coffee. After the coffee and the pleasantries were served:"Betty, I have some bad news," Mom said tentatively."What about?" she exclaimed," You're not sick are you?" No, it's. "I need you to get someone to run a couple of names through NCIC for me."NCIC is the acronym for the National Crime Information Center, a database for cataloging information about those arrested and those they harmed."Sure thing, Chief," Officer Stan Williams responded. It was Sunday night during the off season. Bryant was positive that any action was more interesting than what Williams had been doing."Richard Currence is the first one," Bryant said, spelling the last name. "The second one is. After being an only child for all my life, being twinswith a mermaid princess was wonderful!Maybe if Anemone and I had grown up together it wouldn't seem sospecial, but I was too new to this life to take any part of it forgranted. It was hard to feel like there was anything worth fightingabout when just brushing my long soft golden hair put me on a totalhigh, if I wasn't already on one from having woke up in my clam shellbed that morning to discover: "Yep, still a princess..."Anemone had been.