"Red is definitely your colour so you should wear a red bikini!" She answered her own question but everyone agreed."And a mini skirt, the shorter the ...etter!" Sophie chimed in."The only red skirt I have is, uh my old school skirt from years ago," I laughed."That'll do," Stacey told me."No way," I whinged. "It barely covers me!" That's kinda the point!" said Stacey. I stepped into the little pleated skirt and pulled it up, it only just covered my bum cheeks! "Excellent! And on top…do you still. .. Evie Douglas. Short for Evelyn, but you get the idea. These are my children, Boaz, Ruth, Naomi, Esther, Deborah, and Caleb. Yes, all Bible names, of course. This is my ... husband, Joseph. He’s probably already contemplating his revenge in case you don’t pick me. It won’t be pretty. Some kind of church discipline, to put it mildly, and worse at home. We’re ... Christians, you see. Independent, fundamentalist Baptists, to be precise. My husband’s a deacon, too, and my father-in-law’s minister. I glanced at Alma, she was smiling, completely self confident in getting to be Queen of the Christmas dance. ‘Doesn’t she look just wonderful today?’ Mrs. Harrison tried, lamely. No response. ‘Five dollars? Anyone?’ She asked. Still nothing. Paula’s face was now ghostly white, she was staring at the floor in front of her. ‘How about a dollar?’ Mrs. Harrison called out loudly, completely oblivious to what she was doing to poor Paula. I looked over at Alma, she was ready to step up next. She had. "But maybe we could just, you know. Forget about it. I mean, the hallucinations aren't so bad. It's more the abject fear of telling Mom that I saw what I saw that's got me shaking like this." "Don't be a jack-ass," Todd said. "Dom's offering to do the worst of it-" "We," Dom corrected. Todd looked at him, brow furrowed. "Say what?" "We're offering to do the worst of it for him. You and me both, buddy." Todd held up his hands in protest. "Now wait just a goddamn-" "Our brother's suffering here..