Vanessa straightened up and stood akimbo. “What happened?” the Therapist asked.I shook my head. “Nothing. We’ve been working on protective spe...ls for me to cast on the apartment.”They studied me for a moment. “Okay,” Vanessa said. Sammi looked like she wanted to ask more questions but Vanessa pushed her toward the bathroom. “We’re going to clean up.”After they closed themselves in the bathroom, I turned to Emma. “Other than what you just told me, what does this mean?”The bedroom door opened and. "You been following me?" she asked, to which I could only um and ah and look guiltily at the floor, "God, you have, you perv," then a moment's pause, "Hey, you're the guy from the bar. I saw you checking me out earlier," here I could only nod sheepishly, "Alright then, come with me," she grabbed me tightly by the arm with a grip that I couldn't shake off, not only was she considerably taller than me but she was obviously much stronger too, her long fingernails dug into my wrist, "Dirty little. We’ll just pretend that he didn’t go running off to Lily…like I said he would and we’ll forget all about him fucking me in his car…like I said he would.’ ‘How could I forget? I saw it with my own eyes.’ I had been looking from Danna to Marissa like I was at a tennis match and maybe the back and forth shook up something in my head because I thought my old girlfriend had just admitted to my current girlfriend that she’d had sex with me. ‘And you were supposed to back off.’ Marissa rose from the. Her father was a soldier killed during the German invasion, and her mother was killed in an accident of some kind. That was really all we knew when we adopted her. At the beginning, she was quiet and shy, but she slowly left her shell behind, and became a typical, loud child, devoted to her big sister. We worried, at first, that Claudette would be jealous of Yvonne, but that was a problem that never occurred. In fact she was as fiercely protective of her little sister as Mistress had been.