I had no trouble with the review today, but I am still worried about possibly using one of the advanced spells during the exam," she told me."Just do ...our best, and don't worry about what spell you need to use. I'm sure that it will be all right," I told her before she cuddled up to me, and we were soon asleep.We were all up early in the morning and headed down to the pool to bathe. Later there was breakfast. Dad came by shortly before 9:00, and he and Annie left for the grove.I left our. She only told her best friends of how she hated her mother and wanted to get back at her for what she did and said to her that day, and ever since. Then this girl she hardly knew, an eighth-grader, took her aside. She said she was a friend of a friend's sister or something, and heard how mad she was at her mom. Then she asked exactly how she wanted to "get even."Robin didn't have to think about it. The argument was about being alone with a guy and acting like a slut. If having sex with a guy. Carol was home, anxiously waiting to hear how my meeting with Jack went."Honey, are you free now for lunch?" Um, yes, Neil, what's the matter? What happened?" Nothing. Jack the owner wants to have lunch with us. You and me." Me? Why me?" I don't know." Oh, Neil, I, uh, don't like Jack." Uh, why?" Well, last year at the Christmas party he, he, um, made a pass at me."I paused. "I didn't know that. Why didn't you tell me?" I, uh, was embarrassed. And I didn't want you to get upset." What did he. For some reason I recall a lamp and I remember it being in nice contrast to the stark industrialism of it’s surroundings. The mood was one of curiosity, mystery and intrigue. I distinctly remember walking down the rabbit hole with no fear, even though there was a steady stream of terrified souls running in the opposite direction. Throughout the whole sequence though, I kept a steady and curious pace towards whatever was awaiting me. Somehow I knew that I had nothing to fear and that it was my.