"There we go," she sighed, standing back to view her handiwork. "Wouldyou like to see how you look?"At this point you were more than fed up with this ...ut you nodded, stillcurious to see what Patricia had done to your face. She held up a mirrorand you nearly gasped at what you saw. Looking back at you was whatappeared to be a very pretty woman. With your bright red lips, long blacklashes and ginger hair styled in the same way a Patricia's you could haveeasily passed for her younger sister."You. “What happened to you young lady?” Beccy was looking at my very red bottom. She asked again in a sharper tone, “Explain young lady and be quick about it.” I had enough wits about me to tell Beccy that I accidently walked out of a shop with unpaid goods and I was given a choice of the Police or the Manager spanking me. I left out Helen and the fact she is 18 years old and had a whole lot of teenagers watching me being spanked. Beccy said, “Well well, that isn’t good is it?” “No Beccy,” I. There were a number of water springs running down by the side of the road. At one point, a stream turned into a small pond and carried on again as a stream. It was a stunning sight. Long row of snow capped mountains tapering off into thick green forests, ending finally so close to us in the form of these small infant streams. Sunita and Jyoti stopped to look. We caught up with them. All of us looked at the astounding sight. We were mesmerized by the view. That certainly was the nature at its. Why was he looking that way?“Yes,” he answered, quietly.He was affirming what I was saying but his look was, ‘so what’. I’d spell it out clearly for him, even if I had to rip the words from the depths of my shattered and nearly lifeless soul.“You are older than Duane. Do you not know what I’m talking about?” The voice I heard saying that had an anguished tone that I’d not heard since that night with Markus.The faintest hint of a smile crossed Auden’s face, then quickly disappeared.A part of me.