"Please?"He picked me up and carried me up the steps and into my room beforesetting me down on the floor. "Mommy told me you got your tentativeclass s...hedule today?"I nodded. "It's over here if you want to see it?"I walked to my desk and handed him the paper printout of my schedule."Looks like you've got some long days on Mondays, Wednesdays, andFridays..."I shrugged. "Doesn't seem any different from high school?" I said."You think that now... just wait until you've got that many tests in. How would you like me to punish you?” Had she run out of ideas? I couldn’t think of anything. While I was thinking, she spotted the cream on the sideboard. “Have you been using this? It’s got a local anaesthetic in it? You are cheating! I have half a mind to say you did not obey me, and you know what will happen to you if I do! Tell me the truth now!” I told her that Anna had put it on most of my body, but not my vagina. She was seriously angry. She opened another cupboard - it looked a bit. The demons swiftly answered that question much to my annoyance, "Rhea you've been lonely and depressed since forever and for some fucked up reason you always revert to Shan in your imagination to hold you and make you feel safe, feel loved and wanted. As if you mattered, but just so you know he may just be using you for a holiday and maybe even easy sex." I mentally scowled at the demon ordering it to shut up. Easy sex! Oh the audacity of this demon, who I willingly let live in my soul. I. Oddly enough, it was the swimming pool that brought us together again. I asked Andrea if she’d like to meet up and she invited me over one Friday evening, telling me to bring swimwear. My life was about to take an unexpected turn.A taxi dropped me off around seven and Andrea answered the door wearing a bikini and a short translucent wrap. She hadn’t really changed much over the years. Her light brown hair was still shoulder-length and her curvy but firm figure suggested she went to the gym..