Wonderful. I can just tell that she loves you somuch and that you love her," Emily gushed.Valerie blushed."I do love her. I love her with all my hea...t and I'd do anything forher," Valerie squeezed Emily's hand.Sally was standing just outside the bedroom door and when she heardValerie's words her heart melted."I've bought groceries and I'm cooking us dinner. There's wine in thatbag there; be a love and bring it to the kitchen," Valerie said.They ate at the table and nattered away, laughing. The charcoal grub did have depth and she pulled the paper up higher when the impossible happened. It appeared to change, to move. Shadows rearranged and shifted as she moved and wafted the paper. Then the drawn grub peeled more than rolled, off the paper and bounced off the corner of her desk. It landed on the floor like a bouncy ball with a lead core. It was crazy. Kelly blinked unbelieving, this couldnt be happening, she had simply fallen asleep at her desk. She blinked more forcefully. The morning services were definitely for just those of the right age, since they necessarily involved orgiastic rites, to put it mildly.Prayer wasn’t necessary, at least not yet due to the direct communication of the spirit guides, praise didn’t require hymns, at least not at the moment, and the homily was expected to be brief. We didn’t have Eucharist, not being Christians of any stripe, so our main service was an all-out clusterfuck, a free-for-all wherein everyone fucked everyone else. This. When Katie got back in the car, Anna and Evie were holding up papers with the number nine written on them.“Only nines?” Katie asked.“You still have clothes on,” Anna joked as she and Evie laughed outrageously.October 12Mom and I went to the florist and ordered Katie’s flowers for next week’s Homecoming Dance. Since Katie told me it was a strapless dress, Mom suggested I get a nice wrist corsage for her. She thought it would be less embarrassing for us both if I didn’t have to, in Mom’s words,.