" And how long," the professor queried, "did that take?" Oh, about half an hour or 45 minutes, Mommy was busy with Officer Ray and Billy and his frien...s had already called dibs on Becky." I see." The professor toyed with his glasses. "And there was no 'other' you in the mirror this morning?" Well, I don't know," she mused. "I was still sound asleep when 'dear' brother came in to give my fiancee her wake up call and I kinda joined in, so I didn't get look in the mirror right away." I see. I must. Julia put her arm around Roy and started walking up the street. Elena and Maria both waved back at me as they went over the road and turned the corner. ‘Great’ I thought as I began to wonder down the street, tracing the footsteps Roy and Julia had made moments before. ‘Another year, another couple of hours to waste as everybody goes last minute shopping’.As my mind started to wonder, thinking about Jenny, my neighbour’s daughter, who had also recently just had her eighteenth birthday and had. .? I thought worriedly."What did your mother do to you to try and enforce her will?" Umm..." She looked even more nervous.I turned to her mother whose face seemed to grow into a malicious grinon her face just then."Did she threaten you?" Umm..." Are you scared of your mother Miss Harris?"I felt bad for Addy, as she literally squirmed in her seat. "Isn?teveryone scared of their mothers?"There were a few chuckles in the courtroom, including from JudgeO?Connor about that. His serious fa?ade had. Most tried to ignore it, as they always did. Some wishedthey were in the room, inflicting that agony on the poor MissAbernathy, and some few wished they were in the room, in her place.Finally, about 17.00 or so, the door opened. Regina stepped out.She was not the same girl who had gone in there. The girl who hadentered the dungeon suspected that there were many dark and painfulplaces to which a girl could be taken. The girl who came out hadvisited those places, and would never be quite the.