‘I’ll be back as soon as I can,’ she said. ‘I love you.’ ‘I love you too.’ Dani was surprised at the number of people at the funeral. S...e hadn’t been in touch with Ben in a year and a half, she hadn’t realized that so many people had known him. ‘Is Julie here?’ she asked Beth, whom she was sitting with. ‘Of course not,’ Beth said bitterly. ‘Julie didn’t give a shit about Ben.’ Across the room, Dani recognized Ben’s stepmother, Phyllis. There was a little boy with her. ‘Who’s that with. Not just his music, but it seems like he cares about his looks,and he takes the time to look nice. Mom is always pointing him out to meand saying that. The other day we saw him on tv and Mom said, You knowHoney, I think he is wearing lip gloss? Do you see that? And it wastrue, it definitely looked that way. She said, See that, here is a boythat is wearing a little makeup, and all the girls love him! I was like,What's your point, Mom. And she said, My point, Mr. Smarty Pants is thatyou do. . or someone, at any rate. I thought I had inherited an enemy from her. It was very disconcerting that I didn't know even so much as the enemy's name.The next morning I was ready to head out to work. I put up a protective spell on myself, as I usually did. My protective spells had kept me alive through several attacks, as well as some very curious 'accidents', that seemed to happen around me a lot.I worked at a college as an assistant professor of languages, and I needed to be at school by the. I was so horny that night and she knew it and teased me the whole time. Man all I been doing was thinking about what she would look like naked. The few times we had already gone out she wore these very low cut blouse and I couldn’t keep my eyes off her tits. She kept telling me “Hey you look at me and not them” then she would laugh and say” your mother know you that mannish?” Then I would laugh to. Well I better get back to the office I told the guys. As I got to my office and sat down I.