The chase felt like an unwinding ball of thread. She rapidly approached the vanishing center.A hand shook her shoulder. “Julie. Wake up Julie,” a ...oice whispered in her ear.“Danny?” Julie’s eyes shot open. She was in bed with her husband snoring next to her. Soft starlight filtered in from their bedroom window casting deep shadows throughout the room. Julie sucked in her breath. A redheaded woman stood over her, with her cold hand resting on Julie’s naked shoulder.“No. Not Danny. It’s me.”. An overhead fluorescent light came on. He shielded his eyes and took in the room. It wasn’t luxurious but it wasn’t at all half-bad. There was a lamp on the bedside table and he turned it on and then shut the overhead light off.Dropping his duffle bag of the lone chair in the room he sat on the bed. It didn’t sag, which was a good sign. He turned the air conditioner on and set it on high to dispel the suffocating heat. He checked out the bathroom and it was clean with a wall rack holding a. As I sat down I heard one of the boys in the back as he said, “Damn did you see the chest on her.”I thought maybe I should not have worn that sweater after all. After about five more stops a boy and a girl got on the bus. I figured they were brother and sister. The girl sat down in the seat in front of me while her brother came back to where I was sitting.“OK, if I sit with you?” the boy asked.I looked at him as I replied, “You can if you want too.”The boy sat down as he told me his name was. Her " A-a-a-a-u-u-u-u-g-g-g-g-h-h-h-h," is slowly becoming an " U-u-u-u-m-m-m-m," as I slam into her without mercy. Another small change. " Um...Um...Um...Uh...Uh...Um," instead of " Oh...Oh...Oh!" Each stroke extracting a reaction. The changes were small but easily detectable. It had gone much quicker than Keith would have imagined. This 33 year old woman is taking me stroke for stroke. Brandi winced with every stroke, both up and back. Especially hard to absorb is when I came down, hammering.
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