”Amy and her father returned to the America House at the Sorbonne. According to an attendant, her old room was still vacant. They approached silentl.... Amy slipped her key into the lock and quietly unlocked the door.They found a very surprised Margaret and Marja sitting at Amy’s desk. They both jumped at the unexpected arrival. Margaret launched herself at Amy. Marja joined in a group hug.“Thank god. I was sure that Alexander had grabbed you again.”, whispered Margaret. “We’ve been trying to. They were both shorter than Karen who was 5'9". Rachel was the shorter of the two.-"Yes please come, we're going to this cabin, well more like a mansion out in the forest. My cousin invited me and insisted I bring friends."-Karen wanted to go, but "I do have that report to finish, it will be due by the time we would have gotten back."-"So do it there!" Kim insisted.-Karen tried to hold back her smile which just made her look all the more obvious, finally she broke, "OK!!" she shouted and the. ”I was lying on the bed listening when the door opened and Julie walked into the bedroom. She leaned down and kissed me on the lips. She asked me to come downstairs. My heart was racing as I got up out of bed and followed Julie downstairs into the living room.To my shock, I was greeted by two very large black men and James, all on the settees drinking beer. The two guys stood up and extended their hands out for me to shake. Their hands were twice the size of mine. I must have appeared very. She landed flat on her back, wrenching her shoulders painfully in the process, and cried out a second time. She was not the least bit puzzled, however. She knew she had failed to inform him before she came the last time and that there would now be consequences. There was a moment of apprehension…which to her surprise dissolved almost immediately, absorbed into the pool of serene acceptance which now lay at her core. She didn’t care about anything just then, as she lay on the floor, still.