We’ll take turns...”Mom beat me to it. “Deena can’t drive. You just tell me when we need to shuttle ‘er...”“Might do that, Mom. You’re...on my list...”“Good. That’s what family’s for, baby. You just tell me what you need.”I hugged her. “Mom, you’ve been giving me what I need all my life.”Saying things like that to your mom will get your stuffings hugged out.“Where’s Stevie?”“Spent the night with school friends.”“Mom, he’s in the first grade...”“I know. And me ‘n’ Steve had a nice dinner out. No, I replied honestly. Cody and I had been texting for quite some time and we often sent nude pictures to each other. We were both 15 and lived two states apart. I went to school with with a few years before but then I moved away after my parents got divorced. We knew we would never be able to date but we still played around on the phone and we planned on having sex when I went to visit my dad in the summer because he still lived in the same place. We were both virgins and talked about it. I thought of giving her a warning call but he interrupted my thought, “Don't call her.”“Okay,” I agreed as he turned and walked off. “Have fun,” I said under my breath.***I was going to go a couple doors down to see Carolyn. I wanted to tell her about going to school again and maybe tell her a little about Javon. I knew that's the main thing she'd want to grill me about. I threw on a blouse and skirt, did my makeup, toasted a bagel and drank a glass of orange juice. I was about to go out the. Devon’s screams could now be clearly heard over both the keen of the chanting and the roar of the sea as the twelfth naked witch took her place behind her and began to swing her twelve stranded whip against Devon’s back. The chanting matched her screams and grew louder and louder with each stroke until suddenly with the twelfth stroke of the twelfth whip, everything fell silent except the wind. Even Devon hung silent as she gasped to pull breath into bruised and beaten body.There was nothing to.