"Oh my Go..." Two hands sprung forth from the mirror, grabbingPatricia by the ears, the grip was strong they pulled her into theglass.Patricia scream...d in fear as she gripped onto the little hands but shefell in quickly, her feet flailing as she disappeared into the mirror.She fell to all fours on the other side with light thud.Her hands were soft and pudgy, they were smooth, she tried to stand buttumbled again, caught in a heap of clothes.She scanned the room quickly, frantically, she saw the. There was no place to sit except the bed, so she sat there while he got up and came around to kneel between her knees, which she found took no effort whatsoever to spread for him.They were not prepared, of course. They had no water. They had no towel. They had no scissors to shorten her blond nether locks prior to applying the razor. That implement, in fact, had been used several times, and a new one would have been better.But Ruth was performing a labor of love, so the amount of time it took. Paul avoided spending the night in my place for a few days afterwards. Christmas was just around the corner and Paul had left Chicago for home to spend a few days with his family, returning on Christmas Eve, determined to spend it with me, feeling sorry over my decision not to go to Oregon with him and absolutely refusing to go home to my family. I’ve been away from home for three years now and I am not ready to go back, yet. As annoying as the topic of Christmas was to me, I loved him for. The change was so massive that Marcy didn’t couldn’t bring herself to believe it was her. Until she looked at the second picture.It had been taken a scant few seconds after the first from the looks of it. The same market scene and the same stall in the background but now Karmin was turned fully towards the camera, her hand sliding an apple into a bag at her side as she smiled.It was the smile that did it. Marcy felt her heart ache as she looked at it. The years they had been friends rearing up.