" "Holy, fucking, shit..." The words were barely audible as Jeanne imagined the full impact of what Barocca had just told her. Her eyes glazed over, ...s Jeanne imagined the ecstasies that lay ahead of her on the Island. "Earth to Jeanne. Earth to Jeanne," Barocca waved her palm in front of Jeanne and chuckled. Jeanne's attention came back to focus on Barocca. "That's better, Jeanne. You really can't wait to become one of us, can you?" "Is it really that obvious, Barocca? I guess getting a. The next day at work I noticed that Pauline seemed to be wearing quite a bit more make-up and in fact she definitely had deep red lipstick on that I had not seen before. During the morning Jim had to make a delivery and Pauline said, ‘I don’t know whether I’m pregnant but I have to confess that I really enjoyed it.’I replied, ‘you’re not the only one.As was usual in those days we closed for lunch and as normal we sat in the back of the shop and had a sandwich and a cup of tea. Almost straight. I am the quintessential avatar of motion. I am a fuckin' idiot. I feel her claws rake my hind quarters and suddenly I can no longer run.There's blood all over the ground. It's mine of course. She was never looking at the entire herd. She only wanted me. She wanted me because, I was wrong. This was never a game to her. It was always about food for her babies. I'm the biggest. So I'm the most food. And I was never the shit.As she rips out huge chunks of my flesh, she doesn't rejoice or do a. Wow, there she was nervously smiling back at me."I am so happy you really came," I said. She smiled as she walked into the room. I opened up the champagne and poured each of us a glass. I was still feeling the effects of the martinis so I sipped, not really drinking much of it.Tina however quickly finished her glass and tells me that she doesn't have much time. She had called her husband earlier and told him she was going to be working later than normal. I took that as my queue. I walked up to.