Smith, is my step mother this isn't the first time she tricked some Mexican into fucking her, thinking they would get a green card out of it " I'm so...ry, i go home now" Responded Juan embarrassed and ashamed, because he knew this wasn't the first some gringo tricked him after all those Craigslist Ads were too good to be true." WAIT " Ashley said quickly, maybe ill have a use for you after all...Juan confused like an Amish family at Best Buy, looked around thinking maybe this was a setup by the. Waiting. Slowly but surely, a sense of normalcy returned. People began to grow accustomed to these silent beings as work began to resume, schools opened their doors once more, and wars continued to be fought.It started as whispers at first. These 'Shadows' as they were referred to, would grant 'deals' and almost godlike power that enabled people to manipulate the world in such a way that could make the impossible possible. If these deals were broken people would vanish or die. Politicians made. They were used to give us some privacy, but anyone walking through the room could see the beds.I was the youngest of the group and the only Kiwi. Mouse was next by only two weeks and then Ant. Ray was the oldest being six months older than me, and Patty and Kitty fit somewhere in between.I was amused by the liquorice-all-sorts that we were. Ant was the tallest and some combination of Aboriginal, Irish, Scott’s and English heritage. Then I was next, and my Caucasian mix included, Aboriginal and. Of course in those days it wasn't called the Aphrodite Virus, it had some other name that was soon forgotten.It presented itself like an upper respiratory infection, starting our with congestion, a cough and a high fever. It seemed to run through the Chinese population over night, and in less than a week there were reported cases in France, Italy and Africa. By the end of week two it was working its way up both seaboards of the United States.The first peculiarity of the virus was that it seemed.