All of them glowed almost as if sex had occurred. I felt very much the same way.We talked about what had happened and I tried to touch on how. None of...us could really explain. Erin had understood my apology, but in the end she wouldn't allow me to let her go. It had hurt her more to be let go than the feeling of betrayal. Another affect of the program I was sure. However I made an offer to them that they all declined on the spot: if any of them, at any time, felt the need to leave the group. School starts again on Monday."Todd nodded. "Do you have a boyfriend now?" No," Pam said. What was he getting at?"Did you ever kiss a guy?" Yes," she said."Did you ever ..." he started to say."Ever what?" Did you ever see a guy's dick?" Yes, I did. I even touched one, too," Pam said. She could not help feeling smug.Todd looked shocked and that pleased her."You sucked one? Who?" My boyfriend's." I thought you said you didn't have a boyfriend?" I had one. That was last year."Todd nodded with his. "Oh no, you didn't"The cheeky grin was replaced with a flicker of apprehension and guilt before defiance came into the grey eyes locked in her gaze.Moonlight played across Lysas' patrician features, even as the gash across her brow absorbed itself back to pale, uncorrupted skin. She stood slowly from the deep chair she had been resting in, and approached the impudent young mortal with a slow, elegant menace.Leah cowerd away as Lysa approached, drawing her knees up to her chest and hugging them. Wordless, his dad spat in his face. Jeff returned the favor. ‘Remember what I said. I’m not fucking around!’ Jeff told him, then turned on his heel and strode from the room. One late September evening, Jeff tossed a packet of papers on the table in front of his father. ‘Sign where the red exes are and don’t fuck with me,’ Jeff said, the last words he was to speak to his father for a very long time. The next morning Jeff reported to Milwaukee, riding rapidly North on the Electroliner, the same.