." You should, it lasts so much longer." Doesn't it hurt?" A little... not as much as some people make out, but it isn't painless. Just... try a bit s...mewhere first to make sure you don't react badly to the wax, don't go over the same bit more than once or twice, and be prepared to have to use tweezers on the few that you miss."Elspeth hobbled out onto the poolside with the help of one of the lifeguards, knowing that with the amount of time it had taken her to get there, Marcus would already be. ..” I said.I had no idea how to finish the sentence.How could I have been so stupid?“You don’t hate me?” I whispered, my voice trembling.“I love you,” said Dan. “I love you totally and unconditionally.”“But I...”Pesky sentence – it still refused to have an ending.“Shh!” he whispered and kissed my head. “It was a mistake, nothing more.”Is that what it was? A mistake?I watched Mum cheerfully pushing paint around on the wall. Behind Mum, sprawled out on her red velvet sofa, that other Bec looked. That same discipline you had used to create a fit, muscular body, to get a job and keep it, to stay up late night after night studying eastern religion and western psychology, could be turned to honing that state of mind. It wasn't perfect yet, you still had duds, and you still had moral ambiguities, but you had at least learned how to control it in small ways.Over the last few months, you've been using your abilities in numerous small ways, getting your sisters to tell the truth more often. They knew what would happen.Ellie and Florence were already barefoot but Connie still wore blue ankle socks. Bending, Ellie seductively peeled them off, exposing Connie’s feet with their extremely pink soles. Connie felt embarrassed and shy — but also horny with anticipation.Florence reached under her bed and brought out her ‘deluxe dual foot massage and pedicure set’. She placed it beneath Connie’s feet and pressed a button, not really knowing what to expect. It had cost only ten pounds from a.