"Boys don't get to wear nail polishor make-up!" I force out a laugh as Bryony and Cassie head into thekitchen for their 'makeover', even though her wo...ds cut deep. "You know, sometimes I do wonder what exactly it is you do when you goround to one of the girls' houses," mum laughs. "Whether or not they'vecoerced you into getting a makeover in the past..." Believe me, I don'ttake that much coercing. Rather than allowing mum to prove further, Isimply let out a snort of laughter and turn my. She had to think fast, had to…to… ‘Well what are you waiting for? Hurry up and go get changed, then we can have our battle!’ He made a shooing gesture at her, and she somewhat sheepishly let herself out of the room. Changed…that’s right. He’d said that the only way to defeat him was in a ‘ totally awesome superhero battle’. And she couldn’t do that in jeans and a sweater. Did that mean…she could leave? Go home, on the pretense of retrieving her costume? Then come back with a wrecking ball. If. Good. I didn't have anything like the energy to repeat it all over again. Besides, silver is expensive — almost as expensive as gold these days and really old good silver coins are really worth their weight in gold.Properly Banished, it would probably be at least a hundred years before the bastard will be able to return and go hunting for me out of revenge. It was even more likely that after returning home severely weakened from being slain and Banished, that it would be very unlikely to remain. Even so, this wasn’t what I learned in sex ed.I’m sure you know who Harvey Weinstein is. He’s a disgusting pig who ran a movie company, until he got put in prison for doing to hundreds of other women what he did to me - though I never reported him for doing it to me. If I had done it years ago, right after this happened, what would have been different? I can't know that, no one could. All I know is that I didn't, and he went on to rape me, and countless other women, for years. You might know.