Maura was a nice sure thing and someone who he thought he could have sex with on a regular basis. Shannon seemed to indicate they were getting very fr...endly and maybe they would become intimate shortly. Kim had given every indication that she was receptive to his advances.Matt chuckled to himself when he remembered that old line, 'It's terrible when you are so popular.' His popularity with these women could change in a heartbeat but he hoped it wouldn't. It was hard for him not to get a big. I wasn't a bad dancer, if I do say so myself, and I aced the history pop quiz I had thrown at me unexpectedly and knew it, and got an A back on a math quiz, so I was really feeling good all day. Jo and Kathy took the bus home and it was a warm day, so work at the car lot was pretty good, too.When I got home after work, Kathy had made her world famous lasagna and taken one of grandma's home made loaves of bread out of the deep freeze in the shed and warmed it up in the oven. Jo had set the table. .but the house seemed so silent. It was out of the ordinary, and I felt a little bit---uneasy."Hey! I'm home!" I called out. But there was no reply.I went to the kitchen to see if Megan was there, but she wasn't; and so I took the back stairs up to our bed room, with every intention of taking a quick shower. However, as I turned to go into our bedroom, I found Megan setting on the edge of the bed, with my lap-top open on her lap! My heart practically shot into my mouth, as I realized, suddenly,. Satisfied with her work, Senka strode further into the chamber. She lifted an intricately painted hand. Six pearlescent orbs, gifts from her father, lifted around the females, casting an array of colored lights. A sharp pain speared Senka’s chest. Queen Tiren-se gasped as she was settled onto the bed in the center of the chamber. The orbs circled overhead. Senka knelt in front of the woman, nauseous from the sight of so much blood. The queen had been sliced from her collarbone to her naval..