Jessica hated the fact I had to work."Matt, why can't you just let me take care of us? We'd then have lots more time together."I was stubborn and I wo...ldn't and couldn't be a kept man. My parent's had taught me to be self reliant and as much as I liked Jessica's parents I wasn't going to take their money. That was a trap I wasn't going to fall into.Another bone of contention was the housekeeping. Every week Jessica paid to have a house cleaner come in. I thought that was ridiculous with just. He put the chest down next to the package box.“How the…” Ian gasped.The pirate chest he had just removed from the outer box dwarfed the outer box it had been packed in. The chest was three inches longer, four inches wider and six inches taller that then shipping box it had been packed in.“Ah… Is this some sort of Harry Potter Doctor Who shit?” Ian asked.Ian went about trying to lift the lid of the pirate chest, and to his surprise, it opened with no problems. Inside was one of those old gothic. Next she gave me a pair of white two-inch heeled sandals with cross straps. They looked familiar."Remember these from that day?" said Karen. "They're Lissa's. She's more your foot size than me, so she said you could borrow."Maybe they did, but the straps were awfully snug. Still, I was prancing around smoothly enough in five minutes."Sashay now ... Sway your hips, just a bit ... Good girl!"We had practice conversations. Karen said my speech was cute and graceful, my manner passive. We spent. I've oftentimes goneout into the meadow and found myself in Mythica. In fact, I've been up anddown Mythica many a time, and I've seen a hell of a lot. Well, it works bothways. What lives in Mythica can and does come here. Just a few years ago, thosefairies started coming here; in fact they infested the place, which was a problem." "Why?" said Tom, still feeling dazed. "They're beautiful." "Unfortunately, they're as bad as they are beautiful. They blight crops.They make livestock sicken and die..