At first I thought he was just being extra nice to me because mom had left us, but gradually he began touching me and stuff. I admit I liked it, liked...his attention. I was mad at mom for running out like she did. Then he slept with me, Zoe I wasn't thinking straight, I went to his bed and offered myself to him."Zoe could hear Ally sobbing quietly now and she reached out to hug her."It was good Zoe, I enjoyed it, I enjoyed having him fill me up. But pretty soon he started to hurt me, on purpose.. Completely wrong.”“Why?”“Well, for a start, you’ve got to change trains to get to Marble Arch from St. Pancras. The quickest way is to take the Victoria Line to Oxford Circus, I think, then the Central Line to Marble Arch.”“So?”“And secondly,” I said, ignoring the question, “You’ll be going the wrong way on The Mall. You don’t walk up it, away from Buckingham Palace, you have to walk down it, towards The Palace.”Vanessa huffed—which I took as a sign that I was right, but she didn’t want to. If you’re the nice guy I think you are, then yes, it could turn into something sexual, if you want that.” “Well, we just met, and we don’t really know each other.” “Do you want to wait, and decide whether to do it on another day?” “No,” I said. The last thing I wanted to do was put the kibosh on this whole thing. After all, in our very short time together, I really liked her. “Okay, how about this," said Jen. "Winner calls the shots. Winner decides if we go forward. If you win, you decide what. Within a year I bought a new, larger house in a nicer neighborhood. Then Alpha and I came up with plans that required a much larger house, so I had a 24+ room, 3 story house built outside of town -- 14 bedrooms, 8.5 baths -- with a special humidity and temperature controlled room for Alpha in the basement, which looks a lot like a web-hosting node.It might be worth a slight digression at this point to discuss Alpha herself and her limitations.Alpha was originally stored in a single pretty.