”The cold and snow must be messing with my ears. He must mean it feels like he’s been married a hundred and fifty years. I hear ya brother!He told...me to follow him and we proceeded to walk toward the back of the lot. It was a bit of a maze to get there but we turned a corner and there in all it’s glory was THE PERFECT TREE.As hard as I tried, I couldn’t find anything wrong with it. Shape, size, dimension and needle placement were simply perfect. For a tree like this I knew it had to be. I followed her up the stairs in the wake of her exotic perfume. She slipped her key card into the door lock, I followed her in and stood in the middle of the short hallway of her suite. The lights were mostly off and the remaining lamps gave her skin an almost shimmering glow. She had come across as stern, but passionate, so this didn’t worry me. She wore a tight black party dress, sleeveless, that only just reaching mid thigh. She was toned and fit; about a foot shorter than me. Black,. We went at the fight for five more minutes before we were both on the mats gasping for breath.“Follow us over to the locker and we can talk while we change out of this gear,” I said.While we were changing I asked if there had been any more new developments in the investigation.“There was another packet of pictures and a letter dropped off at a mail box in Essex this afternoon. It was an isolated box with no cameras in the area. It contained more threats and worse pictures; the kids were. Then I would leave the transformation magic behind.I'd had my fill of it."You and Meghan, your stories are about to change," said Abi. "You'reboth at a crossroads. You'll do this and walk different ways. Your oldlives will be gone. Your old stories will be over. A clean break. Yes,you can do this."*Meghan called it The Big Bang."This is the day we die, girlfriend," she said.All was quiet in the house. Mom was out, leaving us plenty of time to dothe ritual.I had cleared the floor in my room,.