I put my hand on her back as she heaved. "I'm sorry," she said."It's not something you have much control over. Do you feel any better after throwing u...?" Not really. I think I'll find the infirmary and then go lie down in my cabin." Would you mind if I check on you before dinner?" I asked.She smiled. "Okay..."The seas hadn't lightened much by dinnertime. I hadn't seen Paula since her episode at the rail, so I went to her cabin and rapped on the door. "Paula?" I rapped again and put my ear to. Harry and his friends, Snape knew, were heading to an encounter with Voldemort and his gang. It was perfectly obvious that some might die, and perhaps all of them. Yet the students came, cheerfully and even mirthfully. Was this the Gryffindor spirit, Snape wondered, or was it simply youth? They were, after all, teenagers, and therefore immortal; serious injury, illness and even death were all things that happened to old people, not to them. Or if such a fate befell a teen, it was always of. I... I just..." Honey," interjected Christy, "if there are things you'd rather not talk about..." No, I want to tell you. You have a right to know about me." No one has a right to know anything you don't want them to," counseled the beautiful black wife."You both have been so wonderful I feel as if I could tell you anything."And for the next few minutes Marianne related her life with her parents, her father's repeated rapes, her marriage to Cornelius and his perversions, his death, her life as. ”I lost my car and I am grounded till school starts. I have no crew to manage and I am to be with you or him at work at all times,” Megan said to me.I hugged her giving her comfort. I told her daddy will cool off sooner or later. I told her he threatened to leave me if I ever lied to him again.Megan cried as she said, ”She didn't mean to get me in trouble as this was all her fault.”I told her it was ok as I had been trying Keith's patience for some time. After all, she herself had warned me..