It’s his 50th this year. I feel like he deserves something special. Let me make you dinner sometime this week to talk?” She hoped he couldn’t he...r the nervousness in her voice. “Sure, I can be there Friday at 7.” With that, she heard the phone click. —— She had spent the last couple days unpacking her apartment, picking out an outfit, and planning a casual but impressive dinner. It was 7:10 and she could feel her heart beating out of her chest. He knew, she thought, he’s found me out and he’s. ." But..." Jamie replies. "You do still want to have it done, right?" Absolutely," I answer. "Do you- do you regret having it done?" No," Jamie says with a smile. "In fact, I regret it less and less everyday. It really does feel like, natural, like it's been 'that way' mywhole life. Obviously though, you can only do what's right for you." Yeah," I say, my nerves calming."How long have you been doing ballet with Krystie, anyway?" Jamie asks."I remember seeing you at her birthday last July...". " he said."Good, lets not keep him waiting." I said.I followed Mathias to the outskirts of the city where my men were waiting, we marched immediately west following the trade roads, it was a four day hike to where the scouts needed us. The men speculated on why we had been ordered to go, I told them we would find out when we got there.On the fourth day I began to worry what was going on, on the road we found signs of a battle, the strange thing was that it looked to me to have been a fight. She gave up struggling. As she hung from the ceiling by the metal chain, she stared at the carpet below her.After a few more seconds, Erika stopped spinning. Her eyes looked down at the whip her father had in his hands."No, please... no." She was pleading with him.Wayne held his right hand up, bringing the whip over his head. The pigskin whip came down hard and struck the little girl on a piece of exposed flesh on her back. Erika screamed out loudly and started crying. Wayne kept whipping her,.