We wanted them to be mostly normal, but still watch out for you. You didn't seem to notice until Kristen told you." That's not entirely true. I didn't...know what had changed, but I did notice the difference. Nick went out of his way to not annoy me, and even when I said something that was debatable, he avoided challenging me on it. I hadn't noticed the rest, but I'm sure I could come up with something like that for all of them except Jessica who I didn't really know or see very often."Steve. "Please, just use your belt," she pleaded, but it fell on deaf ears as Tom was already getting it out of their closet. "Don't try to get out of it Ann, you know you deserve it and there's nothing you can say to change my mind, now bend over and take down those panties," he commanded. Tears welling up in her eyes she did as she was told, hooking a thumb in each side of her panties she slid them down around her ankles and straddled the corner of the bed laying her stomach on the mattress with one. She took him by the hand and put him ina corner for a timeout. He tried to turn but she held him there. Onceagain, Andy was beaten and eventually went back to the group. One ofthe other children was having a real problem with the work and hedecided to help her. The teachers saw it as one child helping anotherand were pleased. Andy asked this girl who he was helping, you know I?ma man."The little girl said, "No, your not."Later there were cookies and milk. Andy didn?t want the milk but. Anne thought the comment was a little left field, but didn’t think too much on it. She got out of the car and looked around. There were trees and leaves everywhere. Here, it still looked like late fall. You couldn’t really see the ground, because it was carpeted with leaves. ?This is where you live?? Anne asked Peter as he handed her a cup of hot cocoa. The steam from the cup was warming her face and the cup was doing a good job on her hands. Peter’s cup wasn’t emitting any.