" Still, considering everything you've got, this big house, all your money, a huge, multinational corporation at your beck and call, it definitely see...s worth it." Oh, it is. I've got to say that the blindness scared the hell out of me at first, but now that I've gotten used to it, it's not so bad." I could definitely think of worse fates." Good." Paul tossed the coin to Julie, and she instinctively caught it. "It's yours now."As soon as Julie held the coin, she felt ideas and images in her. As he had once told himself, he wasn't endeavoring to be the neighborhood hunk. He was just the plain Dad-next-door type. The perfect American."Huh, Sweetie? Still awake?" His soft voice filtered through the door, looking for a response from his daughter."Just a minute, Dad," Betty replied. Hurriedly, she shoved the diary under her pillow and dived under her covers; her baby doll nightie was hardly the right dress for her father to see her in. "You can come in now." Hi, Bets," he greeted. It was now eight long months since the world had fallen to the desires of a kid with too much power. Charles was now eighteen while she had just turned seventeen. They had been together since that fateful day and looking back, Connie was thankful that Charles had been there that day. Without him she might not have survived.For a moment a cloud slipped over her face as the memory rose within her of what had happened. Then she saw Charles face. His face was filled with concern, and in response. I still loved to flirt and he was very good lookingBailey and I enjoyed a decent cup of coffee, and then a second while hepaced outside the caf? talking on his phone. It was clear that he wasdiscussing our future. I was strangely at peace. I knew that thiswould mark a changing in my life's path and I knew we had made the rightdecision.About an hour later the good detective walked back in with a very nicelooking woman around 30 years of age. She had a lovely shade of deepbrown hair that.