5.Today at 7AM, I woke up feeling ill, but decided I needed the money, so I went into work. At 3PM I got laid off. On my drive home I got a flat tire....hen I went into the trunk for the spare, it was flat too. A man in a BMW pulled over, gave me a ride, we chatted, and then he offered me a job. I start tomorrow.6.Today, as my father, three brothers, and two sisters stood around my mother’s hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words before she died.She simply said, “I feel so loved. "You've been very tough on me lately, Mr. Maxwell." "Because you've been misbehaving," his tone was suddenly icy, serious. His grip on her hips tightened and his jaw hardened. She winced from the sudden grip and pursed her lips. "But you've been good the past two nights," his expression visibly relaxed and was replaced by a naughty one. And she felt for once that she could, maybe, keep up with his sex drive. "I'm curious, though. What made you suddenly change your. I went back over my relationship with Kara, trying to figure out where I’d gone so horribly wrong. I kept coming back to the conversation that she and I had about limits and how I should have drawn a clear line for her. What I hadn’t realized is just how fragile Kara was, and the tightrope she was walking between her life before that first day in chemistry class and last Christmas.Had there been signs that I had missed? I was sure that there were. What lesson could I learn from this? To pay. But it was fun, and typically unpunished.Lucifer lazily reclined, flames dancing around his face, and watched as a stream of guests descended down the steps from the pearly gates. The rager he had planned should go well, as usual. Luckily, with enough time even the stuck up bastard pulling the strings could recognize that sometimes there needed to be a little bad to keep things interesting. It's not like anyone could get addicted to things in the afterlife. Unless they wanted to, of course.The.