..', dachte ich und blickte mich suchend nach Josh um. Erstand etwas abseits und drehte sich in diesem Moment zu mir herum. Auch erhatte sich verwande...t, keine H?nde die Pranken waren, kein Kinnbart mehr.Nur seine langen, schwarzen haare waren geblieben, durch die ebenfallsSpitze Ohren stachen. Seine Augen waren leicht Blau am Kimmen, so wie esdie meinen auch taten. ich wusste es einfach, das Sies grade angefangenhatten."Josh?", fragte ich etwas unsicher. Immerhin konnte auch alles ein. But before they left, Kim did a curious thing—she turned me in the chair so that I was facing the mirror and away from the front door of the shop. Alone in the salon, adorned in a black leather dress (that was admittedly mostly covered by the salon cape), seemed stockings, towering pumps with a head full of curlers, I wasn’t about to take off. As long as nobody came in until the girls came back, I guessed I’d be alright. And I admit to enjoying what I had become. I was lost in my admirational. But then, after what she had done to him, should she really be surprised that he would resort to something like that? ‘Nah,’ Ashlee answered dismissively. ‘Why would he bother when he’s already got the upper hand?’ True, Julie thought. He already held the all the cards. He would easily come out far better than Julie in any divorce proceedings. Why would he bother with anything elaborate like Julie was envisioning? ‘It’s got something to do with sex,’ Ashlee asserted again. ‘And don’t be. I had fully intended to save the world one infectious disease at a time. I may even have been smart enough to do it. Like everyone else the dreams of youth don't often stand up to the light of day. Upon graduation some of my more "interesting" proposals and early adulthood decisions meant I ended up blackballed from the scientific fraternity in the West. Had I been born 10 years earlier I'm sure I could have worked out a mutually beneficial agreement with the Eastern Bloc. As it was I was left.