“Who sleeps where?” Lily asked the others, as they were exploring their new temporary home. Leah and Jessica were the smallest of the four girls....After some kibbling the two girls yielded and threw their bags through the small hatch. Before she had asked, Lily had already known Leah was going to end up in the small room. The blonde usually gave in to anything the other girls asked of her. “I’m getting into my pyjamas.” Emma announced, as she started to undo herself from her bikini. The other. Jenifer wanted to have him over for dinner one night so we could double-team him. Once back in San Diego, I was ready to start working on the house. I had enough money stashed to paint it, inside and out, replace the carpets in every room and hire some landscapers to completely go through the yard, which was an unkempt nightmare. It took a couple of days for Goodwill Industries to empty out the house of everything except what was in my room which I had moved to the spare bedroom in Jenifer’s. I gave her time, because there wasno reason to be pushy. If she wanted to tell me, she would."My name has not always been Talissa," she said, her voice breaking."Many years ago, I was called Talis." Talis?" I said, in surprise. I knew the name. "You were Talis?"She nodded and looked at me. I could see it in her eyes: she was speakingthe truth. "You were the chosen to succeed Anthony Jaberiel as the ImperialArchmage, until you vanished?" I trailed off because the end of thesentence was too. The sub commander had gotten the Captain to focus on something he was expecting and then had attacked from a completely different direction.Suddenly, Jim jumped right out of bed.“SHIT! What a fucking idiot I am! That goddamn Friday gave me a perfect head fake and I fucking went for it,” Jim snarled.In just a few short seconds he’d gone from being very happy after his incredible encounter with Tiff and Pi to being very angry and even humiliated.“I’m supposed to be smarter than this! GOD DAMNIT!.