Steve looked out the kitchen window and said, "Well, it looks like it might be sooner than you think. Guess who's getting out of a car in our back yar...."Vikki beat Greg to the back door and threw it wide open. "Peg. Ralph. Hi, what are you doing here?"Peg came in first followed by her husband. "We heard you had a shooting last night and how a new bunch of bad guys came here to do who knows what. Is everyone okay? Can we be of any help to you Do you need anything?"Still not completely healed,. It was easy to tell that Brian was the jealous type. And I would be too, cause Tara was such a beautiful woman, I'd be worried 24 hours a day somebody would take here away from me if she were mine.Anyway, while Tara was at her ex's house, Brian and I stayed behind and cleaned up the house a little bit. I threw away all the wrappings from the presents and all the paper plates and food scraps so they wouldn't have to deal with it in the morning while he vacuumed the floor. By the time Tara. Bullets struck something in front of me. Persephone had shielded me just in time! The buildings with the snipers collapsed.The attackers in front of me screamed and started shooting at each other. Jenaveve was among them, but they couldn't see her. She stabbed one in the throat, sliding out of the way of the falling body to stab a woman upwards in the coochie. OUCH! CJ must have been giving Jenaveve knife lessons.I heard a crash to my left. Gianna had picked up a car and thrown it into one of. Guess how well that worked out for her?”“I’d say it didn’t work out well at all, from her perspective.”“Exactly,” I said. “But what I learned through the years, and with quite a bit of heartache, was that the real issue was that I wanted to make my own decisions and control my own destiny. My mom actually forbade me to marry pretty much any girl I actually liked, including Kara. Again, you can see how well that worked. As I’ve heard said before, the surest way to get a teenager to do ANYTHING.