I heard the soft click of a marker uncapped. The Mask's hand reached to the back of my neck and held my head. I felt the pen writing on the tape. Whis...ered letters, as the Mask wrote them. "C... R... Y... B... A... B... Y..." Hey," I started to say, but lips met mine silencing me. The lips were soft, and I could feel no sign of mustache or razor stubble. A woman? I couldn't tell. Strong hands, but oh those lips; and the scent of roses again. I tried to stop thinking of the lips as belonging to. Achan gulfl kidannu njangalkk vendi kashtapedumbol amma ividae palarudayum kooda kidannu sukhikkunnu.Ann rathri enik urangaan kazhinjilla.Karanam yoosaf vannalo enne vicharich urakkam poyi.Mikkavarum lla rathriyum yoosaf vararundann enikk manasilayi.But ithu vara njan arinjilla.Njanum aniyathiyum oru roomilan kidakkar.Amma mattoru roomil thanichum.Ammayuda koodae aniyathi kidakkanam ennuparanjan sammathikkilla.Ippozhan athinte kaaryem enikk manasilaytha.Annu raathri njan urangathirunnu.Ekadesha. The teen girl with the dirty blonde hair, freckles and boyishclothes. As his mom sat, he slumped into the chair next to her, armsfolded under his armpits.The worst part was that he had been thinking about getting his haircut.He kept thinking about the way he looked in the costume. And the wayMary and Alice responded. And Logan, if he was being honest withhimself. He'd started absentmindedly planning out a campaign topersuade his mother. Pretending to care about fashion, like he knewshe. .. then a small light bulb went on in her mind.“No. He couldn’t know,” Deb whispered to herself.She tried to get back to work, but the vision of a smiling Mick running over Donny with a stolen car was running amok through her imagination. If he did that, it meant that he found out about her affair. If he had done that to Donny, what was he going to do to her? When lunch rolled around she called HR and told them that she was going to take a half a sick day and she raced home.I got home the next.