..It was the right thing to do, wasn't it?I hesitated.What the fuck was wrong with me? I thought furiously to myself. I am twice their age! This whole...idea is ill conceived and perverted. Children should not be born in this environment where 8 women all share a single man. It was absolutely insane, and they were sure to grow up like serial murderers, slum lords, or politicians or something.Right?"Everyone!" I heard Janice shout from the next room. "I have news! It's finally a plus! I'm going to. That was a bullshit Strike Spree at the end and we both knew it, but he knew it’d piss me off to gloat about it, so gloating about it was the only thing he did. He wore the same thing he always wore: Light denim jeans, a black t-shirt and an unbuttoned flannel. I’d told him it made him look like a Lumberjack or a hipster, but he didn’t seem to care. He has a sharp jawline, but a gentle chin, with piercing green eyes and a loving gaze upon him, as if the whole world was to be loved. He walked. We found we had a lot in common and had the same sense of humor.’ Oliver didn’t like where this story was going. ‘So, like, eight months after we got here, I get a call and Lee says he was going to stay a week in San Diego. I become furious and I blow up at him about how he never spends time with me, how I’m always second in his mind, and how I’ve sacrificed so much to be with him, but yet, he gives nothing back. I don’t even remember what he said back, I think he apologized. But I just hung up. ‘It’s because the magic will continue working inside you after you leave here, mending what’s broken and killing all trace of the infection. You’ll be sore and it’ll just be easier for you to get around for a couple of days with the crutches.’ ‘He’s quite skilled,’ Cassea told her with a sly smile, ‘despite appearances.’ ‘She’s so mean to me,’ he told Edina with a grin. ‘We all have to be true to ourselves,’ she said almost melodically as she headed down the hall, which surprised Deres not at.