‘You know, Sire, that we adults should not expect the teens to undergo any deprivation that we, ourselves, are not also prepared to face.’ ‘Well...spoken Colin.’ the king said. However, inside, he felt a twinge and knew that Laura would not like it. Sheriff John chimed in, ‘Your highness, we could start a new more intrusive neighborhood watch and encourage teens and ALL family members to be on the lookout and promptly report any suspicious hanky panky and/or self abuse. If anyone is caught. "Zoey's eyes wandered and leveled on Damien. At once the hairs on hisneck stood up. This wasn't good. He had to do something. To his horror,he saw Zoey pull out two soul chips and he had the distinct guess onewas his own.Damien stumbled as the world around him suddenly changed. He was caughtby Harriet, but that was impossible. She had been on the other side ofZoey and right beside Sierra."What did you do? Give me back my body!" The familiar voice madeDamien's head snap around. It had been his. ‘Andar ana hai Ruchi?’ Mukesh asked with a smirk. ‘Wapas bhi ja sakti hu’, I replied with atti. He just laughed and showed me my purse and phone in his hand. Shit, the bastard had tricked me again. I had no money and no way to book an Uber or Ola. So I gave in and said Ha ana hai andar.Sumit smiled at this and said, ’Top utar.’ I just glared at him and said Koi a gaya toh? They laughed and said Kaun ayega, this is the top floor, chal utar top. I figured I did have the spaghetti inside. So I. I felt the back of my head and it was wet, too.“Oh, I didn’t even notice…”She just pressed her lips together in an understanding ‘smile’ and said, “Over here…”After the stitches in my shoulder and staples in my head were in place, I walked out of the ER wondering how I was going to get back to the station. I didn’t wonder long: Chief was outside waiting for me. One look at my face and he knew there was no need to ask about how Katie was doing.“You know you did it right.”“I’m not so sure,” I.