.. Bye.” I turned back to my family and said, “There, problem solved. And you, sweet sister mine, are now obligated to get dressed up.”Sue looke... daggers at me, and Mom told me she didn’t like my language, but she said it with a smile. I grabbed my cane (I had just graduated to a single cane) and wandered down the hall. I was downstairs when the doorbell rang, right on the dot at eight-thirty, and opened it as Mom came down the stairs. I let Bobby Pritzer in and was pleased that he had dressed. "Darling, don't you remember?" Richard swooped down the stairs into the lobby. "We're trialling that new florist to do our flowers since Queenie retired. They get free advertising, we get free flowers." Who ordered stargazers? Vile-smelling things." Nobody, darling, they just sent them. They should have sent tiger lillies or thorny roses with you around." Richard smiled placidly at Jemima. She turned to the receptionist."Phone them up and tell them we don't want anything that smells stronger. The drone of a motorboat out on the creek lulled Meg into an almost nap. But her thoughts were circling around one thing… what next?It had been four years ago when she and her two best friends had come to this spot to say goodbye before they went their separate ways for school. It didn’t seem strange to her that her best friends were boys. They had all met as high school freshmen. Not being jocks or cheerleaders, they formed a friendship based on shared interests. As they weathered the storms. I had never known such pain could exist, even in training for this mission we had not been expected or prepared for this degree of inhuman treatment. I screamed out loud and burst into tears like a helpless baby, the current was turned off, my back relaxed, my nipples throbbed and my poor arse hole and cunt were both on fire.The officer spoke softly explaining to me that this was just a low setting jolt, just to test the apparatus in case more was needed, and that now that I knew what it could.