"Shall we try out your present now?" she asked.Christopher handed her the cane and without being told bent over the back of the chair.His dress rode u... to reveal almost all of his buttocks but Julie rolled it up a bit further."Six strokes now and then six more before bedtime I think," said Julie tapping the cane against his cheeks.THWACK!The first cane stroke that he had received surprised him with how much it stung and he was just absorbing that when...THWACK!A second stroke landed and caused. Nothing. All the same. I heard my class getting a new student tomorrow." I said."Oh, nice." He said."Yeh." I replied."Anyways, I'm going to go get a shower and go to sleep. Night." He said."OK. Bye then." I said.He hung up.That night I couldn't sleep at all. I was constantly turning over from one side to another.Usually, I and Ben would sleep back-to-back or we'd cuddle.I tried everything to get some sleep and I eventually fell asleep....7am,,,Alarm on my phone went off and I woke up."Good. Do you want a word with her?" Has she said she wants to see me?" No, she's having a cup of tea in the kitchen with her Mother."Ralph opened the front door, and I could see Molly sitting at the kitchen table, through the doorway at the far end of the hall. She turned and looked at me, but didn't seem to react. The boys pushed past me, running in with Ben shouting "Mummy! Mummy! Guess what we've been doing? We've been out cycling with Daddy!"Molly turned on her chair to greet them. Then she stood. "I was blown up. Well not into little pieces or I would not be here. I was at the center of one of the bombs that you folks call the big blast." That- is not possible," Nimrod breaks in again."Please, Nim there is more to this than you can possible understand," I chide him. Then continue on. "It was around a hundred years ago. I was just a kid. No more than Maggie's age. I did not know what was going on. I doubt I even cared. All I remember is this giant flash and the shock wave moving toward.