"Ahhhuuhhh." Brian nodded as if to almost plead that they'd take nomore."Excellent! I'm so glad sweetie," said his mother, tipping the girl."Let's go ...oney."If his mother was testing his desire to really be feminine, she wasdoing nothing to let up on him, as the second his brows were completehe was right out of the chair and they were inside the nail salon.At least this was relaxing as they bathed his feet and soaked off hisnails. There was really no reason to have his toes done as he'd be. I switched to Swedish.“So, is he a nice boy?” I teased once we’d said hello.“Wouldn’t you like to know!” she giggled. “We’ve gone out a few times. He reminds me of you, but he doesn’t seem quite as needy.”“That’s an understatement!” I chuckled. “As I told Josh, it’s up to the two of you. As much as we meant to each other, we could never get to the point you needed.”“That’s true, though I did get what I needed right before you went home!”“That is burned into my memory, Sofia. It was a huge. Two seconds pass. “Mother fucker”, she whispers. She pulls around the corner and unloads her m18 into the head of the beast: bone and grey matter burst into a plume of crimson. The thing tries to scream, but instead its body thrashes and twists violently. It gurgles from a nearly decapitated torso. Empty shells hit the ground and made a satisfying noise. “Almost as good as Sunday hymns”, she thought. Three hours prior. Honey dew. It taste like angels ought to taste. She caught herself. "***"So how was school today," Sarah asked Emily after everyone else went up to their bedrooms that night."S'OK," Emily half-yawned from the spot where she lay curled up on the living room couch, wrapped in a blanket. "I haven't played freeze tag in ages. I'm still terrible at it, but it was fun." Would you say you're finally getting used to your new life?" I suppose," Emily replied without thinking."Then I wonder why the magic hasn't kicked in yet." Alarms went off inside Emily's head when she.