My mom giving lots of promises about how they had patched things up. It didn’t take long for me to realize that was all bullshit.”“I’m surpris...d you’d want to come back for winter break.”“I didn’t,” replied Nicole in a small voice. “But dad insisted. Cause he always has to be right.” She let out another plaintive sigh. “I dreaded the idea of being home alone with them. That’s why I talked Kelsea and Zoey into coming home with me.” She let out a bitter laugh, “Misery loves company.”I still. It hurt to see her being so obviously neglected like that, but, like Jimmy said, what could we do?"Charles voice softened, "I understand, Miss. Thank you anyway, I'm sorry about your friend." Then he turned his attention back to the whole group, and spoke up, "Good night folks, thank you again for your time."Dad walked them to the door and as soon as it was closed let out a huge sigh. He then waited a few seconds then moved over to look out the front window. I heard the car start and he watched. Keeping in character, Samantha said, "I'm his girlfriend." You better back away before they arrest you for performing an indecent act in public," Herman said.Samantha stepped back."You're definitely going to have to start wearing pants," Herman said."Suck eggs and die," Samantha said.Herman laughed.Samantha asked, "What happened to Mike?" One of the local boys in blue had him spread eagle on the hood of the limousine," Herman answered."What in the hell for?"Herman smiled. "I don't know, but the. If you need to focus them on multiple targets at once you can think of an area as the target and the weapon will fire on everyone within the area with the exception of members of House Manix. Of course the opportunity to hit innocent bystanders increases significantly when the weapon is used that way, so like you said, it should probably be fired that way to only hold or take down targets," Dale informed him."Now for our demonstration," Dale said as he pointed his wand at a space about two.