The sensation of the leather against her skin made her heart beat faster. ?I really am a naughty girl? she thought to herself, getting wet between her...legs once again."I let you sit like that, Simone. Might as well get used to the leather. At the institute, we use leather whips besides the rattan canes. You will get both, that's for sure. And often," Miss Chantalle declared. She was watching her new pupil from the corner of her eye. Simone wasn't able to sit still in her seat. She tried to put. When you break the surface of the water that is what you will be. You may summon me again when you wish to return to your true shape." I didn't see anything wrong with the Djinn's suggestion, so I ordered, "That's fine. However, when I change, change my ring so that it fits my form." I didn't want to lose the Star Sapphire in the water, and be a woman permanently. "Now be gone." Mentally I heard it say, as it faded out, "It is so............" I got up from my blanket, and began to. “Some would say that this is just a rebound deal, but who cares? If it is, it is. I feel safe in Dan’s arms. This already feels like home to me. I’m so breaking up with James and spending the rest of my life with my sister and OUR boyfriend. We can grow old together, right, all three of us?“The contrasts between Dan and James are SO fucking stark, too! James is a vain, arrogant, spiteful, hateful guy. A liar, a hypocrite, a fraud, a poser, a thin-skinned bully. Dan is ... wow ... so loving, so. If he hadn't come from a good family, Lauralee's grandmother probably would have had their marriage annulled. She'd been only sixteen while he was twenty-four.That was the year after the war was over, and he'd just got out of the army and had come home to Quiggville to draw his veteran's unemployment benefits while he looked around for something to do. The Quigg twins, Lee and Lauralee, had been c***dren when he went away ... now they were seniors in high school and most of the town gossip.