“Laramie,” he said as he bent to kiss me. I almost let him make a scene before I remembered Aubrey was there.“Kyle,” I whispered. “Sit with ...ubrey and me.”“Aubrey?” He turned so fast toward her that he lost his balance and landed on the floor. At least that got us over the awkward part as we all started laughing and I helped him up off the floor.“Wouldn’t you rather sit on a chair?” I asked.“Yeah. Sure. Aubrey. How are you?” He was as thrown as I was and I could see in his eyes that he loved. "I've come to offer you a chance at revenge." Seeing no emotion in his eyes, she continued. "You are, I believe, familiar with the Sorcerer who overthrew the kingdom of Grumbaal." You know full well, Luda, my confrontation with the Demon Mage. Tell me what it is you know." Kroofus spoke quietly but could not keep a slight growl from his throat. Reaching about, Kroofus pulled upon a golden cord. Faintly, there was a hollow tinkling somewhere below them. "Wine will be here momentarily."It wasn't. "I think we should make this place our home" said Gwendoline to Jessica as they watched the toiling pair. "The trouble with the other place is that it's too small for when the children start coming along and that wonderful rock would always be tempting me to climb it alone. Nor does it have a pool and a tennis court. Shame I got poor old Harry to clean up that kitchen for nothing! She can start on this one in the afternoon." Will you go on living here when you inherit the family seat and that. I emphatically state that that's the last of it. Mommy looksin the hamper, and then directs an angry expression my way.I reach way into the bottom of the hamper, and as I'm leaning down intoit, stretching for one last panty, mommy nudges me and I tip over, headfirst, into the hamper. The sturdy plastic laundry hamper is like agarbage bin. I don't fall all the way in, but rather my stomach rests onthe side of the hamper. I teeter on the edge of it, with my head waydown in it and my legs up.