While Jennifer was still trying to get her eyes to focus, he put his switchblade to her throat and drew a faint line, barely breaking the skin beneath...the surface, allowing bits of blood to ooze through the slight cut. Bernard whispered menacingly. ‘You should be careful lady. I could just gut you right here while your boyfriend watched, but Mr. Baughman wants to make sure you enjoy our time together first.’ Mike was watching in wide eyed horror at what was going on across the room. As his eyes. She relished recounting the party anecdote for similar reasons, but tried to phrase it tastefully. “Well everyone was pretty drunk, Kimber more than anyone, and I bumped into a guy she’d been dating when I was leaving the bathroom. We had a bit of a … you know, encounter. He’d been flirting with me even as she was showing him off to everyone and I suppose I couldn’t resist. I hadn’t intended it and it was no big deal, we didn’t do anything too terrible. Not really.” She wilted under the. He..." Just one time, I bet," Elsie said."Uh-huh," she said, nodding."Just one time and you think you'se gonna have triplets." The big woman made a face. "Why, you barely look old enough to be bleedin' much. How old was this boy who humped you?"The choice of words Elsie used made Billie blush. "He's ten, I think... maybe eleven."For a long time Elsie Shelton rocked back and forth on the mattress, laughing until the tears rolled down her fat cheeks. Billie still felt woozy, but she was able to. My life in the eighteen months that had passed since meeting Construct had been busy, challenging, and surreal. At first I spend a good many hours in class with Ginny, being home schooled by our Mothers. But it soon became obvious that when Construct rescued me after the incident in North Carolina, my mind had been affected in more ways than just enhancing my sensitivity to the Light. My ability to comprehend and retain information seemed to have increased by that same order of magnitude. Now I.