"Because he's always stealing mine." Teresa returned.I laughed and mumbled something defensively as I tossed the magazine aside, feigning disinterest ...o take my mother off guard. After dinner I brought my Christmas gifts up to my room figuring I'd settle down and read my very own Cosmo magazine from cover to cover in privacy. As I pulled my pillow out from under my bedspread, to lay on, a small package fell out; wrapped in Christmas paper. The tag read: To: Michael, From: Santa. I tore open the. On Sunday morning, I went to swim and have breakfast with Stephanie. She gave me a huge hug when I arrived and asked if I’d make some time for her. I told her that I would. When she left for church, I called Karin and then I spent some time with my dad, filling him in on everything. I left about 11:30am to take Kara to lunch.We had lunch, then went back to the Spencers’ to sit in the sauna and make love, then went to dinner with Pete and Melanie. After dinner, the four of us hung out in the. ‘Hey, would you like some soda or something?’ Meredith asked as she reentered the living room. ‘I think there’s some root beer in the fridge.’ ‘Sure, if you’ve got some,’ Billy said. He heard Meredith walk into the kitchen. He couldn’t help but notice that the thwack thwack of the flip flops had been replaced by the padding sound of bare feet, which was very noticeable while she walked on the linoleum of the kitchen. The sound brought back a memory of when Billy had been here for dinner a few. “Yeah, you and Colonel Lomax both!” Aaron alluded to the fact that our glorious leader was himself a backwoodsman from the hills of West Virginia.The fighting was now very intermittent, having long spells between outbreaks, and then lasting for hours at a time. The bulk of it was street-to-street, block by block, house-to-house. The Militia simply decided to grind the Klan down and literally smoke them out of one building after another. Captured child soldiers, and there were quite a few of.