’ ‘You’re hosting Halloween?’ Joel looked at her incredulously. ‘Not quite, but sort of. I will explain it, at the right time. Here,’ she ...hrust an invitation out at him. ‘I don’t want to stand here and argue with you anymore.’ She could feel her energy waning and walked with purpose back to the waiting car, trying not to let her fatigue show. Joel watched her go before looking at the invitation in his hands and groaning. ‘A Halloween party,’ he laughed. ‘Great, that’s just great.’ Shoving it. Victoria had given me high tech arrows fabricated out of something even better than titanium. They were light weight and essentially indestructible. With care they would serve me well over the next year. The only drawback was that I only had a specific number of them and there were no replacements in sight so retrieving spent arrows was an important task. Carefully I went from one lion to another and with the assistance of my dirk I cut the arrows out of the carcasses. Amazingly, on the big. And of course I was nice back, he was my customer after all, and I was friendly with everyone. I always worked the night shift at the salon and we closed at 9pm but took our last appointment at 9pm... no one ever came at that time though. Tommy soon found this out and started tanning later and later. Soon he was coming in right at 9pm every night and it was just me and him in the salon. He liked it like that. One night, he came in and told me that he saw me through my bedroom window. She smiled and said “her brother did, then said something about a big announcement, hope they didn’t go get married without inviting Mom and Dad, they be dead meat if they did. “ Mom And Dad have been preparing for this marriage for a long time, they won’t even set a date yet.” Jacque, Cheri and a man they did not know walked in waved and joined Kallie and Guido. They were introduced to Jule’s husband Sam they all shook hands and sat down. Jacque asked about their day, asking if they had.