They looked after her – made sure she had enough to eat, kept the vultures away, that sort of stuff. When we sat down to supper tonight, it was the ...irst time she's had a home-cooked meal in two years – unless you count macaroni and cheese that she made herself."Regan closed her eyes but still felt tears coming. Rather than admit that she had been wrong, she headed inside the building and raced to the bathroom.Elizabeth started after her but Joy put a hand on her arm."I'll go," Joy said. "I've. A feeling I hadnever experienced prior to this.Joy probably counted on those feelings to keep me wanting more. Andtruthfully, I did want more. But I also intended to win this elaborategame she had concocted, even if, as Claire had said, it was riggedagainst me.Winning when your opponent thinks it is not possible, is the sweetestwin of all. Though it does take some serious strategy to pull it off.And so far I had come up empty on that front. So for now I had tocontent myself with playing the. I hopped up, putting down my things, and ran into the cool water.It didn’t take me long to realize the lake water was just murky enough to hide anything past just under the surface. I swam around a bit, watching the people on the beach. I couldn’t believe Lisa’s tiny bikini was able to hang on to those mountains she called tits while she ran around with James, playing against Michelle and Derek. Tiffany was soaking up the sun, or was before the clouds rolled in, the guy she was talking to now. Could my weight alone be enough to topple this tree? It was a pretty decent sized tree! How could little old me tip over this monolith of centurial representation? Unfortunately, physics didn’t care what I or reality said. Possibly physics simply didn’t apply. Oh, well. Regardless of the reasons or non-reasons, I was going down. Pure evil radiated all throughout my body in the form of fear so utterly biting and cold and permeating that I ceased to think in any rational sense and only braced.