"It does beat doing this every day." You never did this everyday," I said."True, you have done much better with the business than I ever did." he agre...d."True, and I don't do this everyday either," I said with a laugh."So you doing any better with the divorce thing?" he asked me."I'm still trying to get the hang of it," I said."Any new men in your life?" he asked."Yes, I met a man who once dated my friend Joyce. I always thought he was good looking. He has his own business as well. He owns one. The tearing sound as it swung through the air surprised me a little; she could obviously wield it very quickly."A crop often depends on wrist action more so than arm strength in order to be effective. You can strike with the cane portion, but for that level of pain you would usually use a straight cane, or a length of bamboo. The braided leather over the cane can easily tear skin, so the contact portion of a crop is usually restricted to just the flap of leather at its tip. You can strike with. .”The two of the giggled uncontrollably for a little while.“Oh, Sharifa, stop it. It makes me feel sick if I laugh too much. It doesn’t seem as though it is only four months since we graduated; so much has happened,” and she patted her tiny bulge affectionately.Serious again for a moment, Sharifa said, “You know he will make you a Princess when your son is born, don’t you? He may even marry you.”This set Nicola off giggling again, but she managed to splutter, “Then mam would be his. "Dude, what do you want?"Jon reacted as expected. "I'm settling our score, once and for all," hegestured to himself. "I've worked so hard, and yet it's always you!"He pointed an accusatory finger. "Perfect Charlie, head of the class.Perfect Charlie, with the girl and the car and all of that. Well I'msick of it." Like magic, a wand appeared in his hand."Oh. So that's how he's doing it." Charlie muttered to himself as theguy who had declared himself his rival continued to rant. It was.