Ah, the humor of Amma-llia ... mess with Aurora, pay her back, then smile with an air of total innocence, seemingly unaware of what she'd done. Aurora...glared at her, then turned serious."If you make this decision and use the ability to bring it about, you can't decide later you don't want to be the Special One. You will be committed on a path that will only end when it is done." And the downside of that... ?" Amy asked."The Special One is only born out of indescribable anguish and pain, both. ”She smiled at him, took a sip of her champagne, then stood up on her toes and kissed him lightly on the lips. It was a non-sexual, friendly kiss, the type you get at Christmas under a sprig of mistletoe.“You’re too good,” she said, “I didn’t know how good until all this. I’m sorry for everything, sorry I hurt you. I do want to be your friend. I still love you in a funny kind of way; happy New Year.”They sat down, watched some more television as they finished the bottle of champagne, talking,. ?They acted like it never happened. He never said word one to me anyway,which was just fine with me. And my mom was always fake-cheery, like she didn'thave anything to do with it, but she had that fucking SMUG SMILE. I hated her. I'd rather thinkabout what he did than what she did. I held my armsover my head while he whipped me really fast.?Eventually I learned to clasp my hands behind my neck so my armswouldn't hurt.? It also gave my handssomething to grab onto while I was being whipped.? I. " I did tell the truth, Annie, sort of anyway. I have not seen Kathy totally naked; she still had her top on." Then Annie asked Kathy, " Now Kathy, tell us how this happened." Well, Jimmy had to take my panties off to give me a spanking," she replied matter of factly."Well, that had to be pretty weird," Annie said."I know it sounds that way, and it sure could have been Annie, but Jimmy made it very comfortable for me, and I understood completely that he only wanted to help me and that a.