" Did he ask you this week?" Annie said."Of course," said Caroline, "on the first of July." And you said?" I said I would think about it, that there w...s a lot to think about. It is your mother's house after all. We'd have to find a place to live, perhaps a tenant farm. I'm still not sure." She sighed."Hm," said Annie. "I guess you would have to leave." Or she would," said Michael. "Your mother I mean." Oh Michael," said his wife, clapping her hands. "Hush, how silly. Can you imagine Mother. "Well, yeah. I've heard about that sort of thing. I was thinking we could get you out of Minnesota some time during the winter. Get you a month in the sun and you could…sort of pretend you were single." She was quiet for a while, apparently thinking as David continued his stroking. He had bared his soul and it both frightened and aroused him. Despite the gravity of the situation, David now had an erection and Karen noticed. She felt it bumping against her side and was both amused and turned on,. I’ll see if Lee can replicate my machine. Mind you, it is a very expensive model and takes a little to get used too. Sandra I’d get some spare material to practice with as well.”The girls all gaped at her. “Well? What are you doing sitting here? Do you want these blasted dress finished in time or not?”The girls quickly got up and went to do their assigned chores. So, Tammy became the head dressmaker. Lee was more than happy to scan in Tammy’s machine and replicated two new ones for the. As long as they didn’t shoot right away he should be all right. It was eerily quiet in the main corridor. No sounds came from the rest of the mall.A police bullhorn squawked. “Please evacuate the store immediately, we’re covering all the exits.”Cameron grabbed some sweatpants and a shirt off a rack, threw them on, and adopted an appropriately panicked expression. He ran to the front of the store to find three officers wielding handguns in an arc around the store entrance with piss-your-pants.