My eyes flutter and my mouth opens slightly. Waiting. Anticipating. Needing."My my, aren't we eager?"She gently, carefully, thoroughly removes the ...remainder of my lip gloss. Not at all the type of attention my lips need. She then removes her own lipstick. "We can't be leaving marks, now can we?" She studies the mingling of our two shades on the tissues like a gypsy reading tea leaves before smiling to herself and tossing it in the trash.Our innocence. Co-mingled on the tissue among. Misty replied that all was well but to wait for us to make an announcement before moving.The raiders, now depleted, seemed to have reached a decision. They seemed to have renewed vigor. I shot one before he resumed his vehicle and Misty got another. Sharon got one as did Jim. Their return fire was harsh but had little effect upon us. Then they started shooting at the house. Misty and I began to shoot steadily as did Sharon and Jim. They were losing people because they were exposed and we were. "How did you..." She stared at the speaker, a very skinny boy in his mid-teens. He looked more like a scarecrow than a person in his blue jeans and NASCAR shirt, especially with that spiky light brown hair."I'll take this customer, Dannie." The Wizard stepped out from behind the curtain that separated the private area of the store from the showroom. "You get back to your studies. That magazine will be waiting for you by your jacket." He made a gesture, and Dannie's magazine disappeared. In its. “Did you enjoy it?” She nodded yes. “Then don’t worry about it.”“It’s still gross.”I held up my hands in surrender and smiled. “I’m not trying to push that boundary. But I wanted to get you off and I could do it without a major expedition down there. OK?”“I guess I’m being a bit silly.”“It’s your prerogative. I think in the young woman’s handbook it says somewhere you have to be silly sometimes just so I don’t start thinking you’re an actual angel.”She rolled her eyes but smiled. After that we.