" the teenage voice said."Maxine, I have been getting calls all afternoon," she said first thing."Nice to hear from you too. Glad you are doing well. ...Now exactly what can I do about that?" I asked."Billy will sign on Wednesday of next week. My paralegal is over at the courthouse now. You have a meeting at the Savings and Loan to negotiate a pay off on Monday at 1pm. We can have the letter of intend ready for Billy to sign on Wednesday. That will make all of it legal by the end of next week,". “I cannot do this Dave…not to you…but I must…the voice tells me you must die. I love you though. Help me.” She struck her blade down inches in front of me, kicking me in my chest, sending me sprawling backwards a few feet. “Fight me Dave!” She paused, pulling her blade from the ground, very slowly stepping towards me. “You must fight me…there is no other choice.”I barely got up in time, forming my shield to fend off her next strike. “There is always another choice my love.”She swung again. I was a chemistry major, but all that was going to get me was a job. I wanted something that would teach me useful things, like how to fix a toilet. I went to my job after school and on weekends. It wasn’t hard work, but a lot of times customers would ask me questions I couldn’t answer. They’d be looking for a particular kind of bolt I never heard of or parts for a faucet I didn’t know. That’s when I would have to ask one of the old guys. Lou was okay, but Jack always tried to make me feel like. I’m also a professional bullshit detector, and you are one of the most honest people I’ve ever met. Whenever anyone got you talking about if the girls might be sextuplets or octuplets, you seemed sure that girls weren’t. When the girls are around each other, they act how they do around other kids their age. They are pulled to April like a magnet whenever April shows up, even if they aren’t in the same room. She is clearly an alpha female, with a birthday the same as the twins. If she didn’t.