Marcus held his hand out towards the flowers on her kitchen table. She'd bought them nearly a week ago and they were starting to brown and wilt. As Ju...lie watched, a soft light surrounded them like an aura, the brown faded and the flowers came back to life."So Mindy was right," Julie said in almost a whisper. "Her grandmother really did see you..."Marcus nodded. "Oh, yes. Miss Guadalupe was a wonderful woman. She never abused the privilege of her wishes." I need a drink," said Julie. She went to. I, my mother and a maid were the only occupants of the house. It is a remote house, near the paddy fields, a bit isolated. I spent my days reading, mostly as there was no TV, those days.I had some porn books with me. Only books were available, mainly sex storybooks and rarely some books with photos of nude men and women in different sex positions. I used to hide it among other college books so that my mother will not come to see it. But after a few days, I used to get a feeling that someone is. "hisvoice trailed off. "Really?" said Caroline with mock surprise in hervoice "I'd never have guessed" She jumped up and seized Paul's hand andsaid "Come on Lucy let's see what we can do!" They gathered up theshopping and carried them into the bedroom dropping them on the bed. "OK,everything off" commanded Caroline. "You're not a time waster are you!"giggled Paul. "Don't get any ideas" retorted Caroline "I want to see whatI'm working with, how much work I'll have to do" Paul stripped off. I heard someone calling Miss “X “(my name). I just couldn’t concentrate though. The muffled voices sounded nearer now. The beers and the margaritas combined with the sun just had me listless. AsI kept drifting in and out of my dream world. I felt a hand on my thigh and I heard a voice saying push her shoulder, let’s roll her on her back. I rolled with the gentle pushes and lay on my back. I heard something like “dude Ritchie’s mom is wicked sick “I thought I’m not sick I’ve just had a few too.