Occasionally we would have a drink and head back to my place for a screw. Sometimes I would hook up with a boy or girl. Most evenings I would watch te...lly and read. I might go across the road for a Guinness or a snakebite with my mother, but I was not a regular drinker. My mother, on the other hand, was out every night. Some nights she would stay out, some nights she would come home alone and we would talk for a while, and some nights she would bring someone home, so I would stay in my room.One. "Helena; I want to see you and Karen in my office in ten minutes, please." Your office, Sylvester? Why on earth your office? What's wrong with the lounge?" Because I said so, Helena."The Chairman's wife was not entirely stupid, and knew when, for whatever reason, her husband was going to have his way. His daughter, however, did not have that much sense and refused to accompany her mother."Sylvester, Karen just flatly refused to come." Very well. I'll deal with her separately. She won't enjoy. Before I could think of an answer she launched into a full scale rant about me being a little pervert skulking in the bushes watching her and the boy. I guess she was not far wrong.I was already the colour of beetroot and having visions of this spreading all round both the girls and boys school and the shame that would result. I decided honesty and a friendly apology was the only thing to do."I was just walking home having a fag out of sight and just happened to see you and your boyfriend,. He just barely kept his footing, gasping. Warm, wet blood trickled through his hair and down the left side of his face, half blinding him.But after the initial shock, Eigis was not very upset. Actually the demon chuckled as he pulled the dagger out of his own body, the wavy blade dark with his own unnatural blue-black blood.Hiryu watched, horrified and fascinated, as the wound closed and shrank and soon disappeared without even the trace of a scar.“A brave but useless attempt,” The demon.