She’d had a date, the saleswoman remembered the next morning. She’d been looking forward to it for a week - Tim, his name was, or Tom. Something s...hort. But she’d been so obsessed by the idea of getting home and getting her favorite vibrator between her legs, she’d completely blanked on seeing ... was it Todd? ... until she’d noticed three missed calls and two messages on her phone.A second date was looking unlikely, but that was okay. Who needs men, she told herself, when you’ve got friends. I made it a point to learn everything I could about her, driven by a desire to know her completely. I was so eager I belatedly realized I was talking too much: asking too many questions and really starting to drag on her. We paid for the groceries and then we headed for Saya's apartment. This was her opportunity to cook for me and spend some time at her place.Once there, Saya ordered me into the living room and refused to let me near the kitchen, despite my intentions to help out. "You are not. "Open it." Honey urged.Beth and Honey had spent most of Thursday afternoon wrapping all of the gifts that they had bought for Sugar. Honey said that she wanted to make it like Christmas for her sister when she opened them.I didn't think it would be easy to find Christmas paper in August, but Bethany did it by contacting most of our friends and asking them for their leftover wrapping paper. Of course she had to explain why she needed the wrapping paper, so now all of our friends were aware that. Putting your needs first without caring about her feelings.”One of the strangers, whose trail name was Butch, let go of Claudia’s arm, and the other stranger held both of her arms behind her back. He walked over to where Spike and the 4th stranger was holding Kyle, and punched Kyle hard in the face. Then he punched him in the stomach, and then again on the other side of his face. Kyle started crying while Claudia shouted for them not to hurt him.Spike whispered in his ear, “not so tough now,.