Julia's voice was on the other end."I'm glad you came back, dear. Max would have been most unhappy if you hadn't." Julia, I've got to talk to you," An...n pleaded. "You don't understand my position."It's too late now, dear, but remember this, you had better be real good to Max. He has the photographs and he might give them to you if you please him--and don't be late, he won't like it." But Julia..." Ann cried almost desperately."Another thing," Julia interrupted, "Max likes brief, black. So he was out with his friends mostly when he wasn’t at class. Anyways, back to the point. I’m still a senior in High School at this point. I came home from school on a Friday and no one was home, which wasn’t an uncommon occurrence. I knew my parents wouldn’t be home for at least three more hours and I figured my brother may not even come home today so I went upstairs to my room to rub one out, something I felt I needed after a long week of classes. I was home alone so it didn’t even occur to. ) Sally said, ‘What?’ ‘OOPS!’ Ted said, and then silence. Sally looked at me funny, I lied and said I didn’t hear anything. She still had a puzzled look on her face when she left. Some things I haven’t explained yet, things like that scare people. I did as my man told me, he lives here now, he always will. I tried to explain it to Jon, and that Ted isn’t jealous. Jon looked at me strangely but said nothing. In fact, Ted is happy and pleased for me. He loves me, I know this. To some, I am. Xera raised her bow, arrow knocked, standing calm, naked and unaffected by the chill in the air.A wind rose, growling from the east. The column came closer and closer. Faoril suddenly grunted. Flurries of air exploded before the part, whipping at the mud of the road and the grass growing up the hillock. It blew over green blades, ripping up entire swaths tufts. Faoril cocked her head, skirmishing with the master mage.The wind howled louder from the east, drowning out the gale whipped up by the.