I thought I'd been doing pretty damned good for my first six months here.She smiles slightly. "In a way." She pushes her chair back from the desk, lea...ning back a little. "Your performance here in the past several months has been adequate." Adequate? Great. That's not too far above "sucky". She leans back a bit farther in her chair, crossing her legs and putting one of her shoes on the desk. "In some cases, more than adequate." Hooray. I'm jumping for joy. "But let's ignore that for the time. Lilly looked up at him. He had something behind his back, and at that moment, he tossed it at her. It was her backpack, and it was open. Candy from the party scattered onto the floor. Her too-short shorts laid just within the bag. “Sit on your ass.” His words startled her and she didn’t move. He grabbed her hair. “I said sit on your fucking ass!” She shrieked slightly before pushing her feet forward and falling back onto her ass. He immediately leaned forward, pushing his shoulder. Jenny took pictures as we worked, and of the huge fire afterword. I admit I did get a little carried away. I burnt everything including the furniture from our bedroom. I even went so far as to burn her favorite chair from the den as well as all her little knick knacks from around the lodge. If the object wasn't flammable, it went in the dumpster.Later that week, I mailed the newspaper article along with the bonfire pictures to Judith's office. I wrote on the envelope, "To be opened by addressee. ”Now he released her hand and turned to me. He was a big man, in his mid-thirties and by the look of his ears he had been doing some wrestling or boxing at some point of his life. His shoulders were still wide and hands muscular, but something in his behavior meant that some of that muscle had come from steroids rather than from intensive training. I stepped even closer.“I told you to get lost.”I smiled at him while I came so close that I almost touched him. At that point any sensible man would.