I was being teased about the packages under the tree, which I had no way of examining. Jessica and I also had unexpected visitors showing up at random... times.Jessica and I knew what prompted that. She was home from school and there wasn't a good way for everyone else to change their work schedule. That meant there were times we were alone together. Sometimes long periods of time.It was a good thing that Theresa had purchased Tim's gift for me before they got into the fight over Jessica and. It could not have come with a better fanfare. In the after glow of the rapturous experience, she dozed off to sleep.When she woke up, peter was still asleep in one corner of the bed. Suresh was lying next to her. He must have woken up at the same time as she did. He smiled at her. She smiled back. He put his arms around her and pulled her against his body. “hey i want to talk to you.”“shhhh,” she asked him to be quiet as she did not want peter to wake up.“let us get dressed and go out side the. He had scars here and there on his body that he had no idea where they had come from. The fact that he remembered nothing before two years ago probably went along with the scars. The boy and the girl were both dressed in their underwear and had been sleeping in the girl’s bed. Her parents were gone, as usual, on a business trip. The boy, Nick, sat up and untangled himself from the sheets and tossed them up to the girl. She caught them and slid them over her as she rolled back onto the bed. The. His little girl was resting against the spider’s body, caressing his legs with her hands. Valo shook his head. Back when he had thought that maybe his little girl was still alive, he had grown accustomed to the thought that she might birth abominations for being with a butterfly. But seeing her rest in the arms, or rather legs, of an abomination would take some getting used to. Great love. Valo had no choice but to get used to it. The two could not be separated. The old blind seer, the healer.