"Well you're not having mine," I say, making George snort."Nah, I don't want her anyway, can't even pronounce her name," Georgeshrugs, though I can te...ll from his voice that he's not telling the wholetruth."Well, Laura's now single," I say, grimacing as George scrunches up hisface at the thought of going out with my friend."Ugh, no thank you!" George spits. "I prefer my girls to NOT havedicks!" She has boobs, though," I shrug. "That just makes it worse," George snorts. "That makes it a boy. I should have known -they may have chosen the present, but it's us that are paying for it, evenif we don't get to see our own money anymore."Terry, darling," she turned to him, "Your present is waiting for you inthe bedroom."Without a word, Terry scurries upstairs, Ellen joins the girls around thekitchen table and we're again left to ourselves.None of us speaks until the sandwiches are gone."You think they'll let us go out later?" John asks, breaking the silencewith a rather soft, almost. Any resemblance to anyone, either alive or dead,is purely coincidental. Prologue I had known her since fourth grade, her family had moved into to our neighborhoodthat summer and she and her two twin brothers had all started school that year.Kelly was a year older than the twins but her parents had held her back sothey would all be in the same grade. I was always attracted to her, findingher beautiful even way back then. Through junior high and high school she hadalways been very athletic,. He dragged the rest of the antelope into the brush some distance away in hopes of not attracting predators to his camp; it was a shame to waste good meat, but he did not have the time to jerk any more of it if he was going after the rest of the soldiers.The next morning, Black Wolf found the trail left by the soldiers and their captives and followed them for several miles. The soldiers must have thought themselves safe, since they did not make any effort to set out guards on their flanks as.