" Beth shivered as she entered the closet. Oh my. My darling birlis growing up faster than I thought.Beth paused in the closet doorway, glancing over ...Sandy's room. It was atypical birl's room for the son of a fairly successful businesswoman. SinceAlexandra was the apple of his mother's eye, it might have been a littlemore ornate than his friends', but a mother was entitled to spoil heryoungest a little. And he was so sweet, almost never needing corner timesince the Terrible Twos, that Beth. She had a really disgusted look on her face."Yeah, what about it" What's her expression like? Does she look pissed?"I looked again without trying to be too obvious about it. She definitely looked pissed off at something."Oh yeah Dan she's pissed off all right. What the hell did you do to her?" Shit! I sure hope she doesn't recognize me, I rolled right off as soon as it happened. Let's move over to the other side of the water and I'll tell you about it."As soon as it was clear, I asked Dan what. He had not told his father that Francine had her first cycle, but he had not been able to fulfil his promise.He sometimes wondered if his desire to reproduce but his failures had also affected his mind. Each time he failed, he seemed to get more desperate. He knew now that the spells his father had on him had reinforced that desire and probably warped his thinking.The confusion he had felt when his father had died had almost overwhelmed him. It felt as if a weight had been lifted off his soul.. Of the Friends First - Lovers Later kind. Thank you, Francie.Sniffer arrived five minutes early and rang her buzzer. None of this fashionably late crap for him! She buzzed him in and this time he showed more respect for the staircase than he had before. He arrived at her door with only slight puffs. A thirty second pause, with one hand on the door jamb, his head bowed, cleared that trouble up.She opened the door and they did their hellos. Then he pulled that old magical.