She had heard what I said but took the cover off a trolley and set to work between my open legs; she wiped my cunt with a rough sponge and then swabbe...d my slit with iodine. It stung and I felt tears forming in my eyes. She lifted a needle from the tray and delivered four sharp injections that made me sob, but the pain faded in seconds and I realised I was numb, still having my clit yet feeling as if it was already gone - and it was not a bad feeling, it was a sense of freedom and peace. "Can. Whatever. I know this – I hate shopping and I’ll never ever, not in a hundred years, understand how anyone can possibly enjoy time spent in Tesco’s. So what am I doing with a Tesco’s bag in one hand and a Thresher’s bag in the other? Well you already know about the caffeine shortage. Steve loses all his superpowers without at least one cup of double strength Nescafe an hour. Then there’s the washing powder. When a pretty girl commandeers your kitchen to cook you dinner, you put clean sheets on. Like in the movies." Before I could finish the toast, Jennifer came up and linked our armstogether so that her drink in her hand was in front of my lips and mine wasin front of hers. "Drink only to me with thine eyes." She said. Before I realized what she/he was doing, she began pouring her drink inmy mouth and it was headed down my throat. I started to panic and in mypanic I swallowed. Suddenly the world around me started to shift asdifferent realities started to merge. The room. Garland is strung up and down the stairwell. Stockings are hung by the fireplace that is as cold and dark as my heart. Sitting in my favorite chair I look up on the wall to the painting we had commissioned on our eighth Wedding Anniversary, a portrait of my wife Francis holding our newborn twin daughters Alexis and Amanda. That half Mona Lisa smile haunts me. I used to tease her about it. Usually when she smiled she did it with her whole face. Her mouth would be wide open, teeth flashing, and.