A few came and talked to me, apparently I was a minor celebrity in the old neighborhood. Yes, I did live here now. Yes, I was still dancing and would ...be participating in at least some of the monthly festivals. Yes, my outfits were made locally by Madame Wu, she made them herself. Things like that.And I realized how rusty and stilted my Mandarin had gotten. When I got home we changed forms, and I went in to visit Auntie Liling. And she promised to talk with me only in Chinese until I was fluent. She could see that Brittany was fighting a losing battle between her body and her psyche. Emily reflected for a moment that it was not that long ago when the idea of girl-on-girl sex would have disgusted her as well ... that is, until she met Heather.Charli was limiting Brittany's torture to just being forced to watch their amazing sex shows without release. It was within Emily's range of tolerance. She wasn't sure she could stand to watch another beating like the one Charli had unleashed the. ) I remember my excitement growing by the day until by December 24, I was almost vibrating. Then then the day came and we’d open presents (presents!) and have a big meal with relatives and then poof, it was all over. Kind of like air going out of a balloon. Where’d it all go? And then it was 365 shopping days until next Christmas. Sure, there was a lot of commercialism, but the whole thing was fun. I don’t doubt for a moment that I might’ve conflated a bunch of actual memories of Christmases. We went outside and relaxed for a few minutes, i was in a rush with adrenaline from carrying her out in my arms and finding her stuff unbroken, by now the little bit of Ecstasy wore off and i felt normal again just a stoned, so we hung out and sat down in some chairs for a while, drank a little more and she actually wanted to dance some more, what a champion. i was glad i didnt do any more d**gs, i didnt need to this girl was very fun to dance with and i felt amazing not all fucked up, people.