She was a really pretty woman. Beautiful green eyes and nice dimples when she smiled, I could see she had blond hair even though she had on a ball cap.... ‘Jeff, the reason I came over here is to ask you to be my partner.’ I know I had a shocked look on my face. She smiled. ‘Not that kind of partner. Mr. Atkins, our instructor is going to team up the class. I’ve taken his classes before. We work as partners on the different projects. I know a lot of the guys in this class and I don’t care to be. "You will tell me if it starts burning, got it?" Yes, Miss," was my only reply, which seems to please her. After about eight minutes my legs and groin started to tingle so Itell her and she orders me into the shower, and commands me to makesure I use a wash cloth to scrub all of the chemical off. I exit theshower and towel off, as I'm drying, I notice much to my dismay,that I'm completely hairless from the neck down."Tell me Amanda, have you got a girlfriend, or maybe a boyfriend?"Taken by. This was no post- traumatic stress illusion, however - of that I was certain. For one thing, despite my desperate efforts, I wasn't becoming oriented; in fact, quite the contrary. For another, I couldn't capture the sense of being, well, me. Try as I might, I couldn't remember what day of the week, or even month of the year it was. Hell, I couldn't even remember where I was going, or why. Oddly enough, I did know exactly where I was: in front of the drugstore at the corner of Elm and DuMont.. Even as he sipped, he stared at me.“I don’t care to repeat myself,” he swallowed, “What were you were you doing?”My feet were leaden. My lips were locked. I was a green blade of grass beneath his gaze, rooted in place—brittle, and pale, a little bit bent. I blinked slowly, trying to break the spell. Still, he was waiting. I took a deep breath in. Just tell the stupid truth, Penny. And make it sound as sane as possible.“I was taking these down,” I pointed sheepishly over my shoulder, “They’re.
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