Then, at 10, the DJ would crank up the music, and our sunken family room would transform into a dancefloor.Jude started drinking around 6, first wine,... then frozen margaritas once the machine was ready. She was loose and happy by the time the first guests began to arrive, just before 8. The Clarks, as usual, were early. Some of her yoga ladies and their plus-ones came after that. I herded everyone inside and got everyone drinks.By 8:30, Marcel was a no-show, but so was Jude’s best friend Melissa. Tell me its all right. Ben looked her in the eyes and said Its all right. Its going to be all right. Are you just going to fuck me and leave me? No, he said. I want this to last. What will we tell Mom? No one ever has to know but us. I swear. Kiss me, she said, and he did, passionately, intensely. Now with an urgency they both felt, they tugged off both of their tops and Janes bra. Jane straddled him and they embraced sitting on the couch. Ben kissed his way down Janes neck, along her. ''We'll be hanging here like a hair on a biscuit, Ma'am,'' I retorted.The hilarity that followed mocking her most particular wardrobe and a few passes all around of the bong was all the time it took before her headlights swung wildly into the yard and she stepped out of the Lincoln dangling her keys off her fingers.We all just stood there, jaws agape, eyes bugging clean out our heads!She was fine as frog hair split three ways!Once again I scanned her form top to bottom, my peepers taking extra. “Kill all your friends.”The cop's eyes went dull. He rose mechanically, turned his shotgun, and opened fire. Abigail laughed. Pandemonium swept through the cops guarding the front of Faust Tower. Samantha swept through the police as mist. Where she passed, men screamed. A crimson hue spread through her pearly fog. The SUV came to a crashing halt against the security gate of the building's parking garage. The vehicle had half penetrated through the metal partition, sheering the metal links. The.