How could you hide nails like that? What would I do at the end of the two weeks? I knew enough about it to realize that even if I cut them off, they�...�d be unnaturally thick. ‘Let’s go, Sheila, we’ve got plenty still to do. Now it’s time for some clothes shopping. With a gorgeous bod and sexy face like you have, we have to get you some ‘hot’ outfits to match.’ I slowly emerged from my state of shock, and wished I hadn’t. I was drawing even more attention now. The way men were staring at me left. It had been just a few weeks short of a year since that totally unforeseen landslide had taken my life and love from me. I felt ashamed that when I pictured Annie the edges were fuzzy—I had to refer to old photos to recreate the images of our life together. Along with that fuzziness had come over me recently a profound loneliness. Not that I didn’t have people around me, I did, but this was a different kind of being alone. This was reaching over in the middle of the night to touch a warm loved. He shouted, "Open up! We will not harm you if you give us your valuables!" The answer was a shotgun blast to his face. His horse found this to be a disagreeable attitude and ran away.This action resulted in the raiders firing mostly unaimed shots harmlessly at the fort from out of pistol range. There was answering rifle fire from the fort which killed or seriously wounded seven raiders. Eight down and fifty-two to go!There was great jubilation within Fort York, and Bill on the roof, and Sarah. " Oh it will be great. You'll see. We watched New Girl and sat comfortably, as we always did, eating chips and sipping red wine. "You've got red wine lips," I told her. "Oh," she said, touching her lip coyly. "Let me." I leaned in and kissed her. Her eyes widened. "Casey!" "I want to help you out. You're beautiful, and you do plenty of favours for me. So let me satisfy you." "It's just the wine," she frowned. "Yeah, right," I said. "I plotted this at 0 alcohol. Scout's honour." I leaned.