Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I’d be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?
Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. – Chloe.
That’s what we all want, isn’t it? Power without price.
He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.
They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, “There’s something we need to tell you,” and from the look on Andrew’s face, I think he expected Derek to say he’d gotten me pregnant.
We’re not naked, we’re skyclad!
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that’s what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
Maturity is highly overrated.
Do I pass, Dr. Saunders?
I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy?
I screwed up. Again. You’re shocked, I’m sure.
I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.
You’d expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.
A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what the hell do you think he’d do with her? Play Parcheesi?
He smiled. Hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug.
Do you really think he untied you?... He was just checking his kids handiwork.