Wishes by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
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Published: 2010-05-05T01:32:18.796000+00:00

"I'll get her," Terel whispered. "If I die trying, I'll keep her from taking what's mine."

She turned away from Nellie and smiled at the young man near her. For all the world she seemed to be enjoying herself, but in her mind she was concocting a plan.

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Chapter Eight

THE KITCHEN

Berni stepped out of the bathtub and once again looked at her list. She didn't know how long she'd been in the Luxury room, but it was long enough to have chosen three things from the list.

After having given Nellie her three wishes, Berni entered the Luxury room and was given a long list of pleasures from which to choose. Since she'd spent the previous fourteen years partying, the first thing she chose from the list was "videos."

Following golden lights through the fog, she entered an enormous room filled with shelves of videos of every movie ever made, plus every episode of every TV show. She had merely to look at the titles and they were chosen for her. After choosing a few hundred movies and old TV shows—everything Mary Tyler

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Moore had ever done and all the early "Bonanza" episodes—she followed the lights to a beautiful bedroom. The bed, covered with two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar sheets and pillowcases trimmed with handmade lace, was high off the floor and as soft as down (there were no "good for you" orthopedic mattresses in the Kitchen). She lay in bed for a very long while, eating endless bowls of buttery popcorn and watching one video after another. She didn't even have to get out of bed to change the tapes, and when Mel Gibson was kissing someone the tape automatically slowed its speed.

After many, many videos she got out of bed and looked at her list. The next luxury she chose was "friendships with women." On earth Berni had never had any women friends, but she had always heard and even believed that other women had solid, loving friendships with each other. So, for a long period of time, Berni had women friends. They went shopping together, giggled together, had lunch. Her friends gave her a birthday party, and they were always there to listen to her. When one of her friends broke up with her boyfriend, Berni stayed up all night with her.

But Berni grew tired of listening to other people, so she looked at her list again. This time she chose "bubble bath." She sat in a large, soft bathtub full of hot water and lots of bubbles, read trashy novels, ate chocolate-covered cherries, and drank pink champagne. The water never grew cold; the bubbles never burst; the books were always good and the candy and champagne delicious.

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Now, leaving the tub, she was looking at her list again. "New clothes" intrigued her. On earth she'd realized that the only clothes she really liked to wear were new ones. She would have liked to wear something only once, then discard it. "Kids who behave like those on TV" also interested her. There was also "winning prizes" and "being popular in high school" and "being appreciated.

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