” Alice pats his hand as she smiles at him.Joe smiles while he says, “Well, that’s a few years in the future. Right now we’ve got to get you o...ganised for the next several months. The doctors don’t want you to move from that bed for three or four months, as a start. Then another four months or so here in the hospital. So we need to get you organised to spend the next several months or more right here. That gives us plenty of time to see what we have to organise at home to have another permanent. ”“Really?” Dan asked. He hadn’t given a second thought about what Alison had ordered for dinner.“That’s right,” Diana said. She looked at him and asked, “What about dessert?”“We shared a chocolate dessert,” Dan answered. The meal had been filling, but the waitress had described the dessert in words that were too tempting to refuse. Since neither of them had wanted to eat an entire dessert he had suggested that they share one.“You shared?” Diana asked.“Yes,” Dan answered. Listening to his sister. “Now those stupid shorts,” she said in a normal voice. “As far as I’m concerned, all of you little slugs should be naked all the time.” That shocked me. She was a bride of Christ.“But don’t they say...”“Shut up! When I require you to speak, I’ll tell you. Now those silly underwear.” I complied. “There you go,” she said with a smile that said something else.“Turn around, boy.” Her hand described circles in the air. I turned a full circle and returned to face her. I mean, I turned a full circle. She knew it took a couple of hours for them to start working on her lower back muscle before the inevitable spasms would commence in a few short hours.When she came back to full consciousness at the bottom of the stairs, she remembered yelling something like,"Oh shite!" or was it "Fecking bleeding hell!"?Whatever, it was not something to be reprinted anywhere except in an erotic short story.As she limped out into the kitchen, Masie realized she now had a blossoming center of pain in her left.