I just wanted to know how long, or if you were gay too, and she just sat there so quietly, and I just asked her to kiss me. I'm sorry, I don't know wh..., I'm not that kind of mother, who steals her daughter's boyfriends!"Then Debbie said. "Well, girlfriend in this case." And a pause, "Did you like it too?" And her mom stared at her for a moment, and that shy smile came back, "Yes, yes I did." And then Debbie smirked, and said to me, "Why don't you kiss her again then. I think I'd like to see you. I really just need to give up on that hope and get ho-BOOOM.I honestly can't believe what just happened. When I said I wanted something interesting to happen in my life, THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT. I was just walking home from school like any other day, when some moron in a viper was texting and driving, didn't see the red light, and hit me as I was walking across the crosswalk. Next thing I know, I'm on the ground in the middle of the road. People around me are calling the cops, one guy is. She had to think. There was the practical side of things and there was the emotional side of things. The emotional side would always trump the practicalities when it came to Julian. He’d suffered so much. Yes, she had to think. And more, she had to tell the man, whatever it was that she decided when she got done thinking.She smiled her welcome. “Right on time, a girl always loves it when her man is on time; it shows he is anxious to be with her,” she said.“Anxious would be an understatement,” I. He gives me a second then smiles. ‘Just start at the beginning.’ ‘That may take awhile,’ I warn him. ‘Well, till I run out of bread crumbs the pigeons have nothing better to do.’ He tosses out a hand full of crumbs. They cluster around us hunting the ground. ‘And they are the busy ones.’ I nod slowly. ‘Okay.’ I take a breath. ‘Well, to begin with my Mom recently got divorced.’ ‘Is she the woman?’ he asks giving his cane a twist till the dog head is looking at me. ‘What? No … lord no. I mean I.