She was a joy to sit with. She talks in her sleep. Did you know that? Very good imagination ... she said someone tried to kill you." He watched as mot...er crumbled. "Now what have I said to make you go all white like that?"Sit and let me check your pulse. Some one Did try to kill you?"Mother mumbled a faint explanation. Typical mother ... her baby is safe, the rest doesn't matter."Mrs. Austin ... are you in a family way? Would you stop by my office tomorrow? My card."She took the card and. Say more than ‘goodbye’ to each other and I’m going to the principal.” I left the room in a huff, slamming the door with all of my might behind me.I didn’t fucking care if Megan wasn’t okay. I wasn’t okay. I felt anger with her, but oddly, I also felt angry about her. It was like I was angry at whatever she was slowly turning into. I slumped against the wall. Megan was borderline more dangerous a creature than May. May knew what she was doing, but Megan was clueless. Somehow, even though I was. "Now we're going to put you under just enough to safely performthe procedure, the hormones are going to put your body through a whole lotin a short time so you're likely going to sleep pretty solidly for the nextfew days while you recover and adjust."She continued, "You''ll have a bit of a baby bump when you wake up, but notenough to be noticeable unless you want it to." I looked at herquizzically, "If you want to wear street clothes home when you're ready,then you can but if you would like to. My dad used to tell me we’d scare the fish, but I later realized he just wanted me to shut up so he could fish in peace. Anyway, of course, eventually the subject of sex came up, and it came up more than once.“Have you seen the new redhead down the hall from the lab?” Tom asked me one Saturday. I told him I hadn’t. He went on to describe her in glowing terms. Having met Vanessa, hearing Tom extol the charms of this young secretary made me sure to try to get a peek at her.It was mostly that kind.