I also deliberately took off my wedding ring. I did that for training or before a fight so that I wouldn’t damage it, but I put it into the box this...time and left it there.Jane noticed the difference and came to hug me. “You okay?” she asked sympathetically.“Absolutely,” I told her. “Barb knows the papers are coming. She knows that there’s no chance of us getting back together. The ring is only a symbol. The next time I see her, she’ll have been served.”She nodded, but she felt like it was a. Our room was at the end of the car, with only the wall opposite the bed sharing with another room. The train set out, going in the opposite direction. By the time we hit Santa Barbara, we were kissing again, rolling around on the bed we had pulled out. I had slipped on one of the last condoms we had and was moving between his legs, getting ready to thrust deeply. But I missed my mark and plunged really deep when all I meant to do was probe at him. Then I went to pull back, but pulled out. “Oh my god! I’ve been, like, talking differently.” Kat said.Sai looked at her curiously. “I actually had, like, noticed that. The past few days you’ve been talking a lot more, like, formal. I thought it was a bit weird.”“No that’s not what I, like-” Kat forced herself to say it properly. “That’s not what I mean. I mean that I’m, li-, I’m talking weird now.”“Kat, you’re talking the way you usually do. Are you sure you only had alcohol last night?”Kat slowed down to carefully pick her words.. There were twenty-seven text messages from Sandy, and eleven phone calls, each angrier than the one before. One of the calls had been answered by a nurse, who told Mary’s roommate that Mary wasn’t well. This made Sandy even more furious. Mary wasn’t allowed to get sick, Sandy had written. Mary didn’t get a time out whenever she liked. Mary had to make sure that Mary functioned the way Sandy needed her. Mary needed to be a well-oiled machine. What had Mary been thinking? Now Sandy’s phone was.