He drew her near him, and kissed her on the forehead, ‘I love you mom” drifting off to sleep. Loud clap of thunder followed instantly by a bolt of...lightning propelled them both from bed. “Oh my God,” was shouted by each. Running downstairs, body hair tingling, and out to the barn, checking and calming the livestock. “Thank God for lightning rods,” David said. Rain pounding now hard on the roof drowned out the words spoken by his mother. Four o’clock read the wall clock. Soft strokes of their. Caller ID let me know it was Jeannie."I guess you must think you've won some great victory, Gary?" As always, since our separation, and subsequent divorce, Jeannie's tone of voice with me carried an angry sounding whine. I knew that the good reverend was listening in to our conversation. He almost always did."Send Dani over here to get her money back. She needs to buy some clothes that don't make her look like some fifty year old spinster librarian." I'll do no such thing!" If she isn't here in. Janey, and Paula too for that matter, were both polite and even friendly but something just didn't ring true. It was something he couldn't put his finger on. It wasn't bad, it was just, well, different.Saturday night came and as usual the three of them were the only employees left in the store at closing. In fact they had been the only people for nearly the last hour. No customers meant that the majority of the cleaning and restocking had already been done by the time Paula locked the front. She didn’t even hear them call after her. She hurried to her car and sat behind the steering wheel, trembling and hugging herself.The outfit the two young men so accurately described was the one she had worn under her dress the night she and Tom had stopped at Dan’s apartment. The night when she couldn’t remember anything that happened. The night when she remembered arriving at Dan’s, and remembered nothing else until she woke up in her own bed the next morning.Her mind screamed. The dreams..