" Tom said as he clamped his hand over his mouth.He thought: Why did I just say that. I never even talk to girls that way, letalone guys."The plumbers...just shrugged their shoulders and got their camera out of thetruck and took images along the inner pipe. The results was that they need totear up part of the kitchen and living room to get at other bad pipesections."When evening came, they had a nice trench made from the bathroom all the wayto the center of the living room. With it reaching 5 in. Kathleen and I got in at dusk and put the horses to bed. She put her hand in mine as we crossed the stable yard, so I gave her a little kiss and thanked her for her company. She was blushing a little as we made our way into the kitchen for supper. By the expressions on their faces Angela and Skye had both noticed and the ‘plan’ went into phase two. By ten o’clock that night Angela and Jack had gone to bed, leaving Skye, Kathleen and me sitting round in the parlour. Skye was in disgrace, as. “Finally!”I glanced around, my old sleeping bag was laid out on a cot in one corner of the room, with Delaney’s blanket and pillows from home. “How long have you been here?”She grinned wickedly. “Since about an hour after I busted that asshole’s nose. He kept saying you weren’t my real dad.”The Sheriff sighed. “She came right in the vehicle bay door and hid in here. Found her after we transferred you. I didn’t trust that the Agent, so we let them look all over the state. I couldn’t even get in. "We can do a lot better than that."Ricky broke off. "Let's get out of these bodies. This is freaking meout. I want to be me again." No, wait." Wait? What the hell for?" Listen to me," I said, folding my arms. "We have an opportunity here; aunique opportunity."She looked at me quizzically and there was suddenly nothing in herexpression or posture that said Ricky. She looked exactly like a womanand that made me feel oddly more like a man. I'd always been thethinker, the one in control but now.