So I looked down at thefloor."Now, here's how it's gonna be, Mr. Green. You'll go with Bettyto Foundations, and then you'll report back here to me for...urther instructions. Is that understood?"It was that scratchy, female voice of hers again. She wasobviously crazy, so using my head, I figured, humor her and thenrun!"Okay," I said."That's a good boy. As a matter of fact," pressing the intercom,she screeched, "Send Betty on in."No sooner had Betty, who I'd know from recent liaisons in my. I could feel as my heart began to race. “Who said anything about boys?” she asked, mischievously. At that moment our lips met, her hands left mine and they traveled to my face. I was in a trance at the moment. “What are you guys doing?!” The trance had ended and I snapped back to reality. I pushed Naomi from on top of me and rolled onto my hands and knees. My older sister, Lily stood in the doorway, staring at the two of us. “Don’t tell mom, please,” I begged her. “Fine, just don’t do it. Suddenly her hair was in his face as she hugged him. Her face had gone to his left side, by happenstance, and it was his left cheek that she kissed, her lips pressing against the angry scars there.“It’s all right,” she whispered into his ruined, but still functional ear. She kissed his ravaged skin again, making it plain that she didn’t care about that skin ... that it didn’t repel her. His right arm went around her, partly to stabilize him, and partly because he needed the contact. She had that aggressive look in her eyes – the look I remembered seeing just before my last surgery.Colleen and I had made sure there were plenty of snacks and refreshments out for when the girls returned, and we enjoyed small talk as we all munched. The early April weather was unseasonably cool, and it was supposed to drop into the high thirties by midnight. We had no plans to go out. An evening in, with the gas fireplace adding warmth and ambiance to the atmosphere, sounded most excellent..