Eyeing the sky periodically as he drove, Jason made the ten minute trip in normal time as he parked behind the row of businesses that lined the main s...reet of Hicksville, Ohio. Hicksville is a sleepy little mid-west town, population of about 3700 in the upper western part of the state near the Indiana border. He worked at ‘Leslie’s Book Store and Gifts’, a medium-sized shop that had done reasonably well in the five years of its existence. Leslie Steele, the owner, would already be inside. Finally, at five after five, the meeting was adjourned. My fellow employees must have thought I need to use the bathroom pretty bad, judging from how fast I raced out of there. With no privacy in the office, I had to rush down the block to the nearest pay phone to call her back. I called the most recent number which had come through seven minutes earlier. My fingers trembled and it took three tries to actually get the quarter into the coin slot. My heart raced as the phone rang once... twice.... ‘Ohh chocolate,’ Claire said. Jessica laughed. ‘Did you meet with Owen?’ Cal wanted to know. ‘Yes,’ Claire answered. Cal looked furious. ‘I met his fiancee,’ Claire added. ‘He wanted to tell me that he was sorry for blaming me for not getting pregnant, that it turns out it’s his fault,’ Claire said. Jessica grinned. ‘You still should have waited for me to be there,’ Cal growled. ‘I’m a grown woman Cal, and meeting with my ex-husband has nothing to do with you!’ Claire shouted. ‘You’re pregnant. Tyler told himself that he’d be quick, as quick as possible, barely even sit down.He sighed and buttoned the top button on his jeans and ran over to the far toilet, undid the top button on his jeans and quickly, in one fell swoop, pulled both his jeans and underwear down to his ankles and sat down. Tyler had never imagined himself going to the bathroom as quickly as he did then; everything just came out in one fell swoop as if his life depended on his swiftness. Tyler realized that he was.