In the night I wake and must make vomit, it is a bad feeling. And my head still is not right, though I can think enough to wash my mouth with the brus... Linda gives me before I return to sleep. But when at last I wake and the light is bright outside, my head hurts badly and my stomach is unhappy.Linda is patient with all, which shames me more. She gives me water to drink with something in it to make bubbles, and I drink when she tells me and it is better though I am still not right.Then she. “Maybe you’re pregnant,” Brenda added, answering the phone.“I wish!” She smiled, looking at Dan.“I guess I’m just having early menopause symptoms. I haven’t had a period in about six months,” Karen mentioned.“Angie wants to know if there’s anything you want her and Cindy to bring?” Brenda asked.“Just their hot, sexy bodies,” Karen grinned. She looked at the time on the Grandfather clock, “Cathy, Ben, and Danny should be here soon. Dan, you and Tiffany have enough time to fuck before we get. "Then Steve burst in."Sorry I'm late, guys. I had to go to my first class. There was an assignment I had to turn in, and then he wouldn't let me leave." What time is it?" Charlotte asked.Steve glanced at his watch. "Five after ten. Sheila's downstairs already?" No. She hasn't gotten here yet either," Charlotte said, turning to look at the clock in the kitchen, as though it had a different time than Steve had given."I better call her," I said.I called. Sheila answered, croaking like a weary. “Somebody’s trying to break in,” I whispered. “Call the cops!” I slipped into the hall and peeked around the kitchen door frame just in time to see the green plastic panel that had been set into the middle of the back door crack and scatter across the floor. “This guy has to be crazy,” I thought. “There are two cars in the carport! Does he think there’s no one home?”I moved across the living room and into the kitchen through the far doorway.When we bought this house, it was pretty obvious that.