"Oh my God! Jason, what's the matter? You look awful. What's wrong?" Go away, Karen. Just go away!" Tears were flowing down my face.She pushed her way...in and I just followed. Passing the kitchen, shenoticed the glass and the tablets, added two and two together and camestraight out with it."Just what do you think you are doing?" Karen spat out the question"Barbara's gone. Just go away Karen!" Like hell I will! I won't let you do anything silly. We've got a cricketmatch to watch."Karen went into. I knew that I should get it over with but I was frightened to the core. The man I had loved for five years but never met was now waiting outside this plane for me. It was all becoming to real and I could not hide behind my computer screen anymore. I was not sure I was ready for this to be real. Finally, as the plane was almost cleared out, I got up enough nerve to stand up and push my way into the isle, grabbing the carry on bag that I had with me. I then made my way off the plane and headed. In short, my life would forever be changed.The question before me that night was quite simple. Was that such a badthing? It took but a second for me to answer that one. Looking about mydark room, I found it was a perfect analogy for my life. It was small,quiet, bereft of any color and quite lonely. A Spartan hoplite wouldhave felt right at home living here. Were it not for my weeklypilgrimage to my sister's, my days would be all but indistinguishable.There was another, less well defined force. ." Sister Nancy retorted. Joan tensed.Just then the women heard some foliage moving off to the right of them...a moment later a similar sound came from their left.Sister Nancy looked toward that last sound, seeing movement. "So we're surrounded. I see you, Abraham!" She turned back to George. "So we give you Jason and you give us Tina back?"Tina looked nervously to George and took hold of Dylan's hand.George smiled. "Nope! We keep Tina and give you Rodney for Jason." He stepped back, took a.