I walked over tohim just like he asked me to and I stood in front of his desk as I said, "Umm... Okay. So, what did you wanna tell me?..." Lenny looke... at me in my eyes as he said, "Some of the staff are getting a little SUSPICIOUS of our private sessions after schoul and I've heard them talk about us... I don't like whatthey are saying Tony, so..." I braced myself for those words that I knew would come shortly after and I felt terrible inside for even letting a thing like this happen in the. "I'm much better off with the elves than I was with my mother. I have friends here whereas there really is no one in the human world that I really care about. I now have a woman who loves me and I love in return. It's really the confinement that depresses me. I've escaped now but I haven't really escaped at all." For no real reason, tears sprang to my eyes and I started quietly sobbing."Come back inside Henry and talk to me about it." Mrna placed a hand gently on my shoulder and guided me. I would rather we progress to care about each other as important individuals valuable to God and to each other.” I hated myself for that speech until she gave me a hard, quick kiss.“You say the right things. I have no school work to do this weekend. I want to see you all day and into the evening tomorrow and I-I.” She hesitated. I smiled at her. “I want us to go to church as a couple Sunday and spend the rest of the day together.”I smiled even bigger. “That is my fervent wish for this weekend.”. His practiced, zig-zag motions, as he went around chair and table legs, was almost beautiful to watch. Bobby’s phone appeared in front of her face.“She wants to talk to you,” said Bobby. He looked sheepish.It was an unexpected moment of significance in Mindy’s life. She was aware of that, but only in an unformed, mystical sort of way. She could have apologized to Bobby’s mother and said it would never happen again and nothing would have changed. Her life could have gone on just as it was. But.