" Um!" Tiffany winced as she sat down and I caught Mom's smirk, but mostly I avoided her as much as I could.That turned out to be even harder than I t...ought it would."I understand Candice has been a little upset lately," she said. "Do you know anything about that, Josh?" Uh, no..." I cleared my throat. "Not really." Hmph." Mom wore a doubtful look as she churned a bowl full of eggs with a fork. "Her mother thinks it might have something to do with you." Did you two have a fight?" Dad asked,. As tonight had illustrated she could do nothing for herself. Whether she ate, drank,or had clean clothes depended on someone else to do for her. Lisaconstantly feared that one day she would lose her mother or her brotheror worse yet, both of them.Lisa's other complaint was lack of involvement. She could not play withothers. She could only sit and watch. It was the reason she bothloathed and loved video games. She could sit before the TV all day andhave some interaction with the game but it. He said yes it is. He said I haven't been home in three weeks, my truck is being unloaded tonight and I'll be pulling out tomorrow headed back north. My wife said I don't like pulling out, then she giggled. He said sometimes you must. She said I'd rather leave it in. He said I prefer to leave it in myself. I butted in and said are you two talking about trucking or fucking? My wife said I don't know anything about trucking. Roger relaxed and sat back in his seat and took a long sip of his drink.. Once that was done, I showed Aikens how to administer the chloroform; that was to be his job during the operation.I laid everything out where it would be easy to reach and made my first cut. I couldn't help smiling behind my mask as Aikens looked like he was about to pass out when the blood began to flow.Forty-five minutes later, I sewed up my first cut and got ready to let Jed wake up. I had some willow-bark tea ready for him to drink, hoping that he would not need more morphine beyond what I.