Why don't you continue to work to bring Connie back home to the states? In the meantime, you could move in here with me since I have all of this room....I think that would be good to help convince immigration and the state department that you have everything it takes to make a good home for her. Don't you agree?"He seemed to be considering what I had said but then he paused."I don't know that moving in here would be a good idea. We aren't married any longer and I don't know how it would look.. Expecting Todd any minute, Katie bounced down the stairs to say goodbye to her parents. “Oh, you look lovely, dear,” her mother said with a little smile, as she returned to the kitchen to refill her wine glass.”Thanks, mom.”As the doorbell rang, her dad gave her a little pat on her butt. “Have a good time, honey. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”Katie gave him a little peck on his cheek and winked. “Don’t worry, dad, I won’t,” she replied as she slipped out the door.Todd met her at the door and. Their shadows on her face slithered down too, mirroring their counterparts’ progress down the glass. Grey-black snakes, tearing down her profile, absorbed by the black shirt she wore. Her eyes stared unseeing out into the empty night. Today. Samhain. Here it was, the time when the membrane between this world and that one was the thinnest, when they could slip through and be together again. Maybe. If she was lucky. The phone beeped softly. She looked at it and frowned. She wasn’t expecting any. "What is wrong with you?" Jacob yells. "What's wrong with me?" I yell back, "What's wrong with me? You're about to got to university and you still act like a fucking ten year old!" "I'm just excited about the animals!" Jacob insists, "I'm going to be a biologist, so shouldn't I be excited about what my career is going to be?" You'll never make it through biology courses," I laugh, "you can't even tell when a woman makes a pass on you, how are you going to tell the difference between red and.