I guess I can live until then.' She was going to have to schedule her days closely. In three hours, she would be good for the next ten, then she'd be ...iding under a thought dampener for the next twenty hours after that, then the little moon would swing back behind Mars, giving her, at a rough calculation, another ten hours of relief.She looked up Earth's rotation periods. She could read them, but she couldn't calculate in her head how to figure when which surface would be on its 'night' side. Last night.When I got my halo.I strange idea popped into my head. There were so many people here. Could I really do this without exploding my brain. I tightened my hand tight about Cherry's hand again, that tingling increasing. My brow furrowed. This was... interesting.“Come on,” I said. “Let's do it.”She blinked at that as I led her towards the small stage we set up. Some commands to the college's administration got all this set up. There was a microphone, ready to amplify my commands to all. My parents were almost jumping out of their shoes when I reached them. My Mom had tears streaming down her face and I’m pretty sure my Dad was crying, too. Miss Miller had a smile on her as big as the state of Texas. They all hugged me.“James, I’m so proud of you. You have become such a good pianist,” my mother cried.“James and I need to go back to the hotel and talk about his performance while it’s still totally fresh in both our minds,” Miss Miller said.“That’s fine. We’ll stay and listen to. “I’ll have whatever this beautiful lady here is having.”Her cheeks instantly turning a bright shade of red from his words which only brought his smile to curl up on his lips.“I would like to offer an apology to you, Dani. If you’d let me.” I said to her.She turned back to look at me, confusion on her features and her head tilting to the side and as if now suddenly realizing that her sweater had one of her shoulders bare she quickly pushed it up to cover herself. “A-apologize? For what? Trying.