"I think I have to," I told her."Will you come back? I want you to come back." If the transit works, I'll report your planet. If the bureaucracy lets ...e, I will come back." But you do want to come back? You're not just making excuses?" I was just thinking how I could just stay. But that wouldn't work; not for long." Why not?" I ... need people round me. One day, I want children." I could give you children." Could you?" Of course. I am fully functional." If you did, Romy, children need other. Maybe I needed to try the size ten. No, I amended my thought, castingmaybe aside. I wanted to try the next dress. I wanted to try them all.I learned something. Just because two dresses are the same size doesnot mean they are the same size. In the yellow dress I needed the sizeten. Both the black dress and the lovely blue one with delicate lacytrim I needed the twelve. Is that why women try everything on? Was thelittle tag telling the size a guideline and not etched in stone? In myjeans I wore. I did not feel insecure at that as I trusted him completely. I was near the window and after around 15-20 minutes of talking, he was sitting very next to me and talking very normally. I did not react and continued to chat with him.Stations went by and midnight came. He was still sitting right next to me and we were enjoying talking to each other. He used to joke a lot and I am laughing so much. Since it was an AC compartment, I was also freezing all this while. He noticed that and offered me. The Reynolds family made a home for me in Barnwell when I was lost and afraid. At first, I thought they’d hate me, then I was afraid they’d try to make me a substitute for Juliet, but neither happened. I just became their third daughter, sister to Chloe, and friend to Isabela and Luciana – accepted first into their household then into their community – loved and comforted by the family during their time of tragedy. I know I have to get back to Lodi – back to grandfather, and Jessica, Harrison.