" Oh, sorry," she said as the afterimage of her dream floated across her consciousness."Who the hell is Jeremy, anyway? You called out his name." Uh..... just a kid in Amy's class," she lied, trying to think quickly, "he fell and hurt himself at the class play." Was it serious?" asked her puzzled husband."No, as it turned out, but he scared us all half to death. I guess that's why he was in my dream."Satisfied with her answer, Terry turned over to go back to sleep.Angilee got little sleep the. My breasts were also growing. I becamesuspicious of the suppositories being something else. I took them, thelubricating cream, and the anti-biotic pills to the pharmacy. Thepharmacist said the pills were hormone replacement therapy estrogen pills.He couldn't identify the cream, but thought it might be the same thingbased upon the shape of the tube. The suppositories he said looked likestandard suppositories for hard stools.I continued to use the suppositories, but switched to a regular lube. "Ok then", I said, "What's it to be?". "First you've got to promise not to go back on your word", she said. "I promise now put me out of my misery", I replied, wishing immediately that I hadn't said that last bit. "Well first I want you undressed", she said. "Where?", I asked. "Here", she said, "in the living room, by the fire". Well that sounded fair enough so I stripped off. "What now?", I enquired. "Now", she said wickedly, "I want to tie your hands behind your back and your feet. The place seemed so empty, now that he was alone. His dad's calming presence was gone. It had disappeared along with his body.For the first time in his nineteen years of life, Ralph was truly alone.That damned bunch of rocks hitting the earth had changed things so much. He looked out over the farmhouse. He was at his favorite vantage point, a few hundred feet up the side of a hill, behind the farmhouse.He was in a little grove his grandparents had planted, when they had first bought this place.