It was still not quite sunup outside, so I fought the urge to run. I hated to run so it didn't take much fighting. I had the bike under the shelter of...the balcony, but with my wing broken, there wasn't much I could do with it. When I got the tricycle today, there would be more I could do tomorrow, I though.The stale coffee and the reheated donut were gone before I tried the bathroom again. I found it warm, but in a different way than the rest of the apartment. The heat just seemed kind of. There had been the homeward ambulance trip, that trip wherein she was sure the doctors and nurses believed they were sending her child, her baby, home to die. For days after their return Andrea had been afraid to go to sleep, even to close her eyes. What if she dozed off and her baby left her in those fleeting moments? Even after twenty years she still habitually awakened just to check, just to see. During the first year of Maureen’s great adventure away at college she called day and night, to. "I looked down at her hand and didn't see a ring. "Since you're here with friends is it alright if I join you? Eli's friends are a bit young for me." Are you saying I'm old?" she laughed."God NO! I'm sorry if I said that wrong. It's just that I'm twenty-four and Eli and his friends are all around nineteen." I'm twenty-five," replied Mary. "My friends are all in their early twenties. You're welcome to join us if you like." I smiled at her and picked up the drinks she had ordered and walked to. After that, it was wonderful improvisation. I saw Rachel’s pass to Beth and wondered about that. After the fact, I think I figured it out, but I’d like to know for sure.“Rachel, Beth is our O quarterback, so a pass to her in that situation was eminently reasonable. However, with most personnel of both teams on our left side of the field, you might have been able to carry the ball well into their half. Why didn’t you?”“I was going to, but then I saw Meka start hauling ass upfield. I glanced.