Next they check her listing and go check them out till they find one that is not lived in. Now they are giving each other the high fives! Jerome calls...Jackie and tells her he is interested in this very large ranch house and makes an appointment to see it. On the appoint day and time Leroy, Jerome and two more guys show up before Jackie. As she drives up, three of them duck down. Leroy says “Give me about twenty minutes inside cause I wants to get her in the basement. When you come in be quiet. ‘Sally!’ I called into the house. ‘John’s here. Carol’s husband.’ I wasn’t sure where she was inside, but she came out as he came up the steps. ‘John, meet Sally.’ ‘Hello John.’ ‘Hello Sally,’ them both speaking at the same time as they shook hands. ‘No Carol?’ she asked. ‘Still at work,’ he grinned. ‘Earning the food for the table.’ Sally noticed his limp as she followed us into the house and into the dining area where I made him sit down as I got out some beers. He gave her a potted. Ididn't want to have to walk among other people too far.I got there about a half hour before the doors to the theater opened tothe audience, to make sure I got there on time...but as I sat there inmy car waiting for the theater doors to open, the same old anxiety andfear that I'm sure that anyone reading my story knows all too well cameout. I was dressed like a woman! I am about to go out in public, Imean REAL public, not after-hours city parks or supermarkets at night. There was a moment. I notice how damp my skin feels and instead of feeling relieved that the acid rain was just a dream, that realization suddenly plunges me back into another kind of terror. There is something on my skin – some sort of thick, sticky liquid. I try to reach for the night lamp in vain as the shivers running through my veins render me frozen on my bed. Somehow, finally breaking my ice shell, I manage to flick on the faint light on my bedside table, my eyes adjusting to its feeble glow. My flowery.