The moment had arrived. She couldn’t bear it any more. “Are you satisfied?” she asked hoping that the one simple question would be enough to all...viate her insecurities. “Of course I am darling!” She sensed a ‘but’ was imminent. “Wait wait wait," she heard the word before he spoke it, “BUT” big friggin bold cartoon letters, hanging in her mind's eye, from a billboard, taunting her. She wanted to smile at the image she’d conjured up but the timing was off, this was serious! “I just think we. “That was all that happened, because I had to catch the bus. I didn’t see him over the summer, but when school started again, he asked me to come see him. I didn’t have him for class, so it was kind of difficult to arrange. I had my friend Ted and used him as cover. Ted never knew what was going on, but he liked to hang out with me and I would tell my mom I was with him when I was with Mr. Dixon. Nobody ever suspected a thing.”“I certainly didn’t,” I said. “You kept things very quiet, and. Beep!The phone!I jumped up, got my feet tangled in the sheets, and I fell on my face.Wotta klutz.Beep!Okay, okay.I stumbled into the kitchen, rubbing my nose."Hiya honey, how's my boy?" Oh, ok, I guess." You guess? You don't sound too great, have you got a cold?" I don't think so, although I was out in a hailstorm. No, I sound funnybecause I just fell on my nose trying to run and get the phone."Mom laughed. Thanks for the maternal sympathy. But I chuckled too, itwas hard not to."So how did you. "They thought you were someone else, who had wronged them, but the image in their mind even as they were looking at you didn't match our actual appearance. It was like they were having a very specific hallucination, or vision." I thought that perhaps we should hole up and wait until evening to travel, to give people less of a look at us, and Eliza's enthusiastic response had me grinning also. I decided on a hotel, to get the highly noticible bike off the street. Parking in the underground lot,.