Just before school started her father built a tree house in the big tree in their back yard big enough for three adults to sit in complete with a prop...r roof to keep out rain and two basic collapsible aluminium chairs with a camping lantern for light if we used it after dark. On the hot August afternoons and evenings it was a real re.ief to sit in that tree house, pull up the ladder the only way to access it and let the breeze cool us off. As the temperatures touched the 90-100 degree mark we. "Nice of you to join us in the real world again" Dan says with loathing."Or is it the real world" Ray adds, "You are now looking at not one but two ghosts, so you thought" I hope our friends didn't disturb you too much. I didn't want you to wake up alone," Dan cruelly states gesturing towards the swine."Please get me out of here. Show some mercy I beseech you" Saim pleads"Oh we are just about to do that" Ray answers abruptly."You will be shown the same amount of mercy you were about to give the. I was wrong. Maybe she thought I was crazy. Maybe she will send her boyfriend to beat me up. I got crazy thoughts in my head about hr firing me for molestation that night. I went to office scared. I should not have confessed to her. I went our cubicle she was not there. I expected the worse to happen. And then she came. She wore a jeans and a thick pullover. She had covered herself from head to toe. I expected it. She sat on her seat. I thought of apologizing again. She kept her items on the. ” Cathy raised her instrument filled arms to show Jason he was currently out of luck for a hug and kiss.“Slip them under my arm, Jason,” I said as I created a carrying space between my right arm and torso, as I held the smaller soprano case in that hand.After I had Cathy’s new set of bongos safely secured under my arm, Jason asked, “Are you still thinking a four to four-thirty departure time will work, Boss-man?”“I think so, Jason ... and please, just Mike, okay?” I added with a slight negative.