”“I’m not reading your mind. But I can feel you holding something back. Something you’re afraid of. Something ... about me?”James stared at ...is shoes with a frown on his face, breathing through his mouth instead of his nose for some reason.After seven or eight evenly spaced breaths, he took a deep one and said, “Eric’s mine. You can’t have him.”“Huh?”He looked up at my surprised face and boldly said, “He’s all I got, and I’m not letting him go, got it? I won’t let you take him from me.”He was. Shiggie had just joined the club recently, and it looked like he would really improve our pitching staff. Shiggie's translator, Amy, was a fine-looking young woman. Now, it looked like she and Sandy were hitting it off pretty well.I wondered how Sandy had explained her presence there. She'd probably just said she was a "friend" of mine. Or maybe she'd told Amy I was a neurotic personality and she was my keeper.I got no attention from Sandy, but I did get two more hits -- a single and a double. I had no idea what "This Corrosion" was about. For me it was about thefact that the more I saw this goddess, the more I wanted to be her.Patricia was sometimes known as the "gothmother" and she was the reasonwhy I became a goth. She was also the reason I took up guitar lessons.I lacked, however, the courage to dress like Patricia in my parent'shome. I was able to wear black and eventually even to wear a crimsonlipstick when my parents were away, but I was very nervous buying it. Ihad this. Milo is asleep at the girls’ feet. The dog has been in our house for less than twenty-four hours, and he’s already been in every bed. A list that includes the master, and it appears that I have competition. Milo lifts his head, and he sees Payton and I standing in the hall. I wonder what goes through his doggy brain, and if he knows who is the alpha male. Payton calls to her dog, and he immediately moves to her side. I’m not sure if he would listen to me.“The good boy probably needs to go.