I just want to go to sleep.”My headache didn’t seem quite so bad, but I knew the symptoms, and I knew I dare not take anything until I was more ce...tain. I told her, “I’m staying here till a few days after the funeral. I’ll sleep down here, but after that I’m moving to mom and dads. I’ll come back in the evenings to be with my girls, but I want you to know it’s for them, not you. You know I’m the executor mom and dad’s estate. Rath won’t like it, but I intend to take my time. I have the comp. Mein jhat se utha aur bola “ tum soyi nahi ab tak?”Swati “ sona hai abhi chutti chal rahi haina to thoda late soti hoon aur tum? Tum nahi soye ab tak?”Mein “ haan soya par pyas lagi to pani lene aaya.”Swati “ par tumhari aankho ko dekh to aysa lag nahi raha kit um sokar uthe ho?”Mein “ nahi soya matlab leta tha par neend nahi aa rahi thi”Swati “ agar aysa tha to mere room aa jate na mujhe itni jaldi neend nahi aati late soti hoon. Ham baate karte.”Mein “ nahi nahi aunty unkle kya sochenge na. ?Do your hair and makeup. Then grab a clean bra,some clean sissy socks, and carry them over here! You can go back forwhatever laundry you need to clean later. And hurry up! We?re alreadylater than I wanted it to be!?Chad was only surprised that she didn?t tell him to drink his usual threebaby bottles. In fact, Sandy had only made him drink one when he went tobed last night. But judging by how wet everything was this morning, thathad still been one bottle too many. Of course, Sandy had. No, she looked like she had wanted to look like when she wastwenty."He'll appreciate me, now," she thought. But would he? Her new confidence melted away in a rush of self-doubt. Steve had alwaysthought of himself as the ultimate, rational man. What had happened toher wasn't rational. It was magic. "What if he rejects me? What if hethrows me out?"There was only one solution for her. If one pill made him appreciate her, two or three would make him worship her. He would never throw herout..