Scared the bejeezus out of me, I have to tell you. Those little machines they had me hooked to were beeping and squealing enough to wake the dead. I w...s hollerin' for help and trying to push myself back through the wall when she told me, 'I'm not here to hurt you. I just wanted to make amends.'"Mark had moved to Mia's side of the bed and was checking her pulse, eyes, and limb rigidity much as Tom had a few hours before. "Huh. Certainly seems dead enough. Anyway, I quieted down and she walked up. That evening I asked Ayesha, “honey, could you sleep properly last night?”“Actually mamma, I don’t know but I kept on thinking about the videos for long”“What did you think about?”“Nothing much but it just came to my mind again and again”“Tell me honestly, what did you think?”“Well… actually mamma… you know….”“Ya go on”“Mamma I thought of having sex with somebody”“Hmmm … that’s like an honest answer. Whom did you think to have sex with?”“No one specifically but I thought to have it with. ”Mike started to thank her when he her the click of her phone as she hung up. Fighting panic, Mike went up the stairs to the offices and told Donna he had to leave, asking her to let Donnie know there was an emergency.“What’s happened, Daddy?”“I don’t know, Kid, Connie’s been rushed to the hospital.”“OK,” she gestured with her hand for him to leave, “go, go, I’ll let them know.”He mumbled a quick thank you, and hurried downstairs and out to his car. A funny thing happened on the way to the. It also wouldn’t have hurt if the people warmed up a little too. When they’d moved Katie had been a bubbly, friendly fourteen year old, but that wasn’t the way big cities worked. No one looked at you, no one talked. She found it debilitating.As a case in point, she sat on the cross town bus, on her way home from the private high school her dad’s new job was paying for. School was great, the forty five minute bus ride every day was less so, especially when it was usually a completely silent and.