. there would be pamphlets at the Center ... sure the tour guide would know what was what and where was where ... but Abby was excited. Dad, for the f...rst time, was taking her where she wanted to go ... and it wasn’t to the Burger or the Pizza ... it was Someplace. Someplace out of town. Whee!She sat in the passengers seat ... that in itself was a first ... Myndee was still in New Zealand. So, Abby was belted in and handed the AAA stuff Dad had picked up before the trip. She read the map and. "I love you, Allie. You have to trust me."Abigail could hear her sister sigh. "I need to go. I love you, Jack. I love you, Abigail." I love you, too, Allie," Abigail said, then heard the phone click.Allison stood in the solitude of the restroom. She splashed water on her face, dried off and then touched up her makeup, trying to make herself presentable. She was already five minutes late for her last class, but she didn't care. The phone call to her sister and brother-in-law confirmed her worst. They became colorless, odorless objects that didn’t mean anything to him anymore. They lost their shape and detail, as the once- exciting room fell within a wash of blandness, the pile of clothes at the foot of his bed like a modernist sculpture that refused to be moved. His room turned into a museum of vague and barely-identifiable objects that he had to maneuver around in order to get to the shower, and once under the spray, he struggled to cleanse and ready himself for the hike into. She had awakened from the noise of him coming home but hadn’t revealed this to her husband. He lay on his side next to her and began to nuzzle her neck while his fat fingers worked between her legs and rubbed her neglected garden.“Alice honey wake up. Your lover boy is home” he whispered in her ear.“What do you want Ralph?” Alice said sounding half asleep.Ralph maneuvered his girth so that his erection pressed against the leg of Alice. Meanwhile he had raised her nightgown enough so that his.