" How do you mean?" I asked.Marion thought a bit before she answered. "Dionne told me that things were a bit tense in your home over the past year or ...o. She thought it was how you were upset about your boss. That sort of transferred to the rest of the family when you got home. Rick took some of that pressure off her. He's someone of her age she can talk to. She also said that when her mother was killed, she saw you change ... right away. You became more ... caring and thoughtful. She thinks. Midge and I have been going at it for years. I mean really, do you think an idiot like Moose would be able to satisfy a slut like Midge? That boy couldn't please Midge to save his life! Dumb as a post!” “Heeh heh. True Reggie. He sure is a few bricks short of a load! But I still don't get it! How'd you get Midge to go all the way with you? Why, I'd give anything to get Veronica to round even second with me! You don't suppose you could… could show me how to get a girl. ”“Are you saying you can or can’t do those things?”“I’m saying that nobody other than Merlin the First had any real concept of my nature. I’m not the genie from Aladdin’s lamp or any other such fairytale fantasy. Look, pay close attention to what I’m saying! You live in the here and now. Today came after yesterday, tomorrow comes after today, right?”“Um, yeah, that’s generally the way it works.”“Well, it doesn’t work that way in MY dimension. In your limited perception of the universe, you’re. Maybe, he thought, maybe she's even been with someone else earlier today, or this evening. The thought of Judy lying naked in bed with some anonymous john made Tim burn with anger and jealousy. He wanted to ask her about it, wanted to know exactly how many men she'd had, what their names were, their occupations, what they'd said to her. He especially wanted to know if she'd ever enjoyed fucking any of them, and if she'd ever brought anyone else up to this place, her own apartment. He wanted to.