. he says he wants to be with me when I'm out at these functions. I don't know why, exactly. He says he wants to be treated like an equal. He used to ...ate my parties. I don't know what to think. I'll do it, of course. I just don't know what he expects." And?" I'm happy to have him be more ... forceful. I want him to be my partner in everything. I'll tell him I welcome his becoming more ... assertive with me." Anything else?" I don't know what to tell him about his comment about my honesty.. “Papa, I mean brother what’s wrong? Do you not like that woman over there?” “No that’s not it you see that girl over there is my friend.”“If she is your friend why don’t you go say hi to her?”“Because you’re with, I mean because she might be with her boyfriend.”Jessica saw right through me, “Papa its fine. I understand you’re still embarrassed of me because of my childlike state and you don’t want your friends to see me like this.” “I didn’t mean it like that!”“It’s fine papa.” Jessica. She's going to be my housekeeper. Know what you're going to be?"I shuddered. "That's right Melissa," she smiled. "My new maid. Won't that be fun! You're going to get all of Maria's pretty clothes and uniforms - and I'm going to give you some more pairs of shoes. Maria's room will be your room from now on." Please ma'am..," I started."But you'll have to learn to sew real quick - to help Maria make scads of new clothes - and of course, pretty new uniforms for yourself as time goes by. But just. I felt safe in his arms.“They hadn’t finished the search, and it took a while before I calmed down. Then when he wasn’t busy helping the other survivors they found, we talked.“After we got back here to the SCC, they in-processed me and then I couldn’t find him. That was when we met and became friends.”Maddie said, “Yeah, I remember seeing you at dinner that night after you in-processed. You were looking so lost and forlorn. I just had to come over and introduce myself. I was in as bad a.