“That’s bright as heck!”“Hush,” she batted his hand to the side. “You have a concussion. I need to make sure I didn’t kill you.”A conc...ssion accounted for the headache, but why? They’d made tea. He’d teased her about his other relationships. Then they kissed and, whoa, everything came back. He couldn’t suppress the surprise in his voice--or the betrayal. “You kicked me.”“Yeah, sorry, but you and Alfred triggered me.”“Your mom said something about a loyalty gene.”With the words “Loyalty Gene,”. Lauren thought it was about time they had tea at her place, even if she had to take some food round there herself. Nikki’s mother was an incurably hopeless cook, and Lauren often joked that she should be presented with a certificate titled `Master Tin-Opener’. She wondered what she should do the next day, Thursday. Mike had again gone to stay with Patrik, she didn’t want to start her summer project as that would have spoiled her holiday.When the phone rang, Lauren hardly heard it above the. .. Kenshin's much sharper today.Kaoru: No! That's not Kenshin! That's Hitokiri Battousai! It's Battousai! Stop them! Somebody stop them--Sanosuke (walking in, leaning on Megumi): It's no good, girl. They're not in Meiji Tokyo any more. They're fighting in Kyoto of the Bakumatsu. No matter how much you call, your voice can't reach them. Only someone who survived the violence of the Bakumatsu and tasted the shaking of Kyoto could stop this fight--(A carriage races through the streets, knocking. I'm sorry mam I said. She said with all those cars and trucks going in and out of that house all day I figured it to be a couple of single folks that's all.On my way home I was thinking about what that lady had said. Sure enough when I got home there was one of my buddy's four wheel drive parked in the side yard. I pulled into the garage and went in threw the kitchen door. Just to the right of the garage door in the kitchen there is a eight foot glass sliding door that looks out on to the deck.