. Mmmppphh... MMMPPHHH"His voice was cracking all over the place, and he began sounding like apre-pubescent boy. A stifling, strangling feeling came u...on his neck, ashe felt something there was diminishing, being swallowed, even. Thehigher his screams sounded, the more convinced he was that it's hisAdam's apple. And it only took a couple of minutes until his screamswere the sound of a wailing woman in pain.He wailed louder, as the machine worked harder, and the pain increased.His entire body. . Damn it, this isn't Laura, and this is not an R & R."What's wrong?" Lacy was looking at me strangely."I was just thinking, this was a mistake, you really aren't dressed for walking around like this," I answered, rubbing her arms to get the blood circulating.Lacy laughed, probably relieved that I had returned from my reverie. "I was thinking too, I'm not old enough to go to a bar but do you still have some of that Chianti?" Did you like that stuff? It's kind of strong for me. But I'll tell you. We didn’t get to Kai’s apartment much before midnight but we were still amongst the first to arrive. This time we navigated the subway rather better than the night before, but it was remarkable how soon we got lost in Manhattan. We’d thought the city was all Avenues and Streets at right angles to one another like in all those movies with yellow taxis cruising down 5th Avenue. It was nowhere near as simple as that in the district around SoHo and Greenwich Village where we hung out for most of. If nothing else, Kevin would beat him up if there was any sign to it. And he'd beat himself up, too. After all, it was Vicky.Bobby had no experience with love. Looking back on his life, he realized it was something he hadn't even seen much at home. His parents had ... well, he now knew why things had been how they'd been. At the time it was just how parents behaved. And he couldn't blame his Mom. It may have been silly, or naive, to have gone into marriage thinking Dad had been "cured", but he.