My brother’s having it’s first son baptised so I thought I’d drop in.”After high school, Hildi went to a college in a different part of the co...ntry so we kinda lost touch. After she finished she went to Spain for work. I was thinking about this at times and how well she would fit in Spain. She was always this exotic girl and I always thought she was from Puerto Rico because of the darker tones of her skin. She was local tho, just like me. But her mother had an exotic origin, altho I don’t know. She began telling her mother about fantasies about Willy. Her kisses soon moved to her mother’s ears and then to her mother’s mouth. Between kisses, she would tell her mother about her latest dreams: Willy being her daddy, mommy and daddy holding her, the three of them snuggling in bed, kissing each other, and being naked together. Each time was a different dream, each dream a little naughtier than the last. One night, Dee was in her mother’s lap while she ate a lolly. She would take it. But I knew it was all useless attempts. She'd been dead when she hit the floor, probably even before that.I knew she was dead, but it still bothered me when the paramedic pulled out his walkie-talkie and announced into it very matter-of-factly that the patient was dead. He said "code" something-or- other, not the actual word "dead," but I was just too far out in my blurry space place to remember his exact words.But it bothered me when he said it. Actually it was the way he said it. Like it was. A shudder ran through Jessie just thinking about it.Still, what was there to do? Go back to the dorm room and go through the motions all over again? Or would Leah apologize. Maybe cry a lot and beg for forgiveness. Explain it all away.No matter how hard Jessie tried, she could not make herself believe that fantasy. The way Leah gazed at her the night before, it was not human.Then there was another thought. A whisper in Jessie’s mind.Public safety isn’t going to help you. No one is.Over the last.