"Yes, ma'am." What did you have?" Cheeseburgers." Did you have a vegetable?" Um, no." Then you make sure to eat two tomorrow." Yes, ma'am." And you're...warm enough?" Grandma, it's Arizona!" Yes, well, you can never be too sure. I packed some extra sweaters with your things. I'll be sending them tomorrow."I sighed. "Thank you, ma'am. Grandma, I called because I need to ask you something." Well of course you do. How's Eddie treating you?" Uh... okay. Look, Grandma, he seems to know a lot about me.. He and Kirsten had already shot one extra cup of coffee, sitting around the kitchen table and putting off the reality, and Mike was giving some thought to making another cup of instant; it wasn't worth making a whole pot of coffee for himself if Kirsten could only drink decaf out of packages."I can't believe how well the kids are taking it," Kirsten said."Well, I don't think it means a lot to Henry, one way or the other," Mike said. "Not having to share his room with his sister was the big news. "Don't be, it's okay." I felt a bit guilty, straight guys don't kissother men like that; I resolved not to let it happen again. We bothfell asleep.The next morning, the looks on the girl's faces told me exactly whatthey had assumed happened last night. Mark and I both denied thatanything happened, although one by one as they left, I could tell theydidn't believe us.Soon only Mark and Danielle remained. Danielle was with Jen cleaningup, when Mark came into my room."Hey," he said and smiled. I. Were they flower buds starting to appear?I rang Mum from my phone."Hello dear." Mum, you have to come home. Something's wrong and the ambulance didn'tbelieve me," I wailed. It was then I saw my fingernails on my changedhand fall off and I dropped the phone.My hair (if you could still call it that) was definitely flowering. Redpetals were slowly opening up all along the green vines that seemed tohave replaced any hair that I had on my head. My face had turned green,my lips a slightly darker.