She was getting paranoid after what had happened with Bradford.The blonde girl stripped off the tiny costume and hung it up in her locker, then took a...towel and went into the showers. She turned on the water as hot and hard as she could stand. The soothing blast took the strain from her muscles and rinsed the come and dirt from her hair. In a few minutes, she felt almost human again.She ran the towel over her body and luxuriated in the softness of the towel against her skin. She sighed in. Peter never hit the kids, I did. I hit him too. My temper gets to me and I go off. When Penny dropped the bowl this morning, I almost hit her. I didn’t, but she was scared to death that I would.”“I really do love them and I don’t want to lose them. If I stayed they would eventually tell you about me and you would find a way to take them from me to protect them. I love them too much for that to happen. In a matter of a day and a night, you managed to make them care for you more than they ever. I spent two hours in the three nights before comps studying, and the rest alternately reading paperbacks and freaking out. My lab was kind enough to throw me a bash after my two-hour ordeal, which I deeply appreciated. Later that afternoon, Liz and I were walking back to her place (while she was teasing me about sleepwalking through class), chatting about the upcoming weekend, when I asked her to have dinner with me next Friday.An unreadable expression flickered in her eyes before she said that. I turned the sound up a bit to see how it worked, and it was perfect, beautifully clear. The $20 I'd spent on the 5 speakers had been a real bargain."Ralph, its May, if you can be here by 7:00 it's on, lover," came my wife's voice over the speaker. "OK, love, I'll see you then. Don't you dare be late, we won't have near enough time as it is. And no! Don't figure on getting a repeat."There was a little pause, then May giggled and hung up the phone.What the hell was that about? What is on, and.