She was still whimpering from the pain in her eye, which was terribly bloodshot. I sat down on the floor, and pulled her into my lap, to hold the cold...compress against her face.Terri kept trying to get back into supplicant position, and I kept pulling her back onto my lap. "Shh, quiet. You can speak later. Hug me, now." Terri put her arms around my neck, and her head on my chest, and cried. Her hard wracking sobs tore at my heart. All I could do was to hold the ice pack against her face and. ”I nodded and finished my tea, setting the empty glass in the sink. I walked out through the living room and down past the guest bedroom to my room. I looked inside and sighed. All my bags were still unpacked and tossed on my bed. All of my old posters still hung on the walls, and I finally felt like I was home again. I searched and found my blue swimming trunks and tugged off my clothes. I stopped for a moment to look in my full-length mirror. I stood 6’2″, had light brown hair and blue eyes.. "No, I don't think that will be necessary," Robert answered quickly,adding a fervent shake of his head. "It was just a routineinvestigation of an anomaly. These things happen sometimes, though. Idon't see any reason to go any further into it than this." Oh ... alright," I replied, bringing my smile back to lips. "Then isit alright if I get back to work, sir? I've got a truck full ofdeliveries waiting for me out there, and there's only so many hours inthe day to get them where they need to. Mom and I had just taken a big step into something that we both knew was wrong. But it didn't feel wrong. It felt right. It seemed as if we knew exactly what each other needed. We hadn't spoken hardly a word. It was just us with our bodies touching and we went with the flow toward being closer than we had ever been. I closed my eyes and tried to reason with myself wondering if this was just a dream or if what just happened was real. A few minutes later Mom came out of the house with a new.