You could jump Jim," Bev said, referring to her boyfriend, who wasn't in sight at the moment. "He said he thinks you're hot."Deena flushed at the comp...iment. Jim was a tall, sexy guy, who took care of his body and was in his forties, about 10 years older than her, with salt and pepper hair. "Naw..." she replied, "I don't want to mess up your relationship."Bev snorted, "We're not exclusive. Go for it."Deena considered for a moment. "Do you have any rubbers?" she asked, "I didn't even think to. .. you belong together.”Watching as Scorpius digested her words, Delphi smiled triumphantly as he nodded then turned to run off. It looked like the two boys’ friendship would be mended. Now... she’d just have to wait before she could initiate the next stage of her plan.•••••••Watching silently, Delphi carefully plotted her next moves in her head as she watched the brown haired boy wandering the woods all alone.“There you are,” she said, revealing herself. “You got my owl.”Spinning around, Albus. “I do realize, Josh,” she said weighing her words carefully, “that I understand nothing. Do you get that?”“What?”“Do you realize I understand nothing about what I saw?”“Oh,” I said, feeling the blood rush to my cheeks. I had hoped to avoid this conversation entirely. Forever. Yet here we were.“Yes, I do,” I replied quietly.“Then, will you fault me for trying to understand a little bit?” she said.“I’d really rather not talk about it, Ellen.”“I see,” she said, with a tinge of sadness, “I. Thepay wasn't great, but the people who owned it made up for it by making mefeel like part of their family. In the few short months I had worked forJim and Lori, I had learned as much as I could from them about working ina restaurant. They in turn, instilled in me a passion for the industry,and an eagerness to learn more. Which also inspired me to learn more aboutmyself, and in so doing, I realized why I had always felt so "different".It was this epiphany that led to an unanticipated impromptu.