”“This was my little ploy. I actually hate milk but got Charlie to send you up here. I hope you don’t mind.”“I don’t mind. I was going to ...ntroduce myself in the lounge but you left.”“I could tell you’re on the shy side so I got this idea. I got tired of waiting for you to make a move so I made it happen. We don’t have much time and I wanted to hang out with you and thought, what better place than my room?”“Very daring, aren’t you?”“Yes, I didn’t want my parents to see us together. My dad’s a. "Woah. Rob. Don't... you know... l-let's think aboutthis."Robert shook his head. "I've spent far too much time thinking. It's timeto act."Eli wiped his tears away. "Rob. I'm not asking you to do this. I just..."Robert nodded his head. "I know you aren't, Eli." Robert could feel tearswelling up in his eyse now. He turned away. "But your sister is gonnadie. None of us can do anything to stop it... except me. I'm the only onewho can do anything." My uncle always told me that a man's gotta make the. Yesterday had been a chaotic day, hell the last two days had both held more than their share of strange bits. But now, in this instant he felt…good, better than he perhaps ever had. Just another strange part of a trip filled with odd feelings. Tera stood before him, stretching out her own muscles, reveling in the simple act of feeling her body move. She watched as Michael’s dark silhouette moved before her. The faint light obscured the details, but she watched with rapt attention as he moved. We're going to talk about it tomorrow instead, and then when I get backfrom my mother's, we'll continue to work on fixing it, and then, look intowhat we can do."I can see she's rather deeply disappointed, as she gives me a hug, inwhich I can feel her concern and makes me feel a little better."But there is news, maybe not so bad," I say as we break apart."Oh? What's that?" We're going to talk about switching the operations back to the waybefore, so I may be having the breast augmentation.