He shrugged off his jacket and handed it to me, specifically not looking at me as he did."Thanks." I turned my back and shucked off the remains of my ...hirt. Damn, it was a nice tee shirt too. I zipped his jacket up between my breasts and turned back to him. "Howard, you said? Anyone ever call you Howie?" As conversation starters go, it was pretty lame, but I was trying to regain my bearings, and I wasn't sure where this was going. I figured I was going to owe him some pretty big pay back, but I. As she walked into the room she looked me in the eye smiling and sat near me on the couch."Are you ok aunt Jennifer?" I asked with concern in my voice."Oh I am fine, I am fine. Maybe a little buzzed, but I am perfectly fine. How about you? You dont seem very cheerful, are you enjoying the evening? Watch anything fun on tv while your mom and I were in the kitchen?" I am okay", I replied "Just sort of bored. I was thinking about watching some movie." That sounds like a good idea Kevin. Lets watch. " The one with the gun says."I doubt it." I sigh.The one with the gun approaches me, pointing the gun at my face."You got a pair on you man" He says aiming the gun at my forehead.Always some quixotic misadventure that always ends in the reminder of how unlike them I am, how alien I am to them, they are always so violent, always.The gun goes off aimed at my forehead, and in that brief flash I go back to the first time, the very first time, my first memories.Then...Naked and alone, I lay in the. Her uncle had come to the drive-in and told them about the wreck and that her mother was in the hospital and wasn't expected to live. Dad had sat with Mom at the hospital all night.My grandmother had been determined that she would live to see her great grandchildren. At the age of eighty-four, she currently had four to brag about. Two of my cousins were married. Clara and her husband Tom had three boys. Billy and his wife Leesha had a girl.Brad's brother and sister, Alex and Anna, were five.