”“That’s fine, I’m not expecting much, but I’m eager to hear your ideas—founded or—.”“Come on, I think the Link is near,” he inter...upted, rushing her forward. “If we don’t catch it now, we’ll have to wait.”“I don’t mind,” she protested. “It’ll give us more time to talk.”“Nonsense, the ride is long enough as it is. We’ll have plenty of time to catch up on the train.”He was right, the Link pulled up as he entered his prepaid fare for them both. They joined the waiting crowd, then once onboard, he. We head into the mobile home they have for an office and caretaker’s living quarters. Behind the counter is an 18-year-old who doesn’t stop flirting with Kim, even though I possessively keep her under my arm. Lusting after a 15-year-old, you know he is a creep.Kim doesn’t see it that way and is enjoying herself. At least she doesn’t flirt back too much.Once we are on the handgun range, we have quite a bit of fun. We play games like tic tac toe and battleship. Whenever I compete against somebody. I was not certain why they declined, but it didn’t matter because within the year I was offered another position in the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana to teach music in a new school and work with a college that was to be started the next year. While I was in this new position, they came to visit us. That’s when my feelings began to grow for my friend … feelings that I could no longer deny. I put them in small box in the back of my mind, in an area where only God and I knew about them, and. In fact there was a pretty good chance I had become pregnant in those final days of womanhood nearly a decade ago. Had it somehow transferred over to the present, laden quiet in my male body all those years? Stranger things I have experienced, but if this was the truth, I might be in for the world's longest overdue child in the history of reproduction. I rubbed my belly again and wondered if that was what had caused those strange abdominal sensations. I was approaching my home and I parked.