" Who could have arranged all this so suddenly?"I sat on the bed thinking. "You don't suppose... ? Do you?" Who?" Merlin?" Oh, my God. It must be. But...how did he do it? And why?" I don't have the foggiest, but, there are some questions best left unasked."As Grace was thumbing through the cards she came across one that shocked her even more. It was from the governor of the state saying that he would be attending. In his words: "Wouldn't miss it for the world."That night we went to bed and went. "His eyes swept over her long body, taking in the diaphanous negligee and the way it clung to the modeling of her breasts, how it snuggled to her hips and dipped in beguilingly at her crotch."Yeah," he said. You look different, somehow."She led him to the bar and brushed her hip against his thigh when she went around to pour him a drink. "Do I look sexy?"He nodded, the n frowned. "But you always did. It was like icing on a cake, but empty inside; no goodies beyond the froth."Lauralee leaned. " Kelsey nodded vigorously. "I asked a guy friend about you and he said you are a good guy." Who?" Thor asked."Billy Wilson," said Anna Marie. "I think you're in a class together."Billy Wilson? He must be older. Thor didn't know many of the upper classmen yet."Can you come?" asked Kelsey. Thor wondered why she giggled after she said that."So there are going to be other freshmen guys and girls?" he asked. He wanted to make sure it wasn't an elaborate trap."Oh, yeah," said Kelsey."Lots of. .."That made Tabitha and Janice cry even harder, and caused Carlisle to grab the phone and call Doctor Eschelman and insist he do a consult, or find the "best damned brain injury specialist in the world, and get him here to examine me, right now!"They were all so wrapped in their sorrow that they couldn't see that I was fine with the news, until Tabitha grabbed me and said, through her tears, "How can you be so calm?"I thought before I answered..."When I got shot, I died. I knew I was dead..