He'd done enough of that lately.Jessica looped her arm through James' playfully, pulling him down a bit as she did. "Goddamn, I forget how tall you ar.... I have gotta get myself some inserts or something." She marched on, dragging James along with her. Jessica was a year younger than James. The two had met over a decade earlier when Jessica moved into James' neighborhood and began attending the same school as him. He had been her first friend at school, sitting with her at lunch when she was the. But whatever he was, I felt sort of a responsibility for him right now. It had been I who'd performed the operation to fix his broken rib or whatever and the internal damage it had done while untreated, and I couldn't just let him die now for want of a little attention.Besides, I still felt a lot of the same affection I'd given him back when I thought he really was a cat. For a while I wondered whether it was genuine or just something he'd instilled in me with his evident mind-bending. "Fuck him; Mike Harris is going, but Michele Nylons is staying at home!"he spat and a smile crossed his face.The next day at the airport Mike met Brian near the check in counter.Brian threw a ticket at him."You're in coach!" Brian snarled and walked off to the first-classlounge.Mike didn't see Brian again until he arrived at the Radisson hotel.Inside the ticket folder Brian had given him at the airport was an agendafor their business meeting at Houghton Mifflin, and a reservation slipfor the. I..I…I think there might be something wrong with me Rick….I..I..she….its so wrong…..I can’t help it I want to…..do you love mom Rick…I don’t mean as mom, but do you love her as a woman, you know as a person not just as mom. H..Have y..y..you ever thought of…..you know….I mean you’re a guy and she is a beautiful sexy woman…that would be so easy to understand ..d..do you…have you ever wanted……oh fuck this is so sick of me.”“Are you trying to ask me if I’ve ever thought of having sex with mom.