I walked around and got into the passenger seat. We small-talked as we drove through the downtown area and headed west out toward the suburbs. She wor... large sunglasses, but I could see her looking at me peripherally as we drove. Soon, we were heading out into semi-rural contry, so I asked where we were going to eat. She took her sunglasses off, and said, "I didn't mention eating." We turned off onto a narrow tree lined road which had once served as an access to an old fire tower. A small lake. I thought I might be wrong about it, but that time, I saw something sinister. Eyes that told me that she had something prepared to teach my sister a lesson. It startled me and I forced myself up into my room, maybe to cry or to hide from my aunt, I wasn't sure.Here's where it got all funny. There was a lightnin strike so loud, I woke up from my sleep. I looked at the time and it was way past midnight. If I'm an early riser, I might even call it morning. My sister wasn't in her bed. I remembered. Lying on his sofa, wearing only some ratty Bermuda shorts and sipping on his favorite cold brew, he was trying to do some serious catnapping while still watching the ball game on television. His cell phone had other ideas, however."Aha! He is alive," was all that he heard as he answered it."Hi, this is Mark. I'm trying to watch the ball game. Please leave your name and..." he responded, mimicking his answering machine message."All right. All right! Mark, it's Debbie Janicke." Hi, Debbie. What's. ‘I live in a three bedroom place and we’re losing one of our roommates at the end of the month. If you’d like, you can share my room until then and take the extra room at the start of next month.’ ‘That would be great, but I wouldn’t want to impose.’ ‘You’d be doing us a favor. I was really sweating how I was going to make the extra rent. I’ve got a king-sized bed and an extra drawer in my dresser.’ ‘Don’t forget, I’d find it hard to keep my hands off of you.’ ‘I wouldn’t want you to,’ Jenifer.