"I tried to soothe her as Steven said, "Yeah, if she had called me, I'd have gone too. She was a real knock-out, Mom."I stroked Jenny's head and said,..."Kids, these people are very sick. We are in a very dangerous position with no way out. I have just received the beating of my life with a thin cane."Steven looked up and said, "Really! Were you naked?" Yes, and it wasn't amusing, Steven. These people are serious. You may be next, young man, so get that smirk off your face." I took Jenny by the. “Oh, that’s what it’s under eh.”I wrinkled my brow and pretended to give the matter some thought. “Let’s see now. If I remember correctly, prosthetics are derived from the Greek prosthesis. An artificial device that replaces a missing body part.”I gave my dad my best clinical evaluation look.“What body part are you missing, Dad?”Dad rolled his eyes up toward the ceiling. “Your patient respectfully chooses to invoke the protection granted to him under the Fifth Amendment of the United States. I instantly regretted my heated response—while Cate may have been younger, she was nowhere near as unpopular as I was, and had gone on quite a few."I've been around the block," she answered. "I'm not quite as terminally shy as you. Plus it's easier for girls," she added with a smirk as she gripped my upper arm. "Every guy in the world asks us out in the hope we'll say yes, whereas you guys have to work up the nerve to ask. That ultimately means the offensive jerks end up having a better shot. Just as we were leaving, Larry and Becky came in. They were both animated, wondering if we’d seen the television and all the news about ‘The Invisible Man’. I looked Larry in the eye and he shook his head ‘no’ after he saw my eyes look at Becky. I knew my friend was DYING to talk to me. I whispered to him that I would call him at home, possibly sometime late this afternoon. He said that they weren’t going to make it to the concert, but were planning on coming over on Saturday night.I was glad.