I do know my sisters have the utmost respect for you."I laugh and confess, "Alexi, I make mistakes all the time! One of the biggest mistakes was how I...treated you and your sisters. But the biggest of all was how I treated my love, Ben. I didn't know at the time but he had been conditioned to avoid being trapped and my love for him made him feel trapped so that's what made him run away."Alexi seems to be processing the information I gave him, then he states, "I wish there was an easier way to. "Hello?" she once again called out to thin air.Terry...no, Larry?...started to stretch his body this way and that, tensing up his muscles.Angel found it worriedly distracting. "What are you doing?" Testing my new body out," he replied. "Boom!" He flexed his arms, causing his biceps to bulge in a sexy, masculine fashion.Angel had always found Max sexy, so this was problematic. She could feel herself getting wet watching this geek strut around in her crush's hot body like that. She tried to. It was a breeze! On the other hand, I had to deal with hundreds of other students. Which isn’t so bad… it was worse from first through to about fifth. Most of the time unless I pry (and Dad taught me to never do that because it was an invasion) I only got snippets of thought. You see, the only time someone broadcasts their thoughts is when the thought it is tied to emotion. A bully pissed off at someone, a happy couple talking in the courtyard, the whole class when they’re taking a test! On. I'm going to look into it even if the police do their job." What can you do that the police can't?" She held up her hand before I could answer. "Never mind, I forgot for a second who I was talking to."I smiled at her and said, "I can find out things the cops can't cause they got rules they have to go by. Me? As the song says, 'I've got friends in low places' ... friends that can get information and not worry about rules. At least they can and will if I ask them nice."My stupid cell phone.