Another lie but the thought really bothered him. "So I checked your room and saw that you were still there sleeping. My knee gave out on me and I smac...ed the wall... hope I didn't wake you"She looked at him and asked "is your knee ok"?"Oh yeah its fine. Must be getting out of shape or maybe it was from relief of finding you still here"She beamed at him in that angelic way of her's and said in her cheerist voice "oh daddy I'd never sneak out"Mark watched as she downed the last of the water and. "Helen paused for a second and looked up at me for a few seconds beforeshe rattled off some questions."Have you noticed any changes in yourself in the past few months?" sheasked. "Do you resent your wife for having lovers or feel you have tocompete with them? And, finally, how do you feel about the lack of sex ofany kind in your life and, if so, what do you think can be done aboutthat?"I was initially taken aback by the blunt questions and tried to formulatea reply. The questions did hit a. "We can't go someplace like that," the Goliath/boy said. "They'll throw us out." No they won't dummy," Hotdog/boy said. "We're humans now, remember." Oh yeah," Goliath/boy said. "I forgot."So it was decided. Hotdog led them down the streets towards the Chok'lit Shoppe. When they got there they walked in and settled into one of the empty booths.Pop came over to take the order of the new boys."What can I get you boys?" He asked.The three new human boys looked at the strange symbols on the menu.. "Really?"There was a light in her eyes now, a blue like the sky on a winter morning, a cold clarity that had faded since the discovery of the child. It ignited to blue fire when I nodded desperately."Oh, daddy!"She threw her arms around my neck. I kissed her cheek, her ear, her neck.The water sprung on in the bathroom and the shower door rattled shut. Five minutes.Katherine kissed me back, tugging on my shirt, easing herself down into the couch pillows with me on top of her."We'll find a way,.