Black spike heels were next, followed by nude stockings and a black garter belt. Jackie looked stunning when she emerged from the dressing room to sho... me. She wore a big grin. “Steve won’t be able to resist with this outfit. Hmmmm…I wonder if we will be able to make it to the hotel room at the beach after the dance…” she said teasingly.“You look perfect,” I complimented her. “For a smarty pants engineer, you sure are sexy.” This made her laugh. She appreciated the compliment but also I sensed. "TJ was watching over this brother/sister, idly watching TV, when Haland Dr. Bellows walked into the suite.Dr. Bellows asked the nurse for an update on her condition and listenedas she explained things were stable, virtually unchanged in theprevious hour. Hal walked over to TJ."Hi, I'm Hal Stevens and you are?" Hal asked, extending his hand."TJ Williams, John's brother. I came out with our mom at Annie'srequest," TJ shook his hand."I don't know how I should react to you," TJ said. "On the one. So if we have to use your dream, can you set it up so Rachel can leave on her own whenever she wants? I'm sure I missed something, did you think of any others?" That covers a lot of the basic ones. Then there are the dangerous ones." Dangerous?" Yeah, like what happens if Mom is in Rachel's dream and Rachel wakes up?" Wouldn't the dream just fade and Mom go back to her own dreams?" That's just it, I don't know. What if Mom doesn't go back to her own dreams? What if she's stuck there? I've never. You're going to have to come up with a better argument than that Mikey." I gaped at him slack-jawed. Something BETTER? I couldn't figure out what or why he was doing this to me. Was fear his primary motivator? If it was, I felt certain I could teach him a thing about fear and abject terror. I was becoming desperate. I couldn't seem to think straight, then Gary interrupted my futile attempts to "come up with something better." "Mike, thoughts have been going through my head. Watching you sleep.