“It’s a CD full of old-school Goth music. Try it, you’ll like it.”“Who’s on it?”“You know, The Sisters, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Fields, Min...stry, all the big names the yuppies will never know.”“I’m depressed Ian, how is listing to whiners whine about being more depressed than me going to make me feel better.”“Ahh, that is the reason I hand you the classics my negative minded friend. It’s only after Goth became popular that everyone started singing about death and vampires and shit like that. You. Underno circumstances would she ever tell her parents about anything remotelylike this."Then we won't," Zoe replied. It might be right for Richard and Susie,but it was definitely not right for them. "Are you still mad at me?"She'd completely lashed out at Zoe, who had simply tried her best to keepthings from becoming extremely awkward, but Zoe was asking her if she wasmad instead? It was too much, and she just hugged her girlfriend as hardas she could with her deteriorated body, cursing herself. " I replied."The band is really good, aren't they?" Yes, I was just thinking how much I love this song." Well, then you should get out there and dance," Alejandro said withgrin on his face as he grabbed me by the hand and dragged me towards thearea in front of the stage."No, I can't-" I started to protest but Alejandro would not be deterredand with his strength I was hardly able to resist.Once we got out in the dance area, with couples, parents dancing withtheir children, some of the older. I had kept her out of school and, not knowing what to do, took her to our family doctor. He hummed and hawed and inspected her throat and eyes and ears. He listened to her chest and after a pause to think, announced Addison had the flu. I wasn’t impressed. Had he been our doctor for a long time?Addison confirmed he’d been our doctor, like, forever. I filled the prescription for antiviral drugs and took my daughter home.Two days later, I called the doctor to find out how long the drugs took to.