It’s only 8:15.’ ‘Ma’am, I know about your little secret.’ Ida Brown turned white and raced to the phone. ‘Jessica, grab two coffees and f...od for you and Jake. It will go on my tab. Sit down Jake.’ Nash stood and repeated his request. The unsmiling Jake complied. ‘He’s on his way,’ Ida said. Nash thanked her and ordered hot milk for the kid and asked Ida to put everything being consumed on his tab. ‘No, I owe you one Nash,’ she replied. ‘This is all on me. I’ll pour coffee and butter a muffin. He realized he was supposed to be comforting her – and maybe he was – but he sure wasn’t doing much to comfort himself. He looked over at the kitchen counter and saw that the coffee was done, so he got up and went to pour them each a cup. He was careful to keep his back to his aunt so she wouldn’t see the bulge in his slacks. ‘Go on, Aunt Barb,’ he said as he poured coffee into two mugs he took out of the cupboard. ‘I’m listening.’ ‘He…he said he…he didn’t love me any…any more,’ Barbara sobbed,. Steele. She looks like she’s going to blow any second.”When the doors shut and we were out of sight, we both burst out laughing.“How the fuck did you get your face to be green?” “Alyssa is in the Drama Club. We did a little make-up between classes. It looks pretty convincing, right? Not too much?”I didn’t respond. She said Alyssa helped her, and I got very nervous with what she had said to her as to why Ash needed to fake a sick day.“Dad? Daddy?”“Did you… tell Alyssa?”“Daddy I… she’s like,. "I said, "Thank you Grace" and rolled on my side and in seconds drifted offto sleep.Dreams! What they can do to a person! Ricky and Rachel in the same body everchanging back and forth! Morphing from one shape to the other in vividdetail!That wasn't the bad part it was when it happened in school and in front ofthe Nelsons and Barbara that was horrifying! I kept morphing into each shapeslowly but surely in every scene! Each time shock and every differentemotion you can think of was registered on.