" Normal time?" If I must. But we're really working on this thing. I want to have a couple of tabs ready before Christmas. It'll make Bill relax." Tak... your time. We'll be okay." I love you, you know." And I love YOU, too. And one day we won't have to..." If that's what we want. These things are my marathons." I know," I said. "Cindy told me about the 'I'm bored, let's engineer' phone calls." Oh." Oh, don't sound so caught. Cindy said you called to talk to Dan and she hijacked the. Everything. And what did your Aunt Jenn tell you?"I laughed. "She said pull up my 'big girl' pants, that 'better or worse' is real, and she sincerely doubted that with what she knew of Vicki, 'worse' wasn't much of an expectation." Wise woman, your Aunt Jenn." Uh-huh," I said. "When she's not thinking I'm insane." I imagine showing up with Tim in tow precipitated some of that." You know it. But he's sooooo perfect. She HAD to like 'im." Still insane, though," she laughed."Like YOU'RE not crazy. I am curious howsuccessful you are going to be this time; we both know how many times youfailed in the past." "Don't be hard on him Pam," Tania said, "He just started his new phase,he certainly needs lots of improvements to become more realistic on hismaid's role." She paused and looked at Pam in an inquiring way. "Are youthinking of letting him go to a more drastic 'makeover' phase? I know hewould love that, but of course you are his partner and probably I shouldadd employer from now on."I was. Tim smiled, knowing she enjoyed asking questions because Tim reacted like having his teeth pulled. “Well, before I got my growth spurt, my main object between periods was to actually get from one class to the other. Hopefully, I didn’t cause anyone to actually notice me as I skirted around everyone and avoided every clique holding court in the hallway.”“I ask again, how is this different?” The Cheshire grin she was sporting was equally playful and threatening. The classroom was quickly filling.