"Take her with you, I know you'll take good care of her and make sureshe gets a good education. I can see it in your eyes. You got aboutfive minutes t... decide."I looked at Samantha and hope sitting anxious in the car waiting likeI'd told them too."I'd rather know she's going to be a Kitten than a piece of meat forthe Orphanage, besides I think they do a lot of good things at thatschool you come from."When I looked stunned he said, "My Aunt was a Kitten. Now please takeher and go." Colene? Do. I've seen that look before." You tell her." No, you tell her." No, you."We tossed the conversational hot potato back and forth until Nina got exasperated."Would you quit arguing and one of you tell me whatever it is you want to tell me, please."Like guilty school kids we continued for a bit longer silently until finally I grabbed the conversational bull by the horns so to speak and told her the first bit of our news."We found a house."Nina was almost as pleased as we had been when we had. When I started feeling sexual urges as a teenager, I tried my best to repress them. Discovering that I was also attracted to girls wasn't a very welcome surprise either. Alexis Rheaves was not the type of girl to have sex before marriage, I kept telling myself. However, things were fixing to change as I was accepted into my dream college... which was, incidentally, hours away from my parents. My parents saw me off with stern warnings to focus on school and not pay attention to any potential. I wondered what the shrinks would get out of that.It was quite late when I had done all my schoolwork for the next week. Suddenly my phone rang. No caller ID. I hesitated for a moment before answering."Eric."Before anything else, there were sobs on the other end."Thank God you answered. Please can you pick me up? I could only remember your number. Please come."And then there were more sobs. Marie. What in hell had happened?"Marie, what is the problem - and where are you?"She was in a payphone.