As soon as we got to the room I flopped on the bed and I was out like a light even though it was 2pm. I glanced over to the clock: 6pm. Still very, gr...ggy I rolled over and half drifted off again. She carried on yabbering about all sorts of boring, insignificant things. Amongst others: how difficult it was to wake me (why wake me in the 1st place? This is a holiday!), how the shower turned into a bath (who cares?) and how she thought she caught the sun (well duh!). I was about to jump up and. "* * *"Is that you David?" asked Stacy as I caught up with her trolley in therecovery room. I was now in pale green theatre clothes and a mask coveredmy face."Yep," I replied. "Who else were you expecting? I'll be with you for theoperation, so you just relax." Thanks. How come you're so mature?" I think it's because I was taught so by my parents. Also the situationat school didn't give me time to be silly. In some ways it's harder topretend to not be as clever and it certainly makes you. She puts her dirty clothes in her hamper and takes her robe off. She throws it in the floor and walks over to her answering machine. She sees that it is blinking and that makes her happy. She really hopes that Mark has called her. Katie reaches down and pushes the button on her machine."Two messages." the machine says.The first message is an ad. Katie pushes delete and gets rid of it. But the next message is something special."Hey Sexy. This is Mark. I really had a lot of fun with you last. He explained that he had gotten into a fight with his girlfriend and that she had taken off in his car. They had broke up, it seemed. He was pretty upset about it and it didn’t seem prudent to press him too much. We moved on and began talking about other stuff: school, football, friends, etc. Eventually we got onto the topic of girls:“Now that you and Megan are broken up, are you going to ask Sarah out?”“I don’t know. I might take a break from all of that. Right now, I just want to focus on.