.. but I made myself forgetit. Lately, though, it was increasingly starting to nag me."I know this is going to sound crazy, but you don't think Darla ...ight'veslipped something into my drink sometime, do you?" I asked. I wasstanding in the bedroom in my underwear, which I now had to roll down acouple of times, or else they'd fit like a big, white diaper. I wasabout to slip on a T-shirt when Emily stormed into the room."What are you saying?" she demanded."Well, I know she hates me," I said.. Please take care reading.BreakdownThere was only darkness.Then with a burst of light and sound, I am.****I know a word.Breakdown.I can't remember where I heard the word, but I think it is not a goodword. I wish I could remember why.****I remember where I heard my word. There were two voices, talkingnearby. One was a soft, high voice, and it said something I could notunderstand. Then the other voice, which was deeper and louder,responded by saying my word.The soft-voiced one did not like the. We’ll worry about tomorrow when it gets here.”She glanced at the curtain. “And what about Mom? If she finds out...”“IF she finds out, we’ll be honest with her,” I said.“She’ll kick us both out of the house.”“Not while there’s too much snow to open a door.”“How can you be so calm about this?”“Will panicking help?”“Well, no, of course not.”“And neither will having hypothetical conversations.”“Yeah, but with the hypothetical, we can at least come up with what to say.”I shook my head. “As long as. Sooner or later we had to face the music. It was past nine o'clock, and even though Margaret and Harlan knew where we were and what we were up to, Debbie didn't. I had no change of clothes, but I took advantage of the shower and cleaned myself up. I could shave later. Rose had a special chair in the large shower enclosure and I helped her into it, although she was quite capable of doing that herself."The next time, we'll shower together," she grinned, "and I'll show you what else we can do.