We chuckled a little at that, but I was still worried. The next day I knew I wouldn’t be able to concentrate until I heard the outcome of my father ...taking the evidence to his boss. As was becoming the case all too often, both girls were fast asleep before my eyes drifted shut finally.Mercifully, I didn’t remember my dreams when the alarm went off. I knew I’d had them. I was exhausted and the headache I was sporting would leave me in short temper if I didn’t keep an eye on myself. I got up and. "Okay, man. You're just gonna trip here for awhile. It's weird, I know. But you need to know I'm here for you. I'm gonna be right here for you.You're not alone. I got you."Adam shut his eyes and tried to wriggle free. All the while it felt likehe was on a ride at an amusement park. Being unable to move, he felt thespins even more sharply. But despite that, he could feel Conrad's armsaround his chest, and the stubble of his goatee rubbing up against hischeek."Shhhhhh," he said softly. . Even from his aerie he could see she was sad. He could almost hear her sighs. From the fountain, she walked to the house of a white wizard. Just outside the wizard’s house was a stall kept by a flower seller. He was just setting up shop for the day. She stopped there, and smiled for a moment before going in. The merchant tried to sell her his wares. She lost her smile then, shook her head, and went on her way. Always the same each day. Crossing the square at daybreak. The fountain. The flowers.. “Because I couldn’t lose you,” I told Dawn sincerely. “Not again.”“Not again,” Dawn agreed.“I don’t get it,” Adrienne sighed. “I thought you didn’t want her doing exactly what she’s doing right now: throwing a monkey wrench into our perfect life together.”“I didn’t. For an entire year, I didn’t. I avoided getting into situations where we’d have prolonged contact and I pushed her away the few times we did start to talk. I valued what the rest of us had together, and I didn’t want to mess with.