She nodded but didn’t look up. As she got up and was trying to get out of the bedroom, suddenly I grabbed her hand, just above her elbow. She resist...ed a little bit, very confused on how to react. I felt she would cry but she stopped resisting yet she still didn’t look at me. I again said sorry and went out of the room before her. She was suppose to put the food back in the freezer from the dining table but she didn’ t come out. I was afraid if she would call my Uncle or Mom and worse wake up my. ”“It’s a deal,” Steven said yawning.“Tomorrow,” said the tinker. “You are about to go to sleep tonight. You must have come far.”“Two hundred twenty-eight thousand eight hundred seventy-three steps,” Steven recited as he prepared his bedroll by the fire. Then he added, “That way,” pointing back down the road he had come by.“You don’t say,” said the tinker, genuinely amazed. “I didn’t know the world went on so far. Well, there are a good many more steps ahead of you than behind,” he chuckled.. " I smile and he laughs softly. "Shower time?" He asks and I kiss him hard. We walk into the shop and I walk over to the racks against the wall. I look back and he's standing by the door looking at the mannequins and sets lining the walls. "Damien!" I whisper yell to him and he looks over at me and grins,"Are you going to help me?" He walks over to me and starts shifting through the racks. "Just pick anything?" "Anything you'd want to see me in..." I whisper and run my fingers across his belt. “I can’t say I blame you. I wouldn’t have wanted to deliver that piece of news in your shoes either. Mike at work?” I asked.“Yeah,” she admitted. “He’d have been here, but the doctor wasn’t sure you’d wake up today.”“It’s okay,” I said. “What are the parents doing about all of this?” I asked.“I don’t know,” she admitted. “They came to see you when they came to pick Linda and Billy up. They didn’t say much, just wanted to see you.”I nodded. “I suppose I can understand that,” I said woodenly. In.