. There, that’s better. What’s up?”“Mel, you’d never guess! Roger and I finally managed to have a long talk, in bed as you might guess. Sinc...e I’ve been back, he’s barely spoken to me. It was like living at the North Pole. I finally gave him a load of shit and told him I’d cut off his balls if he didn’t tell me what the matter was.”“The reason he didn’t want to come was because he thought I was getting bored with him and wanted to bring Paul back into the mix like our first time. He didn’t want. R.C.E.” and David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” were about to get knocked off the top spots. Without a record player there was no point in me buying anything, though I was thinking of giving Jen and Hamish record tokens if I couldn’t find anything more personal. I had a mischievous moment when I saw that Perry Como’s 40 Greatest Hits was the top selling album, but decided that Mum might not find the joke amusing, unless I gave it to Dad!Then I did some random window shopping for Christmas presents.. She then opened the closet and pulled out a sort of stretcher like you see on medical drama shows on TV when somebody has suffered a back injury. She shoved it underneath me and then undid the rope on my right leg. I tried to kick out at her but she grabbed me by the ankle and quickly strapped it to the stretcher. My left ankle soon followed and I realized with a sinking heart that Sylvia would soon have me secured to the stretcher without ever freeing more than one limb at a time.She. “Third period just started.” The nurse responds, clarifying.“Oh… Wow…” I say slightly shocked. Has Pat been here the entire time? Or did he go to class, and come back? Though if he went to class and came back- would he have put me back on his shoulder? “Mister super soldier over here hasn’t left your side yet…” the nurse says, almost as if she could read my mind.“First day and your already cutting classes?” I say looking at him with a sly grin.“You know it.” He smiles at me.“What do we have.