She was so scared and she wanted to go home. Not home to her old apartment with the bad heating, no air conditioning and lousy hot water. Or even back... to Toledo. She wanted to go home to her parents in Arizona. She wanted them to forgive her and love her again. And now she would probably never see them again. Her mind flashed onto the newspaper images. Men in jackets with the word CORONER emblazoned on the back in big white letters carrying a black bag that contained a body. The body of some. Before either woman realized it, it was already midnight. "Oh baby, I'm sorry, you need to get some sleep," said Sheila. "Don't leave yet, Mom," whispered Beth. Sheila smiled and agreed to stay, this time the women stretched out on Beth's bed, giving Sheila's back a rest. As Beth situated herself, trying desperately to get comfortable, Sheila slid up behind her, wrapping her arms around her daughter. Beth's body had begun to tingle again, still confusing her. "Get some rest, baby," Sheila. And almost all of them were ignoring her. The few who weren'twere giving her the creeps - their interest seemed to be sexual, and notin a nice way. People were talking to each other and to their eComs, andshe could understand the words but not the conversations. There weresigns everywhere, but she couldn't understand the funny squiggles theywere written in. They were almost like something out of a cartoon. She couldn't remember how they had taken her there, or how she had gottenaway. She needed. I missed being around her. Anyway I went over to see Tony one day, and Mrs. C answered the door. “Hi mom is Tony home” “Come in mike, no Tony left for school this morning” Of course I knew that I just wanted to be around her so I pretended like I didn’t know” “Oh man, I thought he was leaving tomorrow Oh well I guess I better go” “Don’t be silly Mike come on in, are you hungry? I can make you a sandwich” “That sounds great, mom do you have any ham” “Sure honey, here sit down” I sat down.