She walks over and gently wakes Jarod, "I think she's coming around." she whispers to her groggy son, who's still fighting the effects of the sedative...s he was given hours ago.Jarod presses the button of the side of the bed as Micheal fully opens her eyes, focusing on him, blinking sluggishly. "You're OK Baby." he could kick himself for reminding her about the baby. Micheal goes to move her hands to her stomach and he stops her, raising them to his lips trying to distract her by kissing them.. Ihate it when she does that. I was in my room with Jack, my best friend,playing 'Monopoly' when her screechy voice came across. "Who is she yelling at?" Jack asked. I had to admit that she was askingme. "Doesn't she know you have a guest over?" he wondered out loud."I guess not, or she doesn't care. She likes to embarrass me for somereason. She thinks it's funny to ask me about her clothes and doesn'tcare who hears it," I informed Jack."Okay, but why would you have seen her bra?" he questioned. My room was on the third floor of the old house, sort of an attic under the roof with sloping ceiling and two dormer windows. There were two overseas grad students on the second floor, who I rarely encountered, and Mrs. W. resided on the main floor. I was given a key to the front door so I could come in late without waking her. After a few weeks I could tell that the old girl liked me as she would stop me on my way upstairs to chat about this and that. She would trudge all the way up to my room. " Bullshit, Jeb. You know they'll be after us."Annie looked around at all Jeff's wives who had quietly settled around them, listening to the conversation. "A couple months ago, we woke up when our bedroom door opened. When I flipped the bedside light on, this guy was walking toward us with a knife in his hand. Jeb grabbed his gun from under the pillow..."Jeb broke in with, "I'm so damn old that it took me a while to get on my feet. By the time I got to the living room, he was going back out the.
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