"Something like that. A little birdie told me hidden treasures might await a girl willing to take a chance."I looked at the set of tables and saw that... the number had grown from eight to thirteen with the arrival of my school friends Mark, Lynn, Sean, Cindy and Penny. That left a possible seven more and I was just about to try and think of who they could be when Simone jumped off my lap and Patty began attacking the button and zipper of my trousers.I went to try and stop her with my left hand. My family. My birthday. This must be some kind ofalternate reality where Tony was born a girl or something.My sister poked her head back into the kitchen and asked, "Did you wantto use the shower first?" Sure," I said getting up and walking back to the bathroom, eager tokeep moving and to not dwell on my current situation. I closed thebathroom door, took a deep breath, and turned back to Christina in themirror. "What did I get myself into?" I said to her.I turned the shower's water knob on and. “I don’t wanna lose any of you too.”“I’ll walk with ‘em,” said Beth. “Anyone’ll die if he just looks crosseyed at us. We’ll just walk the main street an’ if Rex picks up a scent, we’ll come back for you. Philomena knows where we already looked so you go with her.” We walked about for near an hour askin’ questions but nobody could offer any clue to where we could find Faith. We wuz walkin’ back to our meetin’ place with Beth an’ the others when a galoot come stumblin’ out a saloon door an’. Kelly and Dad -- pretending to be husband and wife -- took the twins to some Disney/Pixar movie. For awhile, they could act the part of the happy-go-lucky teens they once were. Kelly, especially when wearing Mom's clothes, passed herself off as older so she could be seen with Dad. At the movie, they sat in the back and made out like teenagers (of course).Marie was over at the Meyer house -- which by now should have had a revolving door on it for all the sex that saw its way in and out of there..