.. Room, I wish that me and Steve would be transformed into birdsbut would have the same mind power as a human."Shimmer, and Steve was standing on the... floor looking up to the room,just like when he was shrunk.(Steve? Can you hear me) Thought Mindy.(Loud and clear, lets get out the window.)Steve hoped up with a bit of a flutter onto the window ledge. He didn'tknow how, but it seemed instinct in this body that he jumped out thewindow and started soaring around in the sky. He looked down and. It wasn't that hard pretending to be Peter's wife. Mentally Mila hadactually become her sister, being Peter's wife was all pretence andpretty easy to do. All she had to do was dote on him and be subservientto him while he was around and all he had to do was pretend that he hadlove and respect for her.The hardest part of that week for Mila was not being able to be alonewith Steven for any length of time.Steven only visited Peter's apartment occasionally now that Mila wastotally transformed. . We drove to the small town of Perry where he got a case of beer, some ice & a pint of Jack Daniels & I grabbed two boxes of wine. He paid for it all over my objections. We get into the car & head back a different way than we came. He opened the pint & drank some before passing it over to me, telling me to have some. I don’t really care for straight hard liquor but I did as I was told. He asked if I wanted to go to a party & I said sure. The road we were on took me back to the parking lot I was. Within the limitations of his meager savings, he would even buy himself a few presents to be religiously wrapped and placed beneath the tree on Christmas Eve.To the outside world that year, it was an elderly and rather melancholy-looking gentleman that took his time wandering around the stores, picking up and studying the latest toys, deriving tactile pleasure from simply holding the many items that represented those seasonal childhood yearnings. Occasionally he would smile as he held aloft a.