I make my way back inside and take the stairs to the third floor. I imagine complex machines and electronics don’t work while the world is stopped. ...I find room 302 and hit play. As I put my hand up to knock I hear a voice. “Come in son, I know you’re there.” When I step inside I see an older man, around my mothers age. He smiles at me, but I don’t smile back. I’m just confused.“I have so many questions.”“I know you do, sit down junior” I do as I’m told.“What the hell is going on? What is this. She was stripping thebed and she saw a pair of panties which she knew wasn't hers.She got on the phone and she called her best friend who lived just acouple of miles down the road.She said, "I am so angry with Andy's cheating. Just this morning Isaw a pair of panties I know aren't mine."Her friend said, "I think I may have a solution but it will take allof us women to get it done."She asked, "What solution are you thinking?"Her friend said, "When is your husband due to be home?"Linda looked at. I do have limits, but I don't know them yet." Excellent answer, Cadet Thistle," Commandant Mackie remarked. "You haven't been told, but there's a reason that you have auditioned as Harmony's boyfriend; it is beneficial to both of you. Harmony needs a boyfriend. You need to become a man."He went on to talk about sexual orientation and testing—most of that went over my head. I think I got the gist of it, though."What about Miss Krystal?" I asked. "Harmony and Miss Krystal are getting married." It. I was the child prodigy of my brilliant parents and even if people didn't know exactly what I'd done or what I was doing, I was still a star in the medical world. A bright one. If I chose to walk away from Horace Tufts ... If I could walk away ... I could go anywhere. Do anything. I could put my failure behind me and move on. Maybe. If I could stop crying. All I had to do was pick up the phone.So I did."Where you going?" Dana was sitting in the kitchen the next morning, nursing Steven at her.