It's going to be all right. Believe me."Do they tell you to be calm before your exiled? Gonna be all right under the goddamn bridge?I tried to talk an...d croaked instead. "Uh... I don't know what to say... I didn't... " Didn't plan this?" Plan it? I couldn't have imagined it!" Then I looked at her and added, "I don't know what to say." Try starting with the truth, why don't you?" The truth? You KNOW the truth. Jean told you the truth. It's true, what she said. Except that she took too much. "Jean and Tony exchanged glances and there was an ominous silence, and then Angie burst into tears. In the kitchen, after Angie had left, Jean suggested that they invite Angie over to join them for Christmas, but Tony demurred, and said that he was not prepared to put up with her husband, but Jean told him that apparently he was expecting to be on duty over Christmas and Angie would be on her own. So Tony agreed.The next day Tony had decided that he needed to get out and meet many of his old. “Rats got your bread.” he repeated. “I'm afraid that's what happens when you leave it lying around.” “I was asleep.” she protested, “I was feeling ill.” He took half a step back. “What kind of ill?” The last thing they needed in a place like this was an epidemic. “I don't know, nothing serious I guess, probably just from the cold.” He let out his breath in an irritated sigh. “I'll see is there's anything out the back.” he picked up the grey robe and slung it around his shoulders, striding back. "They dared me to do it. I didn'twant... I didn't... I didn't know!"I knew what he was talking about. Dad wasn't even fully aware of thedevelopments that my body had gone through. Only Mom and I were trulyaware of what my body was doing. But that was no excuse!"That doesn't make it okay!" I screamed at him! I wasn't ready to forgivehim! He'd embarrassed me in front of his friends in nearly the worstpossible way! The only thing that could have been worse was if the entiretowel had come off, and.