"Let me just call my parents first." I dialed my number and was lucky enough to get the answering machine. I left a hurried message."Ispentthenightata...friendshouseandI'mheadingstraightovertothestudiobye."I hung up before they could get to the phone.David's older brother Jon stumbled into the kitchen while Mrs. Hirsch was making waffles. "Who are you?" he asked me."I'm Jack, I'm a friend of David's." Oh, you're that kid from that TV show, right?" Yeah." Jack managed to get David a part in his new. ”“You’re not spying on them again, are you?”“No, not really, but twice this week when I opened the window to get some cooler air in the room, I caught an eye-full of them doing it. Tonight was just too much. I thought I better stay out here until they are done.”“What do you mean by ‘too much’?” I asked.Ron shrugged as he ran his hand through his hair and said, “It’s just too damn tempting not to look. You know, it’s like when you’re ten years old and have a bowl of candy sitting beside your bed. It had once been some sort of manufacturing plant, but none of that was currently visible. The ground floor was boarded up, but the second story might have been occupied. It was not obvious, but I thought that I could detect human mental activity in the back of the building. I did not want to probe deeply because the subject could sometimes detect me looking in, and the effect was generally alarming. Therefore, Juanita and I were going to have to make a physical search.I lifted us to the roof. Soonthe mayor wanted the potion out of his town before the whole town wouldchange sex without warning and make the lyrics, "Girls will be Boys andBoys will be Girls," from "Lola" by The Kinks a reality for the citizensof Apple Corners. Soon that same potion added apple juice to the mix ofpeyote and hormones. But the mayor ordered the police to arrest the makerof that potion and burn the contents of the strange potion before theentire police force would change to the opposite sex.Some of that.
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