Need filled the woman. She could feel her faint substance dissipating, and she cast out with her mind. There! Further down in the building ... she dro...pped and passed through the floor.Knock knock knock!“Muh? Otie, getthdohr...”Knock knock knock!I raised my head from the pillow. “Otie! Get--!” Then I remembered that my changeling brother was missing. In fact, that could be him, if he had forgotten his key! I quickly pulled on my boxers and raced out to the living room as the knock came again.I. Erin took it to the kitchen to soak it so it wouldn't stain. I pulled a shirt from my closet for Chloe and she smiled gently as she put it on, minus her bra. She pulled on her skirt and that was it.Chloe walked with me into the living room. Renée sat on the love seat with her legs crossed and that mischievous smile in place. Erin returned from the kitchen and sat next to Renée. Chloe and I took up part of the couch."So," Erin said, looking over to Renée, "did you really believe that Ral and I. So we meandered south into western Massachusetts, stopping every time she saw a cute diner or a gift shop. We walked a trail together and she held my hand. We sat across from one another at lunch and dinner and her foot rubbed against my leg once or twice.We slept in neighboring rooms at a bed and breakfast for our first night away together, the doors pressed up against each other with just a thin wall keeping us apart. We lingered two beats too long in the hallway to say goodnight. Wrapped in. The problems started one day when an announcement came over theintercom. "Teachers, please excuse all boys who wish to try out for thebaseball team," Miss Clawstroke remarked with her typical deadpanexpression, "I don't think we'll have that problem in this class." Therewas a little nervous giggling from the girls, and some outright laughed.Jimmy was shocked, and Billy and Tommy blushed with embarrassment. "Howdare she?" thought Jimmy. "I can play baseball well enough to be on theteam. Who is.