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Dear God!

I screamed and buried my face in my pillow

"What?!" I heard him ask "Did you see a roach?"

"Why are you naked?!" I did not dare lift my red face

"Huh Is that all?" he asked "I always sleep in the buff I don’t kno you can stand all that clothing"

"Unbelievable," I said I pulled myself up and stomped to the bathroom

We’d been on the road for over one hundred h the local radio pickings When we heard, "I’ave a s the station again and settling on an angsty fees of I-40 lined in green brush We passed ranches and far and abandoned Wethe way

"Hungry?" Kaidan asked I shrugged, then nodded

He pulled into the almost empty lot of a pancake restaurant Inside, we seated ourselves in a booth with cracked cushions A tired-looking waitress, not much older than us, approached A heat of contentet you to drink?" she asked, unfriendly

"Coffee," said Kaidan

She looked to et our beverages

"She’s pregnant," I whispered

He looked at her and shook his head

"Doesn’t look like it," he said

That didn’t h Sonancies A girl at school hid it from everyone until her sixth month

"I can sense the baby, can’t you?"

"No"

Maybe it was ination, but he see he couldn’t We both watched her fros She herself was not content, shrouded in gray

She brought our drinks and took our orders I tried to smile at her, but she avoided my eyes