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She shook her head

"You were trying to get his attention, weren't you? How foolish What a foolish little girl you can be Well, well clean this up later

"Now," she said pausing, "as I about to do before ere so rudely interrupted? What was it? Oh yes, get you cleaned up Then, well dress you in a coart to

enough to get you back downstairs where you belong

"Doesn't that all sound wonderful? Don't bother to thank me I know you're appreciative," she said and went into the bathrooain

"My mother has so many nice bath salts I'll pick one out for you," she shouted back to o a day without taking one whereas I prefer showers

"Megan, on the other hand, is more like my mother She likes to soak and soak, especially in those special skin oils She once took a bath in milk, you know, because she read that Cleopatra would do that Can you iine?"

She ca toward rin on her face

"Once I snuck into the bathroo one of her wonderful so-called skin soaks I tiptoed in and came up behind her and pushed her head under the water before she had a chance to resist I held it there a few seconds and she cary I said it was just a joke You like to laugh with your friends Now you can tell theht you should soak your whole head She was pretty angry at me and she didn't speak to me for days, but that didn't matter because we usually didn't have much to say to each other anyway

"You wouldn't get angry if I pushed your head under for a joke, noould you?" she asked, followed by a cold, thin laugh

I stared at her I felt so helpless, as ifbut still loose-- unconnected, not yet installed with any energy

"Noe get you out of that bed and into the tub?" she asked, tilting her head as she considered the probleart do it so well? I won't ask you how that fortune hunter of a therapist did it I hope he never did and if he did, don't tell me

"I guess I' you, is that it? I'et that chair and carry it back up here I'd still have to get you in and out of it anyhich is extra work You could cooperate and make it easier Are you

going to cooperate?

"Of course you are," she said with a smile "We're friends now that I've solved all the proble therapist, all of it When Megan and Grant do co pleasantly in the living room and they'll be very ian, she'll try toat all