I heard the water start and I started down the stairs. XXX Of course, any guy in his right frame of mind would be hard as will. She reached into the refrigerator to get cold water in a plastic milk jug. Somehow, I managed to say “I – I got to go- go downstairs and be – be with Mike.” I had a hard time getting the words to come out. I was standing at the counter and Mike had been sitting at the table when his sisters walked in. She managed him inside somehow as she zipped it up. “Looking for this, perhaps,” she asked holding a blue towel. Years went by and we saw each other a lot more, I’m not talking about Mike and I, but the twins. No? I gathered my toothpaste and brush, as I listened for the silence in the




















