Chapter 21

I was flat on my back in bed, in a room I didn’t recognize. “Lee, you have to stop this habit of waking up in unfamiliar places,” I mumbled to myself.

I looked around. The wall at the head of my bed was cream and there was a curtain around my bed. I reached out and pulled it. Behind it were a couple of other beds. I looked myself over; I was in a gown, covered in a blanket with a huge symbol on it. I was in the hospital.

Ann won that fight. I smiled to myself, grateful to my nutty sister. Just then two pretty faces appeared from behind the curtain.

“Hi. How are you feeling?” Maria sat on the edge of my bed. Ann sat in the chair.

“‘Are you okay’ ‘how are you feeling’ those words are becoming very common lines in our diction these days. I’m fine.”

“Our lives have become even more eventful these days.”

“I knew those guys were trouble the minute I saw them,