Chapter 29

Friday, November 12, 1976

Wow! Less than two weeks until Thanksgiving. Where the hell had the year gone? I sat with my first cup of coffee thinking back over the last six months. I still couldn't believe all that had happened to me and to those I had come to love.

Missy wandered in and I fixed her a cup of coffee. We snuggled for a while. This was becoming one of my favorite things in life, snuggling with Missy in the mornings. She smiled and kissed me on the nose. <I love it when you start feeling the way you do right now. I can feel your love for me and I can feel the special bond we have. I know you and Sharon have a special bond too, and it doesn't bother me to know that. But what we have is special to us and I never want to lose it.>

<I know what you mean love. Let me ask you something. Don't you feel a special bond to Sharon too? I know she does for you.>

<Yes I do. It isn't exactly what I feel when I'm with you, but it's close. I don't think I could give her up either.>

<You know I love all of you. I lust after all of you. You and Sharon are something special though. Bonnie and Beth are special too, but in a different way. Probably because they are family. I feel so close to you and Sharon that I almost feel we are three parts of a whole.>

<I think that explains it pretty well. When I was younger, before my parents were killed, I dreamed about what life would be like when I got older. I guess all girls dream of finding just the right man and spending their life with him. I know I did. He'd be a businessman. We'd get married young and have two perfect children. I'd work at first to help out, but when we could afford it, I'd quit work to be a full time mother. It sure isn't working out that way.>

<Are you sorry it isn't working that way?>

<No way. I'm sure you can feel that. It's just that if you had told me a year ago I'd be sitting naked on a naked man's lap, loving him with all my heart, I'd have said you were crazy.>

<I know that feeling. If you'd told me a year ago I'd be inhabiting a seventeen year old body and have one of the two most beautiful women in the world sitting on my lap, I'd have said you were nuts too.>

Sharon came wandering in and Missy and I stood up. Sharon came over and we went into a three way hug, forming a triangle. Everyone equal. I intensified the link between us and I could feel Missy doing the same. Sharon caught on to what was going on and we submerged ourselves in each other. It was the most awesome experience of my life. Nothing was said. It didn't have to be.

Finally, I pulled away. I got fresh coffee for all of us, and when I sat back down, I found I had a naked girl on each knee. I looked at each of them and asked, <When we have the business up and running, why don't the three of us take a trip together?>

I could feel the joy from both of them when I asked this. Sharon kissed me gently then said, <I think that would be perfect. I feel it too you know. That special bond between the three of us. If anything happened to either of you, I think I'd die.>

We were still sitting there, still closely linked when the rest of the family started wandering in. I didn't even realize they were there. They left us alone and went about their business until Beth came over and touched me on the shoulder.

<Are you three going to sit there all day?> she asked. <We've been talking to you both orally and mentally for almost an hour and you've ignored us completely.>

<I'm sorry, sister mine. We were communing.>

<I'll say. Even Cindi couldn't pick up what you were thinking. Where were you anyway?>

<I don't think we were thinking, > Sharon told her. <We were just enjoying each other.>

<I'll say, > Missy added.

<So what's everyone up to today?> I asked.

<Bonnie and Thelma are going to take John in to meet our broker and get him signed up so he can make transactions for us. Cindi, Melly and I are going to go pick up office supplies and that kind of thing.>

<Sharon and I have to pick up the pictures of Daniels, but that's not until this evening. I think we're just going to drive around for a while and look at some properties. It may give Missy an idea of what else she needs to study.>

We did eventually get out and drove around looking at places that were advertised in the newspaper, but it was late afternoon before we left the house. Until we did, we did a lot of soul searching. We experimented a little and found we could form a separate link for just the three of us. We felt a little guilty about doing it, but the need to feel close overrode the guilt.

<You know, there are just too many of us to feel the closeness we want, > I said as we snuggled on the sofa. <I've gone from not wanting to share any of you to wanting it to just be the three of us. I feel bad about it, but there's really nothing I can do about how I feel.>

<Mike, you can't say it like that to the others, > Sharon warned me. <That sounds like rejection, and it would definitely hurt them. I know that's not what you mean anyway.>

<No, it's not. I just wish we had found some guy who would fit in with the group though.>

<Oh, you want us to be with some other guy?> Missy teased.

<Not you two, > I said. <I wouldn't mind if the others did though.>

When we left the house, we decided to stop by K-Mart to see if they had any area maps. We were looking through them when I spotted the woman we had seen in Reno and Las Vegas. <Ladies, we have a problem, > I said. <The woman we saw in Nevada is standing over there by the cards.>

Sharon and Missy glanced that way then nodded. <Let's pay for our maps and see if she follows us out. If she does, I want to talk to her.>

We went through the express checkout and were outside within a few minutes. We hadn't much more than gotten through the door when the woman came out and looked toward the Suburban.

I stepped up on one side of her, and Missy moved to her other side.

"Hello there. I'm Mike, but you already know that. I think it's time we had a talk. What do you say?"

The woman looked startled, then she let out a big sigh. "I'm Sheila Sparks. I guess you're right. Can we talk in your truck?"

We went over to the Suburban. Sharon and I got in the front and Sheila and Missy got in the back. "So, why have you been following us Sheila?"

"Right to the point huh? Okay, I'd be worried if I were in your position too. Mike, I know you guys are telepaths. I know because I'm one as well. I've been following you because we wanted to see what you guys were like before we made contact with you."

"Who is the 'we'?"

"I belong to a group of people who have telepathic abilities. Some of us have them all of the time, with others it is only there during times of excitement or stress. We have been considering asking you to join us."

"Why would you want us to join you?" Sharon asked.

"You are a unique group Sharon. There are eight of you. You all have telepathic abilities and you all have them all of the time. That is unheard of. Ninety percent of us only have them sporadically. We are hoping we can learn from you."

"What makes you think we have some kind of secret?" Missy asked her.

"We don't know that you do. I think every one of us in the group has learned something from every one of the others though. We worked for about six months to develop a mind shield. You guys had never even thought of a mind shield, then on the day you felt you needed one, you had one immediately. One better than ours I might add."