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I because in those days, one day just bled into the next and my mind was already half gone.

So how do you explain yourself to a girl, or woman, who probably hates you and feels that you
betrayed her trust somehow? I try to tell her I'm sorry but she tells me to just forget about it, and
then I leave. How the fuck am I suppose to go in there and buy groceries if she's working there
now? I certainly don't feel like walking all the way over to the next store. Damn it.

Chapter 33:
THE HUMAN CONDITION

I'm a few yards away from Chase Mart's front entrance walking in the direction of my home
thinking about how the clouds are beginning to separate so that the Sun's light might be visible
once again, but what I don't know at the time is that our entire building won't have power for two
days and two nights, and for such a short storm it definitely wasn't worth it.

I guess what I should be thinking about is how I mistreated Julia, and that I should be more
considerate towards the ways other people may feel. I know what happened will stay in the back of
my mind, but it will never make it to the front.

I walk up the stairs and when I reach the top, I see Mary in the distance entering an apartment.
Mary does not live on this floor, but she is friends with one of the people who do. I head towards
my apartment and open the door and then sit on my couch. This lovely couch.

Julia's facial expression echoes in my mind, and piece by piece I begin to remember the things we
did together. In an effort to not fall asleep I grab my television remote and press the power button,
but nothing happens. I forgot that the power was out, which reminds me why I went to the store in
the first place.

I knock on Lynne's door, and this time it's Sarah who answers, this cute little kid. "Mommy, it's
your flower friend." What is a flower friend? Lynne comes to the front door and I hand her the
batteries and I let her know she doesn't have to pay me back. Lynne asks me if I'm busy, that if I'm
not doing anything if I would like to come over. She tells me that since the power went out, her and
her mother and kids are just sitting around talking, trying to pass the time and hoping that the
power will be back on in an hour or two.

Even though I hate sitting around talking, I find it difficult to say no to her, and then she invites me
in. She tells the kids that I brought over batteries for their games. They both run into their room and
then run back out with these little devices, then Lynne puts batteries in them both, and then David
and Sarah are instantly in another world.

Emily, Lynne's mother, says hello and I greet her back and Lynne tells me to sit down. Lynne
almost looks nothing like her mom. Sometimes a trait might skip a generation due to the lack of
genes necessary to create that combination for that trait, so there is a chance that Sarah might end
up looking more like her grandmother than her mother. I kind of know Lynne and her behavioral
properties, but I have no idea what Emily is like, but the question I have is if Sarah will behave
more like her grandmother than her mother as well.