What do you Want to tell me?

"Well, what do you want to tell me?" I asked. It seemed the best question to ask, since Helen seemed bursting at the seams.

"YES!" Helen shouted, sitting back on me a little harder than she needed to and punching the air with her fist. "FUCKING YES! Hi Five! That's why I love you, that's why I... " She leaned down atop me again and kissed me urgently. "I don't regret it... I don't fucking regret a second of it."

She stopped. She looked at me urgently.

"This is a test. You're going to have to make a choice. Much as I want you to choose me, you can't choose me. No matter what. I love you, and things... well, things are already different then they ever have been before." The fog seemed to be swirling closer now. "Not much time left. Just remember that the game is fixed. No matter which choice you're offered, you're going to lose. But we can win. I wish I could remember what's happening, but until you have to make the choice... most of me goes back to sleep. Against the rules for me to get extra time. I know, the rules suck. "

"You're going to wake up in a few minutes. You'll think this was a dream. It wasn't. Remember A Penny saved. And I AM sorry about this."

She punched me again.

HARD.

Right in the face.