"He's afraid if he kisses me he's going to get put on a list of pedophiles," I said, pronouncing the word carefully, because I hadn't actually known it until I started dealing with Creepy Tim and it wasn't a word I had a lot of cause to use. "So we'll just wait until he's back to normal."

It wasn't that big a deal. I would wait forever for Eddie if I had to and I knew I didn't have to. Before long he would be right back to the way he used to be and everything could continue on as normal. Until it happened to me, or something else did.