Author: Thinking Horndog
Title: Friendly Traveler's Inn: Room 212
Part: 4 of 12
Universe: Friendly Traveler's Inn
Summary: Mike Webber had trouble dating, so he set out to visit the 'hook-up'
motel his friend told him about and met Lois, who had even worse issues, and
wasn't quite what she appeared to be -- or was she?

Keywords: MF MFF mM mm MM M+m M+f mf Ff blackmail rape reluc bd humil oral
anal voy bi 1st tg

Chapter 4

	The next week, they started the new routine -- Tuesday and Thursday,
they would have an abbreviated practice in which Lou would participate, then
he would go off with one of the girls, don a bra and panties and sneakers and
a pink sweatsuit and return when the sports teams had cleared out and the team
would do their competition practice with Lois present.  It would have been
nice to be able to do things only one way, but while virtually no one went to
cheerleading competitions, the teams and their parents, the band, and other
fans went to football games, in particular.  There would be too many people at
games who would know Lou -- and not know Lois.  It was confusing; some of the
girls --Becky in particular -- always seemed to get his/her name wrong.
Marlene just called Lou 'Honey', whether Lou was in either mode.  Lou found
the being Lois was as comfortable -- if not more so -- than being Lou -- and
that he slipped, regularly, especially when walking.  The girls took turns
watching over him when he operated in male mode -- in one particularly
embarrassing incident, Becky caught up to him in the halls and said -- fairly
loudly, "Lois, honey, you're walking funny," -- while he was dressed out as
Lou.  That got some laughs.  The assumption that he was probably gay anyway
got reinforcement -- and there was nothing Lou could do about it.

	The second week in, Ed showed up at the house on Wednesday; Lou's dad,
unaware that there was a rift between them, let him in and called Lou
downstairs.  "Hey, Lou," Ed said sheepishly.

	"Hey, Ed."  Lou decided that his father didn't need to see a scene.

	"Can we talk?  I need to tell you something."

	Lou thought about it and decided that it was worth the risk.  Ed WAS
his oldest friend, after all...  "Sure, let's go upstairs."  Lou's father, who
thought it was wonderful that Lou had an honest to God jock for a friend,
beamed and wandered off, and Lou led Ed upstairs.

	Lou took his desk chair and Ed settled on the bed, looking hangdog.
"Look, Lou -- I'm REAL sorry..."  The whole thing came out in pieces; Lou was
literally the only person Ed could talk to about it -- but that didn't make it
easy...  "Mike invited me to his place and we, well, you know...  Afterwards,
I couldn't handle it, you know?  I mean, guys...  Then we all got together
that time, and Mike messed with you, and you got all upset -- and when I went
to talk to him about it, he said some things...  I dunno -- they made sense,
in a weird way..."

	"I know," Lou said tonelessly.  "I heard some of them."

	"He had me convinced -- I had me convinced...  I'm real sorry..."

	Lou nodded.  Some time had passed -- and, if anything, Lou was more
confused, too.  "Remember what I asked you the next day?" he asked.  "Has it
changed?"

	"No," Ed looked mournful.  "I know -- but I don't know."

	Lou suspected as much; Ed hadn't called him 'Man', once.  Ed seldom
went to the effort to call him Lou...  "That's not a surprise, I guess," he
muttered wryly, "Tuesdays and Thursdays I don't know, myself.  But..."

	"It was still wrong," Ed finished for him.  Male or female, he'd been
raped.

	"Look, I... need a friend," Ed husked.  "Mike...  I can't stop..."  Ed
broke down at that point.  Slowly, it came out; Mike had him hooked on
homosexual sex.  Ed thought that if he had a girlfriend -- or even just had
sex with a girl -- it might break the cycle; that was sort of what impelled
him to go along with Mike's mad plan to rape Lou.  But now that he'd tasted
the forbidden fruit, Ed couldn't just go back to beating off -- and Mike
wouldn't let him, anyway.  When Ed tried to exert some willpower, Mike
blackmailed him; the only thing keeping him quiet was regular oral and anal
sex from Ed -- and Mike was smart enough to keep Ed pacified by delivering the
same.  It was a downhill spiral -- and Ed had no escape.  Lou ended up letting
Ed cry himself out on his shoulder -- it seemed to be all he could do -- and
when it was over, Lou found that he'd forgiven his friend; Ed was a mess, and
he undoubtedly had been virtually since he moved into Mike's orbit.  But what
-- if anything -- Lou could do about it wasn't clear...  Lou sent Ed home,
telling him that he would think about it and try to come up with an answer --
but the blackmail thing was a hard nut to crack...

	Things went on basically the same for a few days, then suddenly, the
next Monday, Mike started attacking Lou in public with wisecracks and digs --
probably the worst of which was referring to him as Louise.  It didn't take
much at all to get the general run of Lou's classmates to believe that Lou had
outed himself as gay, somehow; most of them didn't care, anyway, and they took
the prevailing sentiment as gospel without tracing it to its roots.  Lou
figured out right away that the tactic was designed to drive a wedge between
Lou and Ed -- and it was effective, to a certain extent; Ed was more or less
compelled to shun Lou in public.  But Ed went out of his way to ensure that
Lou wasn't shunned in private -- which brought about new issues...

	The issue got discussed fairly quickly inside the team.  "Well, are
you?" Marlene asked Lou.

	"Am I what?"

	"Gay."

	Lou -- Lois, at this point, since it was a late practice -- sat for a
long time before answering.  "It's not that simple..." she muttered.

	"No?"  Marlene cocked her head.  "Come on, Honey -- out with it."

	"I'm pretty sure I'm... not normal," Lou confided.  "I'm not...
gifted... sexually, for one thing.  For another -- well, I'm here, like
this..."

	"Playing dress-up?" Kitty giggled.

	"Is it?" Lou replied.  "Or is this me?"

	Becky opened her mouth -- and closed it before saying anything.
Marlene cocked her head.  "Is this thing getting to you?"

	"Sometimes, I think that Lou is 'this thing'," Lois confided.
"This...  I'm so much more comfortable.  I'm... accepted... like this.  I'm
not accepted as Lou -- not even by me."  He/she scuffed a sneaker on the gym
floor.  "Looking back, I think it's why I wanted to be a cheerleader -- I
wanted to be one of the girls..."

	"What's 'not gifted sexually' mean?" Becky asked.  Lois held up her
thumb and forefinger, measuring maybe three inches between them.  Becky
snorted, then controlled herself, "Oh, dear..."

	"There's so much to it," Lois whispered.  "Except for a little spot
about this size," she held up her hands with the thumbs and forefingers
touching, making an 'O' about four inches in diameter, "I'm all girl -- and
that area is so unimpressive that it might as well be, too..."

	Marlene bit her lip and nodded.  "So we're back to that.  Well, you
make a better girl that some of the creatures we've got stalking the
hallways," she muttered.  "Are you thinking about getting serious about it?"

	"Yeah," Lois admitted.  "A lot."

	"What would your folks say?"

	"Dad would shit a brick," Lois muttered glumly.  "I'd be on the
street, probably."

	"So you'd be a what?" Becky asked.  "A transvestite?"

	"I don't know," Lois replied.  "There seem to be so many definitions.
I... just want to be a girl.  When you see TVs in porn, they look like a girl,
but generally, they have nine inches of... meat.  That doesn't describe me.  I
don't want to... fuck guys.  I don't think I CAN fuck ANYBODY!"

	"Ouch..." Marlene muttered.  "Maybe we should take a litmus test.
Have you ever..."

	Lois just waited.

	"You know," Marlene got up the courage.  "Sucked a guy?"

	"Once," Lois related.  "I was raped, more or less."

	"More or less?" Marlene pressed.

	"More, actually."

	"And?"

	"I don't know what you want me to say," Lois replied.  "It didn't kill
me -- but then it wouldn't, anyway, would it?"

	"Honey, I'm just trying to see..." Marlene whined.  "What about the
other thing?"

	"Which other thing?"

	"Anal sex."

	Lois sighed.  "Once -- same circumstances.  Same incident, actually.
I got pinned, sort of."

	"Omigawd!" Becky husked.

	"Come on, Honey -- you're not answering the important questions,"
Marlene pressed.

	"Have you?" Lois countered.  "Either thing?  I mean, do you realize
what you're asking?"

	Marlene bit her lip.  "I'm TRYING to help..."

	"I think I might like it if it wasn't forced on me -- okay?" Lois
rasped.

	"Okay, that's fair," Marlene placated.  "Have you ever been sucked?"

	"Have you ever been eaten out?" Lois retorted.

	"Okay, yeah, I have," Marlene admitted.  "And maybe I've even touched
a dick or two!"

	Lois shrugged, embarrassed.  "Yeah.  It was good -- but you'd expect
that."

	"What do you think of gay porn?" Kitty asked.

	"Who said I'd seen any?" Lois snarled, then got a grip.  "It kind of
leaves me.  Guys are hot, but guys on guys -- I can't seem to get into it."

	"So..."  Marlene mused.  She looked thoughtful and glanced around a
bit.  "I've seen videos of guys, you know, masturbating.  What would you think
of that?"

	"That might be hot," Lois admitted.

	"When you watch porn, do the girls turn you on?" Kitty asked.

	"Well, if they're excited, it's kind of cool to think about how they
feel..."

	"What was that?" Marlene blinked.

	"You know," Lois muttered.  "What feels good to them -- do they like
being pounded like that?  Are they really orgasming, or are they faking it?
Do they really like anal sex?  Sometimes, from their expressions, you can't
tell if they love sex or hate it..."

	"What about the guys?" Kitty asked.

	"They're amazing, generally.  So...  strong..."

	Marlene was very quiet.  "What's wrong?" Lois asked.

	"I think you're on to something.  What about lesbian sex?"

	"It can be really interesting... hot...  So much more gentle..."

	Marlene glanced at Kitty, then at Becky, and finally at Emmylou.  "You
really need more clothes, Honey, if you're gonna step out as a woman..."

	"So..." Lois blinked.

	"You pass," Marlene told her.  "You're a girl.  We just won't make it
public."

	"Yeah, good plan," Lois giggled, embarrassed.  The giggle got a series
of glances among the other girls -- then they burst out, too.

                         --------------------

	Ed came to practice Thursday night -- the late one.  The gym wasn't
closed; Coach couldn't really do that.  Generally, it didn't matter...

	Lois nearly fell when her eye lit on Ed, sitting up high in the
stands.  "Omigawd!"

	The girls all stopped -- and clustered.  Coach came in, too.  "What's
up?"

	"That's Ed -- Ed Powers.  He's my best friend," Lois whispered.  "He's
here looking for Lou..."

	"Oh," Coach mulled this.  "How bad is it, do you think?"

	"Either he's wondering why I'm not here, or he knows, by now," Lois
whispered.  "God..."  Her hair was up in a ponytail -- maybe that was enough,
but...  She was made up, too, gently -- just lip-gloss, eyeliner, and a little
foundation -- nothing fancy.  "Does anybody know how long...?"  There was a
general shaking of heads.

	Coach decided to take the bull by the horns.  "Mr. Powers?  Would you
come down here, please?"

	Ed came down the bleachers, slowly.  "Yeah, Coach?"

	"This is a more or less closed practice," Coach pressed.  "May I ask
why you're here?"

	"I'm looking for Lou..."  Lois made a point of looking elsewhere, so
her face wouldn't show; tying a shoe seemed to be a good idea.

	"I'm looking for Lou," Ed muttered.

	"This is the competition team," Coach said primly.  "Unfortunately,
Lou isn't on it, since it needs to be all-girl.  But he's probably around here
somewhere -- he comes out to help."

	"Yeah, okay.  Mind if I look for him?"

	"Don't disturb anyone," Coach told him, figuring that telling him no
would just cause more problems.

	"Thanks.  I'll just check the lockers -- some of the guys..."  He
shrugged.  That Lou was persecuted -- and that it had gotten worse as his
supposed sexual orientation got out -- was common knowledge.

	"Good idea," Coach nodded.

	Ed moved off.  Lois turned to watch him leave -- and Ed spun suddenly
and looked her full in the face.  Then he turned and continued on to the boy's
lockers.

	"Whew!  THAT was close!" Marlene yelped.

	Lois was silent -- she didn't think it was over.

                         --------------------

	The rest of practice stunk.  Lois couldn't concentrate and the others
were rattled, too, despite the fact that Ed had apparently gone on his way.
Becky sneaked Lois out the side door and took her to Becky's place for the
changeover, then dropped Lou a couple of blocks from home.

	It didn't work; Ed materialized out of the evening shadows at the foot
of Lou's block.  "I looked for you at practice..."

	"You wouldn't have seen me on the floor," Lou stammered desperately,
"I was..."

	"Yeah I did," Ed said quietly.  "You look good with your hair pulled
back."  He paused a moment.  "Wanna talk about it?"

	"I need to get home for dinner," Lou said carefully, "but, yeah, we
can talk about it.  It's not the only secret we have..."

	Ed chuckled.  "No, it isn't.  Your dad is probably expecting me, since
I stopped here before..."

	"Okay."

	Lou got a grip during supper; his mother put an extra plate on the
table at his dad's urging and everything went fine at the table.  The
butterflies didn't go away, but they weren't wild, at least.

	"So..." Ed asked, when they were in Lou's room.

	Lou turned on the stereo, loud enough to cover them.  "Emmylou broke
her leg -- and that would have killed the team."

	"Who else knows?"

	"Just the girls -- and Coach."

	"You looked... pretty... done-up..."

	"Oh, it was just lipstick and a little eye makeup..."  Lou skidded to
a stop.

	"Yeah, and a bra," Ed retorted.  "Panties?"

	Lou put his face in his hands.  "It's safer to do it up, you know?
Half-measures..."

	"Yeah, I get it," Ed nodded.  "How does it feel?"

	"Ed..."  Lou didn't want to go there.

	"Come on, Lou.  You almost fooled me, out there.  That's a really good
act..."

	"Too good?" Lou asked quietly.

	"Yeah, maybe."

	"I'm not sure..." Lou husked.  "Sometimes, it doesn't seem like it is,
any more."

	"Did I cause this?" Ed asked.

	"You didn't help, but, no -- I think it's been in process a while."

	Ed nodded.  "That night...  It wasn't JUST me, was it?"

	"No," Lou replied.  "Late in the game, I... changed...  I started
getting into it..."

	"Like, gay?"

	Lou shook his head.  "Like a girl."  He looked away.  "This is fucked
up."

	"Yeah."  Ed sat a while.  "How often..."

	"Just for late practice -- and competitions."

	"And the girls?"

	"They all help.  I'm... one of them..."

	Ed grinned.  "Do you do your nails?"

	"For competition."

	"I'd like to see that."

	"Maybe someday."  Lou eyed Ed.  "I know this changes things, but I
don't know how much..."

	Ed shrugged.  "I've got skeletons in my closet -- and you haven't
rattled THOSE bones...  We're still friends..."  He chuckled wryly.  "Maybe I
have a girlfriend."

	"Well, I don't give it up on the first date!" Lou giggled.

	Ed sobered.  "Well, you did, but it wasn't voluntary.  Jeez, I'm
sorry, Lou."

	"It's done with," Lou waved it off.

	"Yeah..."  Ed eyed him.  "No more parties, I guess..."

	"Not with that bastard Mike around, anyway!" Lou flared.  "He's nearly
ruined me at school..."

	"Yeah," Ed nodded.  "Jealousy, I think.  He wants your ass --you know
too much."

	"Everybody thinks I'm gay!  Can you imagine what's gonna happen if Dad
gets wind of this?"

	"Ouch!"  Lou's father wasn't happy with his son -- he just didn't
measure up.  The idea that Lou might be gay had undoubtedly occurred to him --
and there was no doubt of the reaction, should it come out...  "That sucks!"

	"It'll kill him..." Lou gusted a sigh.  "But then, the reality is
probably worse..."

	"I'll cover you.  It'll be okay," Ed promised.  He eyed Lou sidelong,
"But I want to see you done up."

	"Marlene and Kitty want to take me shopping, Saturday..." Lou replied
softly.

	"That's cool...  Okay."  Ed chuckled.  "But if you look hot, you're
gonna have to give some thought to what kind of friend I am -- I might want a
date!"

	"Thanks!" Lou rolled his eyes.  "Next you'll be claiming we have a
relationship!"

	"Well, we do..."

	"Not THAT kind!"

	"Maybe you'd better find me a girlfriend," Ed jibed, "before YOU get
the job!"

	"ENOUGH, already!" Lou was laughing -- and so was Ed -- but the
concern that Ed might be serious hung in the back of Lou's mind.

                         --------------------

	Friday, Lou passed the word that Ed knew -- and was cool.  That got Ed
some attention from the other team members -- and Ed welcomed it.  "If I'd
known putting you in panties would get me chicks," Ed whispered, hanging out
on the steps during lunch, "I'd have bought you a thong!"

	"Jerk!" Lou snorted.  "After all I've done for you..."

	"Yeah..."  Ed sighed.  "I have to go by Mike's tonight."

	"You HAVE to?"

	"You want shit to get even worse?" Ed replied.  "When Mike doesn't get
his way, he gets nasty..."  He eyed Lou sidelong.  "Besides, YOU aren't upping
any..."

	"I don't see any flowers or candy," Lou muttered under his breath.
"Do you think I'm some kind of slut?"

	"Hey, a guy can hope..." Ed grinned.  "Uh oh.  Speaking of Mike...
Gotta go..."  Ed headed off -- clearly because Mike had just appeared up the
sidewalk.

	But Mike blew by Ed and went straight to Lou.  "Don't fill Ed's head
with shit, queer-bait," he told Lou -- obviously for public consumption --
then leaned in and added quietly, "I can always let everybody know what your
ass feels like."

	"I'm not bothering you," Lou muttered.

	"You bother me by living.  I need to know where you are and what
you're doing all the time -- you know too much!" Mike snarled back.  "Things
would be a lot easier on everybody if you'd handle Ed's situation every once
in a while -- and mine, too, for that matter.  But noooo, you have to be a
stuck up bitch..."  Mike walked off.

                         --------------------

	Saturday morning Marlene and Kitty picked Lou up at home.  His dad was
thrilled to death, having decided to treat it as a date.  'Hanging out with
the cheerleaders can only do you good, Son," he told Lou, "EXCEPT when you're
cheering with them!"  Still, he parted with some money for Lou to entertain
the girls with -- which, he'd have been horrified to discover, went straight
to Lois' wardrobe...

	They hit Marlene's and got her dressed and polished and totally done
up, then went to the mall and hit every clothing store in the place.
"Victoria would be surprised to hear she's keeping THIS secret!" Kitty jibed
while Lois was trying on bras.  All three of them giggled.

	So it was that Lois was dressed to the nines in a jean skirt that came
to mid-thigh, a tube top, and platform sandals -- not to mention earrings, a
necklace and a couple of bangle bracelets -- when a familiar voice said,
"Hel--lo Ladies!"

	Kitty looked uneasy, but Ed was as smooth as silk, "Do I know you?  I
think I've seen you around school..."

	"I'm sure you have," Lois played up.  "Lois Wilson."

	"Well, hi!"  Ed stood back and took it all in.  "That's a nice
outfit..."

	"Why, thanks!" Lois murmured.

	"Can I?"  Ed whirled his finger.  Lois spun for him.  "Yeah, very
nice..."  He chuckled.  "You're STILL shorter than me -- even in those!"
'Those' were platform sandals.

	"Like them?" Lois asked, pointing a toe.

	"Oh, yeah," Ed agreed.  "Very nice.  Very, VERY nice!"  Looking at the
others, he asked, "Anyone hungry?  I'm buying -- it's good public relations to
get seen with the cheerleaders, you know!"

	Marlene smirked tolerantly, but Kitty muttered, "Ed, if you ruin
this..."

	"No chance," Ed replied.  "You guys have done wonders -- but I bet she
could use the practice..."

	"He's got a point," Lois muttered.

	"Yes, he does," Marlene agreed.  "Maybe two, even."  She put her
fingers up as horns.  Ed looked scandalized.  "Be warned," she added, "I'm
going to make you pay dearly for your publicity by pigging out in an
unladylike fashion!  I may even have a chocolate shake!"

	"Horrors!" Ed gasped in mock surprise.  "I may have three!  Got to
keep up the old football jock metabolism!"  There ensued a very pleasant
interlude in the food court; Ed got to know Lois as Lois and bask in the aura
of two of the most popular girls in school before going his way and letting
them move on.

	"He WAS cool..." Kitty said afterward while they were disassembling
Lois at Marlenes.  She waved a cotton ball soaked with fingernail polish
remover.  "Very cool."

	"He's been a friend for a long time," Lois said, sighing, "and he's
taken this whole thing pretty well, all in all."

	"So he knows it's serious?" Kitty asked.

	"Yes."

	"Very, VERY cool..."

	Ed called after Lou got home.  "Jeez, but you were hot!"

	"Thanks.  Dad won't want to hear about it, though," Lou cautioned.

	"Yeah, well, he needs to understand that he didn't get what he wanted
-- sorry about that...  I just couldn't believe how..."  Ed lost his ability
to express his feelings, as usual.  "Are you dating?  I know this hard-up
guy..."

	"Yeah, so do I!" Lou giggled.

	"Better not do THAT around your old man!" Ed quipped.  Giggling put
Lou deep into female territory.

	"Yeah, no kidding!" Lou sobered.

	"Well, it's too bad you have to sneak around," Ed husked.  "You were
just... perfect."

	"Thanks."

	"I just had to tell you..."

	"I appreciate the support," Lou replied.

                         --------------------

	Ed took to attending late practice -- which happened exactly three
times before the shit hit the fan...

	They should have expected it, actually -- If Ed wasn't available to
Mike on a particular evening, and it happened more than once, Mike was going
to investigate -- it was as simple as that.  So when Ed was unavailable one
Thursday evening too many, Mike set out to discover why the following Tuesday,
having discovered the pattern.  Finding Ed at the gym wasn't that hard -- but
discovering EXACTLY why took a little bit longer.  Eventually, though, caught
between a rock and a hard place, Ed coughed up the fact that he was there to
see Lois -- and Lois didn't bear close scrutiny...

	Mike caught Lois, Becky and Ed coming out of the gym on Thursday
evening.  "So, Louise?" he asked, planting himself before them.

	"Lois," Lois corrected him.

	"Lois."  Mike smirked.  "Boy, did I call THIS one!  You really ARE a
girl!  Or close enough..."

	"Yeah, well, if I'm a girl, I guess I'm not gay, huh?" Lois snapped.

	"No, but this is even better, isn't it?" Mike returned slyly.
"EVERYBODY will want to hear about THIS!"

	Lois started shaking, but she stood her ground, silent.  Mike probably
wasn't going to settle for that...

	He didn't.  The blackmail material was too good.  Turning to Becky, he
asked, "How many of the cheerleaders are in on this?"

	"Don't answer that!" Lois snapped.  "He's looking to see how many
people he can blackmail!"

	"One's enough, I figure," Mike said, leering.

	"I won't let you do one!" Lois told him.  "Blab all you want!"

	"And what about Ed, here?" Mike replied.

	"Lois, I can't take that kind of heat!" Ed said quietly.  "I'll go
down for the cheerleaders, if I have to, but you know what he has on me..."

	"This is you and me and Ed," Lois told Mike.  "That's it.  If I hear
about you harassing the girls on the squad, I'll blow it open myself!  Do you
understand?"

	"I'll roll over on Ed..." Mike warned.

	"And I'll find SOME way to see to it that you get flattened!" Lois
snapped.  "Just try me!  Take what you can get and be done with it, you
bastard!"

	"Fine," Mike snapped.  Turning to Becky, he snarled, "I'm following
you to your place where 'Lois', here can collect her masquerade outfit -- the
one that makes her look like a boy!"  Turning to Lois, he added, "There's no
need for you to change out of that hot outfit, Honey -- Ed and I both like you
that way -- don't we, Ed?  Ed?"  He pressed home the requirement for Ed's
agreement.

	"Yeah..."  Ed hung his head.  The truth of the matter was that he
liked for the person he'd learned to deal with as Lois to be dressed as a
female -- but Mike was going to use the whole thing -- and them -- that was
clear.

	"Let's go, then."

	In the car, Lois told Becky, "Call everybody -- including Coach.
Cover yourselves.  If it all comes out, you knew nothing at all.  Make sure
nobody gets hurt!"

	"Okay.  Oh, Lois, I'm so sorry!"

	"It's not your fault.  Mike is a total bastard.  He raped me -- and
I'm sure it's going to happen again..." Lois sighed, tears streaming.

	"That's terrible!"

	"What he'll do to Ed is worse -- he'll tell everyone Ed is gay!  Can
you imagine what that will do to him?"

	"Ed's gay?"

	"I don't think so," Lois told her, "but that won't stop Mike!"

	"Oh, God..."

	"Protect yourself.  Protect the girls!"  They pulled up at Becky's.
"Let's run in and just give me my stuff.  I don't know what's going to happen,
but I expect it'll be bad..."  Lois got her Lou outfit, climbed into Mike's
car, and waved sadly at Becky.  Becky ran for the phone.