it was becoming harder to pick up my legs and put one in front of the other . my parents meant for those words to be confusing , it 's a code ! i havent had those nightmares for the past fifteen years , rodney replied a little louder while he got madder . i try to read danas face but i cant . he said , and i got the sense then that they were n't talking to me . `` do you have to be so frank ? '' `` i know what this is , '' kelly grumbled . 