Your crown jewels. Get lost, asshole." Blondie and her friends began to walk off."Wait! I know the secrets! I can -- "Norm tried to cheer him up. "Hey..., sweet guy, you can't just walk up to a woo-man and expect her to lose her heart to little old you just on account of your pretty blue eyes. There's a whole song and dance you gotta go through. Taking them out to dinner, entertaining, and all that bullshit. More trouble than it's worth. Believe me."Bobby was thinking on it later that afternoon.. " It's hard to believe that it has been 25 years. Any regrets?"Lyn suddenly seemed rather sullen and kept her eyes on her coffee cup."Only one."John peaked up and eyebrow and looked at her before answering, "What was it honey?" I'm not proud of it. I hope you can forgive me for what I did." Try me." Ok. It was two and a half years ago. You were at your convention in New York City. I had just found out about Daddy's death. My cousin Jenny came over and I cried on her shoulder. I had called you. "Have you ever had paint on you before?" I shook my head. "Well, I'm not using regular paint, it's sugar based so you can basically eat it," she snickered and then collected herself. "It's easy to wash off." She took my hand in her warm hand and guided me to a part of her flat that had the floor covered with a plastic sheet, a canvas was on it but she moved it and then looked at me with anticipation. "So... should I remove my clothes?" I said in awe. "Sure, um, I'll get the paint," she blushed. Today's program would start at 11:00. The hands on the clock, on the wall, made their way, inexorably, towards the appointed hour. Lila drank, water, juice and coffee, while Aisha kept her IVs going. Both of them noted Manu's frown whenever the IV bag was renewed. While visibly unhappy about it, he did not argue, nor did he directly order Aisha to refrain from changing the bags as they emptied themselves into Lila's veins. Aisha wondered how Lila managed to convince Manu to allow this.