She pulls in the drive. "Ahhh, home sweet home." She takes Spade into the house. "Make yourself at home Spade, I have to feed my horses, and then I'll... fix us some supper, then I'm going to make you a proposition." Spade waits as she goes into her bedroom and changes into blue jeans and a sweat shirt. Laughing, Spade looks her up and down. "Damn, from cop to cowgirl in five minutes. C'mon, I'll help you feed the horses. I want to hear this proposition and why you brought me here, instead of. He's a distraction nothing more. It will end soon and we can get back to the way we were. You just have to let this happen."The words were flowing but I was not able to comprehend what she was saying. I can't give it up? I can't stop seeing him? I have to let this happen? Was she crazy or just deluded? Whatever, this was going to stop. Now!"I'm sorry but you're the one that apparently doesn't understand. There is no us. There is no we. There is only you and him. That's all there is now. You and. Instead she looked a lot like the girl he’d first met at the hotel almost a year earlier – with the exception that she was dressed similarly to Phil instead of a bikini.She smiled at him when he walked into the comfortable room where she sat.“Is this one of the sets?” Phil asked as he looked around. Courtney laughed aloud.“No, this is just a lounge we can use,” she said, standing. Her hug surprised Phil. “Thanks for meeting with me. I really do appreciate it.”“Uh, sure,” Phil said. “I’ve wanted. " Easy for you to tell me that now. We come from different world's, Tina, And I've been trying to pretend I could fit into your world, just like you've been trying to fit into mine by living the way you do. Any time you felt like it, you could have gone back and made up with your folks. If you did that you'd be a part of the aristocratic, upper crust, society again. I'll always be a part of the two pitchers of beer and an extra large two topping pizza for twenty bucks crowd that gathers around.
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