"You're safe here. Relax and get your strength back. You and your family need to pick a whole new back story for you, and then you have to memorize ev...ery detail like you really lived it. We can help, and I bet with your smarts you'll do fine, but it has to be done, and soon." He had a point, and I didn't need to air any dirty laundry in front of the strangers here."Mr. Bell," I said. "Can you and Colleen guide me in how to invent a whole new me? Do you know who to call, what to ask, what I'll. ”“Times change,” she said as she held out her glass. “Everything changes,” she continued. “Natchez has become so large. So has Vidalia. If this wasn’t so low and wet, there would probably be houses all the way out here.”They each finished one glass and part of another before Harold set the basket on the ground and folded the thin tablecloth so that it was three layers thick on the tabletop. “Just as hard, but not as lumpy as a corn cob mattress,” he said as he arranged his coat to provide just. Unaware of the wall behind me, I was pushed back into the wall, and he stretched my arms above my head, kissing me forcefully and biting my lower lip. When he pulled away, my lips were still parted as if he was going to kiss me again, but he whispered, So hot. He held me by the waist and turned me around, nearly shoving me into the wall. Lana was singing in her falsetto, and somehow, I started moaning again just at the sound of her voice. I was so turned on, and I think my moaning triggered. It took a few seconds, but I managed to get mybreathing back under control, and then, out of nowhere, let out a primalscream of frustration. I just wanted to go back to having to deal with myshitty problems of needing to find an apartment and being stuck in a badjob.Sitting there on the verge of tears, something that had become a way toofrequent occurrence in recent days, I was startled by a voice frombehind."Alana, is that you?"The voice broke through the silence so suddenly that I jolted up.